Perspective Social networking effect in academic libraries: Student Perspectives

The purpose of this study is to identify how minor collision of Social Networks on the enlightening results as shallow by the understudies in the impression of building and drug store understudies. This examination utilized and the way to deal with advance 303 understudies of under-graduate class to distinguish them for the most part inclination of Social Networks, and to investigate the reason, recurrence and area of utilizing Social and express the preferences, and weaknesses, however, using informal academic communities. Data gathered through a self-structured online poll study and analyzed using SPSS software version 23. The outcomes find a striking criticalness of informal organizations on different scholastic variables. This exploration canister gives the inception to educational policymakers to present such conventional informal organization channels for literary purposes. This investigation offers help to focus on the new patterns of culture through research that is under-investigated in past writing. Discoveries from this examination display that understudies, for the most part, favoured WhatsApp for connected companions and felt the preferred position of the interpersonal organization is data to keep contact in 24X7, and they knew about the trouble of informal community in the most significant time killing source. The investigations additionally utilize Hierarchical Clustering in the Utilization of Social Network

UTILIZATION OF LIBRARY INFORMATION SOURCES AND SERVICES IN THE ENGINEERING COLLEGES: A CASE STUDY

The academic libraries are the Heart of any institution. The usage of information sources and services of users is vital for academic library collections, services and facilities to meet their information needs effectively. This paper studies the usage of information sources and services of Engineering college libraries, Secunderabad. For the purpose of the study a questionnaire was distributed to find out information seeking behavior and know the whether the engineering faculty get the services offered by the library staff and the way of obtaining relevant information, and discover the problems facing when seeking for information and determine the suggestions while they are seeking information at engineering college Libraries

Accessibility of Library Resources at KIET Group of Institutions, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India.

This paper highlighted the availability and accessibility of library information resources and services, library user attitude, working hours of library, physical facilities of KIET(Kakinada Institute of Engineering and Technology) Group of Institutions libraries, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. The collection, library membership, students and faculty strength, opening and closing timings, library automation, sources and services offered, and accessibility of online resources are also examined. A well-structured questionnaire was circulated to Nine Hundred and seventy-seven Under Graduate and Post Graduate students to collect the primary data from respondents. Total number of Nine Hundred and Fifteen filled-in questionnaires were acknowledged, showing on the whole response rate of counterproductive to evaluate dedicated library users. The study highlighted that the best part of users visits the library once a week. The study found that most users visit the library for circulation for lending services. The study identified tha

Use of Electronic Information Resources in Engineering College Libraries

The Study examined the use of Electronic Resources in Engineering College Libraries in Krishna District, Andhra Pradesh, India. In this study collecting primary data for the present study, the investigator adopted the survey method. The tool employed for collecting data is questionnaire. The questionnaire is designed in such a way to collect the data from the library users (faculty members) of engineering college libraries. Qquestionnaires were circulated among 890 library users out of whom 705 responses were received representing 79% of the total sample to whom the questionnaire was distributed. It is evident from the analysis that 448 (63.54%) majority of respondents are male users, 379 (53.75%) majority of respondent users are Assistant Professors, 259 (36.73%) majority of respondents visit the library on a daily basis, 631 (89.50%) respondents who feel that the library had convenient working hours. The study found that majority of user’s visits library for borrowing books, reference books and electronic journals. The study found that majority of users use IEEE, SCOPUS, Springer, NPTEL services. The study found that highly satisfied with IEEE facility, DELNET facility, NPTEL Videos and 419 (59.43%) are not availing the facility of CMIE Prowess. Finally the study suggested that the users are not aware of about some electronic information resources, so the engineering college libraries will conduct information literacy programmes on electronic resources