The users are prime aspect of any type of library. The collection developments, planning, decision making, organizing, delivering of information in the library should cantered around the needs of the users. The main motive of this study was to examine and analyse books transactions among users of Bangalore University Library, Bangalore.In the study it is found that total 9280 books issued to patrons of 45 different departments during July 2015 to June 2016.The study will be helped to the library authorities in identifying the nature and needs of user community and to take necessary steps to build library collections and to satisfy user’s requirements

Narayanaswamy, B.V.

Sushma, H.R.

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 419 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  A Circulation Analysis of Books at Bangalore University Library, Bangalore: A Study  Mrs. Sushma H R* Assistant Librarian, Bangalore University,         Bangalore, India sushmahrmlis@gmail.com  Mr. Narayanaswamy B V Assistant Librarian, Bangalore University, Bangalore, India bvnswamymlisc@gmail.com  Abstract The users are prime aspect of any type of library. The collection developments, planning, decision making, organizing, delivering of information in the library should cantered around the needs of the users. The main motive of this study was to examine and analyse books transactions among users of Bangalore University Library, Bangalore.In the study it is found that total 9280 books issued to patrons of 45 different departments during July 2015 to June 2016.The study will be helped to the library authorities in identifying the nature and needs of user community and to take necessary steps to build library collections and to satisfy user’s requirements.  Keywords: Bangalore University, BUL, Circulation Analysis, Checkouts, Karnataka, India 1. Introduction The Library is the heart of the university; University libraries play a vital role in achievement of the aims and objective of the university. Libraries are the essential part of any university to support teaching, learning and research work. Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma (1988) stated, a library is more important than a university, because a library can function without a university, where as a university cannot do without a library[1].Circulation analysis is one of the traditional approaches taken to use studies and collection evaluation in libraries [2]. The results of circulation analyses have been applied to a number of important issues, including evaluating collection acquisition policies; guiding management decisions such as allocating physical space for materials, identifying materials for offsite storage, and allocating funding for materials; and suggesting approaches to deselection[3]. Bangalore University was established in 1964 as a State University and is the third oldest University in Karnataka, India. It has four campuses are JnanaBharathi,Bangalore, Central College, Bangalore, Kolar PG Centre, and Ramanagara PG Centre. It has 6 streams - Arts,  421 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  Science, Commerce, Law, Education and Engineering with 48 Postgraduate Teaching and Research Departments offering a total of 209academic Programs. We have 353 Faculties, 751 non-teaching and 230 technical staff. There are 3 University Colleges, 11 Autonomous Colleges and 606 Affiliated Colleges with a total student strength of about 3.5 lakhs[4]. 1.1 Bangalore University Library The Bangalore University Library came into existence in the year 1966 by inheriting document collections of about 58000 books and several bound volumes of periodicals held by the Central College Library then affiliated to University of Mysore. The Main Library was set up in the year 1975 at JnanaBharathi Campus. However, the Central College Library continued to serve the Departments located there[4]. The main aim of the Library is to acquire, organise, and provide access to various kinds of information sources including books, journals, theses, etc., both in print and electronic forms and provide excellent IT based information services and be partner in the pursuit of academic excellence by varsity students, researchers and faculty. And also to collaborate with other institutions at local, regional, national and international levels for mutually beneficial resource sharing and to maximise the efficiency of library staff, through continuous training, especially to provide IT based services and help in career development. Library is having rich collection about 3, 50,000 Text books & Reference books, 9000 Theses and Dissertations, 226 Current journals, 58000 Bound Volumes, 45 News Papers and 37 Magazines are available in libraries.  2. Objectives of the study The aim of this study is to analyse the information-seeking behaviours of patrons like library resource usage at Bangalore University Library (BUL). The other objectives are:- 1. To know the transactions of books by gender of BUL. 2. To find department wise distribution of issued books at BUL. 3. To identify month wise distribution of circulated books at BUL. 4. To know the most circulated books and patron with most checkouts. 