A Study on Users’ Satisfaction of Electronic Resources and Services in the Self Financing Colleges Affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University.

Utilization of electronic resources by the students depends largely on some factors pertaining to the users, especially E resource service and satisfaction. Therefore, the study investigated the influence of e- resources service and satisfaction about the usage of electronic resources by the students in self financing colleges affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. The survey research design was adopted in the study with the questionnaire as a major instrument for data collection. Simple random sampling and purposive sampling techniques were adopted to select self financing colleges and 216 respondents. The study recommended that measures should be taken to increase the level of e-resources service among the students for increasing the usage of available electronic resources in the academic libraries.

Development of Information Skills for Reading Periodicals - A study on Village Library.

Everybody in the world is a reader. A Reader may be an individual or a group of persons who are the end users of any Library. A Reader refers and uses a large number of Books and Periodicals services to satisfy his/her needs and wants. They have much time to read everything by themselves. Hence, this paper attempts to ascertain the development of information skills and the readers’ preference towards Periodicals. For analytical purpose, statistical tools are used. The results reveal the fact that age, education, gender and monthly income do most preferable area of Periodicals in village library. Further there is no significant relationship between monthly time spent and Reader Habits of Periodicals reading.

Information required for e –resources services provided by academic library.

E-Resources have great importance in libraries and amongst the library users. The present study has been undertaken with an attempt to information the usage pattern of electronic resources. The faculties of students are mainly drawn from different parts of affiliated colleges of Barathidasan University and few from other parts of the country which represent truly cosmopolitan population. For that purpose, survey method has been adopted by the investigators, which comprises of administration of questionnaire, observation of the participants, and interview of some of the participants for knowing the opinion of the respondents in respect of information of electronic resources for their academic and research activities. The paper highlights the important survey findings in respect of information and Awareness, Use Pattern and services towards the electronic resources,