Role of departmental library in satisfying the information needs of students: A survey of two departments of the Islamia University Bahawalpur

Khan, Shakeel Ahmed and Shafique, Farzana Role of departmental library in satisfying the information needs of students: A survey of two departments of the Islamia University Bahawalpur. Pakistan Journal of Information Management and Libraries, 2011, vol. 12, n. 1. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]

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study aims to investigate the role and importa nce of departmental library in satisfying information needs of students. Perceptions of the s tudents of the Department of Management & Business Administration (MBA) (having departmental library) and the students of the Department of Library & Information Science (LIS) (who did not have a depar tmental library) were comparatively analyzed. The study assesses the satisfaction level of the respon dents from the MBA department with services of thei r departmental library. It also explores the LIS stud ents’ opinion about the need of departmental librar y. A questionnaire was distributed among 150 students of both the departments. The results show that most o f the respondents from MBA department were satisfied with nearly all of the departmental library service s. It was also found that most of the respondents from bo th the departments recommended the provision of online databases and Internet service for their dep artmental library. They also demanded more computers, digital collection and magazines/newspap ers. The respondents from MBA department were found more interested in scholarly journals, multim edia services and audiovisual material than the respondents from LIS department. All of the respond ents agreed that departmental library should be provided in all academic departments of the Islamia University of Bahawalpur.

Item type:	Journal article (Unpaginated)
Keywords:	Dpartmental library; University libraries; Library services; User satisfaction; Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user:	UR Rehman Shafiq
Date deposited:	29 Jul 2015 08:05
Last modified:	29 Jul 2015 08:05
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/25601

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