5. To determine the scope of the user study.  3. Literature Review Nazia Salauddin(2015), conducted to study Library User Visit of under Graduate Students at an Engineering College, Central Library, Affiliated by APJ Abdul Kalam University, Lucknow, to  422 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  improve and increase the user visit, the department authorities and library personnel should take necessary steps to provide latest technologies and information resources in both physical and electronic formats at their best levels, so that the students can extend their skills and knowledge to use the information resources and services by the way of library visit[5]. Justin Littman and Lynn SilipigniConnaway(2004), analysed Print Books and E-books in an Academic Research Library. This study compared the usage of 7,880 titles that were available in both print and e-book format at the Duke University Libraries. Although the results of this study cannot be generalized, it does provide information on the use of e-books in one academic research library and implications for e-book collection development. As librarians continue to acquire e-books, circulation analyses will become increasingly important to identify a more complete understanding of e-book usage patterns. Collection development librarians also can use these data to create e-book collection strategies and policies that better meet user needs[6]. E.B. Lateef, A.O, Omotoso and K.A. Owolabi (2013) described in their study was that all the University libraries have books, journals, CD ROMS which are made available to the post graduate students aimed at enhancing effective teaching, learning and research. The knowledge of users education among the post graduate students is however not encouraging. This showed when the respondents claimed they do not visit the library regularly, on availability of current and relevant materials were identified as the major hindrances facing the use of libraries by post graduate students[7]. 4. Methodology The study was conducted based on the books circulation statistics collected which was available in the Bangalore University Library automation website named http://bublib-koha.informindia.co.in:8080/[8]. Data has collected for a period of one year from July 2015 to June 2016. The collected data which was separated based on by gender, department, subject, month, most circulated books and patrons with most checkouts. 5. Scope and Limitations of the study: The limitation of the study is confined to patrons of 45 departments located at Bangalore University, JnanaBharathi campus. The scope of this study is limited for the academic year 2015-2016. 6. Data Analysis and Interpretation In the present study the data was simply put to excel format for executing simple operations like, addition, subtraction, drawing percentage etc. at all the places percentage has  423 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  been drawn up to two maximum decimal places and has also been rounded off at some places to next higher percentile value. 7.1 Gender wise circulated Books Table-1 shows that the gender wise circulated books. Books issued to male gender was 4125books and for female were 5155books during the study. From the study, it can be notice that female gender (55.55%) is generally more majority that indicates that female users are using the library resources effectively compared with male users (44.45%). Sl. No Gender Total No. of Books Issued Percentage (%) 1 Male 4125 44.45 % 2 Female 5155 55.55 %  Total 9280 100 % Table 1 - Gender wise circulated Books      7.2 Department wise distribution of Issued Books Table -2 determines department wise distribution of issued books in the JnanaBharathi Campus Library, Bangalore University, Bangalore. During the study we have found the total 44.45% 55.55% Figure 1-Gender wise circulated Books Male Female 424 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  9280 books issued to patrons of 45 departments. Maximum number of books 1636 (17.64%) were issued to Physics department. Followed by 738 books to botany and 735 books to Kannada department. Minimum number of books issued to the department of Chemistry, Electronic Media and Commerce since they are having their own campus library. Sl No. Department Total No. of Books Issued Percentage 1 Physics 1636 17.64% 2 Botany 738 7.96% 3 Kannada 735 7.93% 4 Economics 535 5.76% 5 History 504 5.44% 6 Zoology 504 5.44% 7 Computer Science 448 4.82% 8 English 360 3.87% 9 Library & Information Science 352 3.80% 10 Sociology 252 2.71% 11 Social Work 248 2.67% 12 Performing Arts 234 2.52% 13 Psychology 231 2.50% 14 Statistics 225 2.42% 15 Geography 219 2.35% 16 Electronic Science 198 2.13% 17 Geology 196 2.11% 18 Bio-Technology 195 2.10% 19 MCA 182 1.97% 20 Political Science 180 1.98% 21 Education 179 1.92% 22 Microbiology 160 1.72% 23 Biological Science 148 1.60% 24 Life Science 138 1.49% 25 Mass Communication/Journalism 70 0.75% 26 Philosophy 65 0.70% 27 Rural Development 61 0.65%  425 