Information seeking behavior of students: A study on ayurveda campus library
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2017-03
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Central Department of Library and Information Science
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The thesis entitled "information seeking behavior of students: A study on Ayurveda
Campus Library" has been carried out with the main objectives:- To find out the
collection development of the library, To find out of existing information services of
library and To identify the users information seeking behavior, needs and demands of
library. The study has been focused along with the Library students who visit there for
information seeking purpose. Some of these are closely related to the personal
characteristics and traits of students, where as some depend on the information centre
and the information systems. Therefore, keeping in mind, the present study is carried out
from forty respondents of campus out of one hundred fifty students.
Related sixteen literatures have been reviewed in the concerned chapter. The study has
focused on the Ayurveda Campus Library. Forty students are selected on this research.
They have been selected randomly to make the research more uniform and valuable. The
researcher has used a set of questionnaires as his basic instruments of research.
The majority finding of the study shows average forty seven percentages of users use
text and reference books; but half past forty two percentage users are inadequate
collection of materials within library. In another hand, average half past thirty seven
percentages of users are mostly familiar with circulation service; half past thirty two
users used reference service, seventy present users spent one hour per day for
information seeking in library.
It is noted that all users used the information for to consult reference materials, to
improve professional abilities, to update knowledge in the field of study and increase the
time spent in library. So that, the volume of these books and documents should be
increased, for effective utilization or familiar of the services, library has to organize
orientation services to their new members/users, the library timing should be increased
and enhancement of the technology and information.
Keywords: Information seeking behavior, Ayurveda Campus Library
Kumari Laxmi Bis
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Information services, Information retrieval
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Bist,Kumari Laxmi(2017).Information seeking behavior of students: A study on ayurveda campus library [Master's thesis, Tribhuvan University ].TUCDLIS elibrary.https//elibrary tucdlis.edu.np/