By Ms.Swapna Athavale, Dr. Yojana Patil,

Ms. Manisha Verma & Ms. Swapna Bhide

The Blog being one of the tools of Web 2.0 is very effective for communication now a days.

'Blogs' have evolved along similar lines to other forms of human communication in that they are a product of convenience rather than design.

The term weblog was coined by Jorn Barger 17th dec 1997.

he short form blog was coined by Peter Merholz in 1999.

The act of posting blog is known as blogging and people who maintained the blogs known as bloggers.

Personal Corporate & organizational By genre By media type By device Reverse blog Micro-blogging

Integrated Blog : dtsslibrary Blog (http://dtsslibrary.blogspot.in

Blog for Value Education http://sanskarsarjan.blogspot.com

Blog “Content Page Collection”: Periodicals : Journals & Magazines ( Blog for Faculty) (http://contentpagecollection.blogspot.com

Question Paper Sets (http://questionpaperscollection.blogspot.in

Competition Mania (http://dtsscompetitionmania.blogspot.in)

Blog for Students (http://just4ustudents.blogspot.in

The blog ‘just4ustudents’ includes important pages like

Blog for Teachers Just4U, Teachers! (http://dtsslib.blogspot.in/

Sanskar-Kala-Darpan Pratiyogitae (http://dtss-sanskarkaladarpan1.blogspot.in, http://dtss-sanskarkaladarpan.blogspot.in)

In modern days with the help of advanced technology like Blog one can effectively spread out the Library services. The D.T.S.S college library has set a good example for other Librarians who wish to use Blog as an effective medium to spread the fastest services to its maximum users.

http://www.webjunction.org/documents/webjunction/Blogs_for_Libraries.html accessed on 14/11/13.

Patil, Yojana ( 2013) Best Practices followed in Academic Libraries : with special reference to DTSS college library, UGC sponsored National conference 7 & 8th January 2013, Seva sadan’s college of Education: Ulhasnagar, 515-526 p.