Abstract

Author(s): Kirana Kumar D

The present decade can be termed as a mobile apps decade, from 2010 onwards tremendous technological changes have been noticed. Developments of mobile apps are one among the major technological areas which touched all most all the general and academic activities of the world. Present paper made an attempt to elaborate, how the Library and Information centres can make use of such mobile apps with special reference to WhatsApp instant messaging app. in the effective rendering of information service to users. The authors also tried to elucidate the practical implementation of WhatsApp instant messaging app in the effective rendering of current awareness service in the Library and Information Centres.