Information Use Pattern of Users of Department of Education in  Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu: A Study

R. Dhivya; K. Vijayakumar

doi:10.51983/ajist-2019.9.1.2625

Authors

R. Dhivya Research Scholar, Department of Library & Information Science, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India
K. Vijayakumar Assistant Professor (SG), Department of Library & Information Science, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51983/ajist-2019.9.1.2625

Keywords:

Information, Annamalai University, Department Of Education, Use Pattern

Abstract

The information is crucial to any or all kinds of humans to updates their data knowledge that might vary from person to person associated with their materials. The library may be a huge repository to produce every kind of data of both past and present to Academicians, Research Scholars, Students and policy manufacturers and also for the public. It will play important role from the school education to a higher education.This study is mainly based on the primary data collected from the Users of Department of Education, Annamalai University, through well designed Questionnaires. Totally 150 Questionnaires were distributed personally to the students of Department of Education, Annamalai University. 125 questionnaires were received from the B. Ed students of Department of Education, Annamalai University. The authors discussed the age wise respondents, Gender wise respondents, Frequency of library visit, Type of documents used by the respondents, Types of search engines used and Types of access system followed in the library user. Among the 125 respondents majority (34.4%) of respondents are using once in a month. It could be seen clearly from above discussion majority (56%) of the users are interested in reading materials.

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