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

ABSTRACT

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.