Challenges of Collection Development in University Libraries of Tamil Nadu in the Electronic Environment
Journal Title: International Journal of Library Science and Research (IJLSR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 3
Abstract
Collection management is a more demanding concept, which goes beyond a policy of acquiring materials, to policies on housing, preservation, storage, weeding, and discards of stock. Electronic resource, any product that delivers a collection of data, be it in text, numerical, graphical, or time based, as commercially available resource and a kind of documents in digital formats, that are made available to library users through a computer based information retrieval system. The collection development, specifically university libraries has challenges. In this study, twenty four variables were identified as challenges in the collection development. Out of 520 questionnaires distributed among the LIS professionals working in University Libraries, 373 responded and the response rate works out to 71.73%. These 373 LIS professionals working University libraries of Tamil Nadu expressed their views on these 24 variables. The study does not reveal the synchronized opinion on different type of universities on these challenges. Factor analysis has been employed to reduce the 24 variables in groups. The cluster analysis has also been employed to identify the clustered group of variables. The challenges can be categorized as Management. Policies, Procurement, Collection Development, User, Preservation and IT related challenges.
Authors and Affiliations
C. HEMA, P. NAGESWARA RAO
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