Utilization of the Digital Information Resources and Services Provided in the Engineering College Libraries in Karnataka, India

The current analytical survey investigates the utilization and effectiveness of digital libraries in 51 self-financed engineering colleges affiliated to the VTU in the Karnataka, India. The research paper is based on survey of final year BE students and faculty members have been chosen for the study. Questionnaire tool was used to gather data. Findings shows that the Utilization of digital information resources for overall purposes is found to a large extent among respondents with mean value of 2.28±0.89. An impressive 88.9% of respondents are of the opinion that digital library services are superior to conventional library services. The digital library utilization and its purpose are correlated using Pearson correlation and its significant value r=0.489, p=0.000<0.01 proves that user dependency on digital information resources is positively increasing in the respondents’ activities and has an impact on their academic pursuits.