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Use of Library Resources and Services by UG Students -A Study of NIT, Kurukshetra

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  • Indian Streams Research Journal

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  • 2013

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The present study tries to know the use of library resources and services by UG Students of NIT, Kurukshetra. On the basis of the streams, 141 students were selected with the help of Stratified Sampling. The study highlights that the students visit the Library mainly for preparation of their course work and assignments (83.68%), examinations notes and tests (66.66%), preparation for workshops (39.71%) and tutorial presentations (16.31%). Maximum students considered that library collections (86.5%) fulfill their needs. Maximum students i.e. 61.7% used photocopying service followed by reference services (37.6%), current awareness services (31.2%) and circulation services (21.3%). Majority of the students visit the library for getting books (80.9%) followed by using periodicals (34.0%), reference materials (31.2%) and to read newspapers (30.5%) as source of information. Among the documentary Sources, first preference was given to text books (70.2%) followed by reference books (43.2%), Newspapers and its clippings (17.7%), Current Journals (14.2%), Back Volumes of the Journals (12.0%) and Thesis/Dissertations etc. (8.5%). The students faced some difficulties to acquire information such as lack of time (32.6%), inadequate library resources (21.3%), numerous sources (28.4%) and lack of suitable services (5.7%) in the library.
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