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

ABSTRACT

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,