New media and library participatory culture in libraries. 

Libraries are often regarded as the cultural and learning hub of their communities. In order to
deepen community engagement and social inclusion, libraries are adopting new technologies to facilitate a participatory and learning culture.

Librarians are venturing into the mobile app world to raise their libraries’ profiles and to increase the discover ability of their collections in ways that are more engaging than was possible in the past. This often involves representing the library buildings, facilities and collections both physical and digital, to create and promote the library’s identity. Photo based platforms like Instagram and History Pin are being used to enhance the discover ability of libraries’ archival image collections

Libraries have always been places that people go to for information, but, with the explosion of mobile

technology, librarians expect information to come to them. People today are tied to the mobile phone as the center of their information ecosystem, and more and more these phones are providing an interface to nearly all of their informational needs

One of the ways Libraries in the networked world cope  is through the use of social media, in particular Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Flick to be able to connect to their patrons

For example : The New York Public Library used Instagram for a Favorite Authors Knock-out
competition, wherein the community was invited to compare two authors and indicate their
preferred author.