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  28 Women Studies 54 0.59% 29 Bio Chemistry 39 0.42% 30 MBA 39 0.42% 31 Environmental Science 37 0.40% 32 Library 24 0.25% 33 Hindi 17 0.19% 34 Mathematics 16 0.17% 35 Visual Arts 12 0.12% 36 Applied Genetics 10 0.10% 37 Sericulture 10 0.10% 38 Finance Section 8 0.08% 39 Administrative Section 4 0.04% 40 Yoga 4 0.04% 41 Urdu 4 0.04% 42 Chemistry 3 0.03% 43 Telugu 3 0.03% 44 Electronic Media 2 0.02% 45 Commerce 1 0.01%   TOTAL 9280 100% Table 2 – Dept. wise distribution of issued books during Study 7.3 Month wise distribution of Issued Books Table-3 shows the month wise distribution of books issued according to the number of checkouts. From the table it can be noted that highest number of books issued in the month of November with the total of 1368 checkouts, February stands the second place by 1287 checkouts, March is in third place by 1275 checkouts and October takes the fourth place by 1250 checkouts during study.    Sl No. Month Total No. of Books Issued Percentage 1 July 70 0.75% 2 August 298 3.21%  426 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  3 September 572 6.16% 4 October 1250 13.47% 5 November 1368 14.75% 6 December 1006 10.85% 7 January 672 7.24% 8 February 1287 13.87% 9 March 1275 13.73% 10 April 916 9.88% 11 May 493 5.31% 12 June 73 0.78%   Total 9280 100.00% Table 3 - Month wise distribution of issued books during Study   7.4Top Most-circulated Books  Table-4 shows the top five ranking of most circulated books according to the highest number of checkouts. From the table it can be noted that highest number of issued book entitled Nuclear physics by Ghoshal S Nfrom S Chand publishers, with 72 checkouts. Followed by Research Methodolgy by Kothari C R, Quantum Mechanics by Aruldas G, Programming in ANSI by Balaguruswamy E and Molecular Specroscopy by Colin Banwell N. 70 298 572 1250 1368 1006 672 1287 1275 916 493 73 020040060080010001200140016001Figure 2 - Month wise distribution of issued books during Study July August September October November DecemberJanuary February March April May June 427 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  Sl. No Title of the Book Author Publisher No of  checkouts Percentage 1 Nuclear physics GhoshalS N S. Chand & company Pvt.Ltd 72 7.75 % 2 Research methodology Kothari, C.R. New Age International Publication 35 3.24 % 3 Quantum Mechanics Aruldhas.G PHI Learning 32 2.96 % 4 Programming in ANSI Balagurusamy E. Mcgraw Hill Education Private Ltd 31 2.87 % 5 Molecular Spectroscopy Banwell, Colin N Mcgraw Hill Education Private Ltd 30 2.78 % Table 4 -Top Most-circulated books 7.5 Patrons with the most checkouts Table-5 has been crafted with the view to give a better understanding of the top five ranking of patrons with the most checkouts of 9280 books issued over 12 months. On the whole we can see there are 81 checkouts belonged to patron of Biological science department, following patrons of Botany and Physics departments. It is also observed that science department patrons are using library resources most. Sl. No   Patron  Name  Department No of  checkouts Percentage 1 V, Ashok Kumar Biological Science 81 7.51 % 2 Raju, Ramya Botany 66 6.12 % 3 B, Pramodh Physics 62 5.75 % 4 N R, Pavithra Botany 56 5.19 % 5 Bist Ganesh, Kumbu Physics 53 4.91% Table 5 -Patrons with the most checkouts   8.  Findings and Conclusion From the study it is found that highest number of books issued to department of Physics and most of the issued books are Nuclear physics by Ghoshal S N from S. Chand publishers, it is  428 International Research: Journal of Library & Information Science | Vol.6 No.3, September, 2016  in top place with 72 checkouts, Research methodology by Kothari C R from New Age International publication takes the second place with 35 checkouts. Maximum number of books issued to patron of Biological science department with 81 books out of 9280. It is also observed that Science stream students are very much interested to use library resources. This study will be helped to the library authorities in identifying the nature and requirements of user community and to take necessary steps to satisfy their requirements. More than demonstrating the usage of books, this study suggests some approaches to collection development. As librarians continue to acquire books, circulation analyses will become increasingly important to identify a more complete understanding of book usage patterns. Collection development committee also can use these data to create book collection strategies and policies that better meet user requirements.  References: 1. Venkata Raman, P. (2004), Information technology applications in libraries,Delhi: EssEss Publications, 86. 2. Mosher, Paul H. (1984), “Quality and Library Collections: New Directions in Research and Practice in Collection Evaluation ”,Advances in Librarianship, Vol.13, pp. 211-238 3. Richard L. Trueswell, (1969),“Some Behavioural Patterns of Library Users: The 80/20 Rule”,Wilson Library Bulletin, Vol.43, No.5, pp. 458-461. 4. http://bangaloreuniversity.ac.in/accessed on 30th July 2016. 5. 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