Information seeking Behaviours of Users: A Case Study of Private Higher Technical Education Libraries in Chandrapur District.

Pradip Joshi, Alfred and Nikose, S.M. Information seeking Behaviours of Users: A Case Study of Private Higher Technical Education Libraries in Chandrapur District., 2010 [Preprint]

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English abstract

The paper presents the various attitudes and behaviour in seeking information from engineering college libraries by users .Analysis shows that students ,teachers and scholars have been shown more affection to formal collection in libraries. As well as the information seeking from electronic resources with internet has given more preference.Impact of ICT has done more for users of Engineering College Libraries.Thus electronic print media are popular among users.

English abstract

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	Information seeking behaviour, Engineering college libraries, Users, formal resources, informal resources, ICT uses
Subjects:	D. Libraries as physical collections. > DG. Private libraries.
Depositing user:	PAJ Pradip Alfred Joshi
Date deposited:	21 Jun 2010
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 11:56
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/3794

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