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What is Users Study

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Handbook of Research on Inventive Digital Tools for Collection Management and Development in Modern Libraries
It is a systematic effort undertaken to obtain information on the manner and which information is obtained and used by “different categories of user are known as user studies”. It is simply stated that “Study about the user”.
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Impact of Information and Communication Technology among the Physical Education Students in Alagappa University, Tamilnadu
A. Vellaichamy (Alagappa University, India) and R. Jeyshankar (Alagappa University, India)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8178-1.ch020
Abstract
This paper focuses on the Impact of Information and Communication Technology among the Physical Education Students in Alagappa University, Tamilnadu. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire from 214 students of various branches of physical education. The population includes UG students, PG students and Research Scholars. The findings show that Internet has become a significance source for the students as they use internet for education purposes, research work and updating knowledge. A half of the respondents (72.90%) have stated that internet used for E-Mail purpose only. Up to 72% of the respondents have stated that no computer lab is the prime barrier of using ICT Resources. The study suggests that for the optimum utilization of e-journals, consortia's and various other ICT based resources and services and the library should undertake the literacy/orientation programs on regular intervals for their respective respondents.
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