Evaluation of Time Lag Between Publication of Information and its Use

Abstract

Selection, collection, organization and dissemination are the basic functions to be performed by the library. How much time library takes to disseminate the information to the users once it is published? Such types of time span or flow of information studied in this research. The books classified under Science and Social Science faculties are selected as a population. On the basis of analysis of data it was observed that there is no significance difference between mean time lag in Science faculty and Social Science faculty.

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Neeta Annaji Kene

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Neeta Annaji Kene (2017). Evaluation of Time Lag Between Publication of Information and its Use. International Journal of Library Science and Research (IJLSR), 7(4), 9-14. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-239870