In the 1970s the first databases were made online. These were bibliographic, references and abstracts of articles in the academic and professional literature. Since, there is remarkable growth in scope of online databases. Online and CD-ROM databases cover a vast range of different types of information.
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Usage of ICT Resources in Academic Libraries With Special Reference to Engineering Colleges
G. Stephen (National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology, India)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3559-2.ch014
Abstract
Academic libraries in India make use of ICT as tools to meet the information need of users who in this context are students and faculty staff. Academic libraries are established to support the objectives of their parent institutions which are to promote teaching, learning, and research. Therefore, academic libraries are expected to serve the students, lecturers, and other members of the academic community. To meet the information need of users, academic libraries provide various services such as user education (orientation/instruction services), inter-library loan/connection services, abstracting and indexing services, referral services, and circulation services. The finding of the respondents problems encountered while using ICT-based resources and services reveal the fact that, out of 732 respondents, 543 (74.18%) respondents stated too few computers with internet and 421 (57.51%) lack of subscription for more foreign journals for their main problems.