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A study on user attitude measurement towards use of e-resources in Guindy campus library, University of Madras
Kaliyaperumal. K* , Kaliyaperumal. K* Rajasekar. V** Ashok Kumar. N***
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It is evident that many of the Libraries in developing nations like India yet to automate. And only minimum number of libraries are either fully or partially automated, and a countable number of libraries in the country are able to provide e-resources to their users. To maximize the e-resources use in these libraries, the attitudes of the users are to be measured to maximize the usage. As such, this study made an attempt to measure the attitudes of e-resource users in an Indian Academic library like Madras University Library (Guindy Campus Library). This study employed interview schedule method among the 100 users of the library by employing judgment sampling method and the collected data has been edited, coded in the SPSS software for the analysis. By the use of statistical tools ranging from simple percentage method to multidimensional scaling, the analysed data has been presented and interpreted. The study find out the major difficulties experienced by the users of the e-resources along with their expectations to improve the browsing environment and speed of the network. It is also found out that many of the users are unaware of the e-resources access and use. Even among the users who are known to use e-resources required training programmes for their effective and efficient use of e-resources.
Keywords: E-Resources, Attitude Measurement, Multidimensional Scaling(MDS), Psychological distance measurement, Information seeking behavior.
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