READING AND LIBRARY USAGE HABITS OF THE COLLEGE STUDENTS

Loan, Fayaz Ahmad READING AND LIBRARY USAGE HABITS OF THE COLLEGE STUDENTS. International Journal of Information Research, 2011, vol. 1, n. 1, pp. 1-13. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Emphasis that reading has increasingly been the object of empirical and theoretical investigations for a long past. It has been studied from every possible dimension by researchers of different disciplines like Psychology, Sociology, Education, Media Studies and Library & Information Science. The study aims to investigate the reading and library usage habits of the college students in Kashmir Valley. The stratified random sampling technique was applied to select the students and questionnaire was used as a data collection tool. The results reveal that the college students have positive attitude towards reading and majority of them spend almost two hours on academic and nonacademic reading daily. The students developed reading habits mostly through their self efforts followed up with the help of parents and teachers respectively. The college students prefer to read in morning, at home and in English. The results also depict that students mostly read for education followed by information. The preferred subject interest of students is Religion followed by Science & Technology and Literature respectively. The results further reveal that majority of the students exploit their personal collection followed by college library to satisfy their reading needs. The students face many problems in getting reading materials like restriction on borrowing in libraries, inadequate collection, price hike of reading materials and poor organisation of libraries.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Reading Habits, Reading Purpose, Library Use, College Students
Subjects:	C. Users, literacy and reading. D. Libraries as physical collections.
Depositing user:	Dr Fayaz Loan
Date deposited:	10 Mar 2017 06:54
Last modified:	10 Mar 2017 06:54
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/30961

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