INFORMATION ACCESS PATTERN OF USERS OF ENGINEERING COLLEGE LIBRARIES.

      Аннотация: This study highlights Information Access Pattern of users of engineering college libraries in Kanchipuram District, Tamilnadu, India. It covered the major users who avail the facilities of Kanchipuram district engineering college libraries. For this study, the users are split into two major sections i.e., students and faculty members (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor). It is concluded from the study, there is an association between distributions of respondents in terms of their belonging to minority or non-minority institution. There is no association between distributions of respondents with reference to number of institutions verses number of respondents. There is no association between students and faculty members with respect to their gender. There is no significant difference among the respondents by Age group in engineering college library. There is an association between years of experience with reference to designation.

Ключевые слова: Information need, Information Quality, Dependency factor, Information Resources, Personal library, Industrial visit, Current Awareness Service, Reservation Services, Audio/Video Recordings, Factors Influencing Library