A Study on Use of Electronic Resources and Services by Users of Pt. Sundarlal Sharma Library, PRSU Raipur, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

This paper aims to propagate the pivotal role of e-resources in the academic environment, particularly focusing on the postgraduate students of the Science stream of Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur. A survey method was employed and a well-structured questionnaire was designed for collecting the data from respondents. This study focused to find out various aspects related to the use of e-resources by the target respondents i.e. awareness level, purpose of using e-resources, time spent by the respondents, etc. This study will enhance the infrastructure and basic requirement of e-resources in the library uplift the teaching and learning environment in the university and offer an insight to policy makers and librarians for better use of e-resources. as a result found that the Total 219 (100%) respondent’s use internet for e- resources and other purposes. The highest 182 (83.11%) of respondents use email followed by 146 (66.67%) use e-books, e-journals 85 (38.81%), e-newspaper clippings 76 (34.70%), e-pg pathshala 64 (29.22%), e-magazines 37 (16.89%), e-thesis 26 (11.87%), e-shodhganga 21(9.59%), e-repository13(5.94%),e-database 12(5.48%), and lowest 03(1.37%)by used is e-shodhsindhu. and The majority of the 163 (74.43%) respondents are satisfied with the use of e-resources,12 (5.48%) are dissatisfied, 19 (8.68%) are very satisfied and 25 (11.42%) respondents don’t know the satisfaction level.