Changing Habits of Library Users in Digital Environment: A Study
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 6
Abstract
In College Library, there are two separate groups have come in front, library staff in one side and other group consists of students and as well as other staff of the Institution. There is a population of mixed age group. The effort of library staff is to bridge between user and information. Library staffs have to understand the demand of its users and have to give maximum effort to help the users as possible. Documents are now coming in electronic form with its traditional forms also. Library users spend much more times in electronic device such as desktop computers, laptops, tablets etc. to make their study material from e-books, e-journals and e-articles as well, rather than simple printed paper books. They rely more on photo copying, scanning etc. through their smart phones in case of paper materials than reading and writing on notebooks as followed by older generation to save their time but in long run they used to in that type of practice. Sometimes, those who are not intended to read on the computer screen, they choose to get a print version in a paper from downloaded article. They spend more time on browsing reliable information according their study material. Long time spending in library reading room is now become declining but changing it towards more time in computer cubicle in library. Nowadays, many technical devices are in use for smooth functioning of a library. Much software is invented to store more and more information, to convert old printed books into digitized one. Libraries are also making over day by day more trendy as its user’s necessity. Libraries have digital repository to cope with their user’s changing pattern of library using behavior. In a day of information explosion filtering the right information is a mammoth task. Few barriers hindered the user to step into the library premises. There is a need also to find out the barriers from the side of users to solve it. Accordingly, there is a need of a research work to know how effective the service is, where a provision of betterment is, how much user is satisfied by the service, what are needs of user so on so forth. In this topic, researcher tries to find out the service quality through a short study collecting answers from few respondents chosen randomly in researcher’s workplace. After collecting data, inferences are drawn related to problem. Drawbacks are identified from any sector through a short survey using proper method also. Good library services save the time of its user, reduce searching time of catalogue, reduce users dissatisfaction, make user more cooperative and help to go towards better service option. So, this study is a systematic trial to solve a problem of user’s changing reading habits and barriers faced by them from changing library pattern also.
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Lopamudra Dey
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