User Orientation inn Engineering College Libraries

The growth of information technology has brought about a drastic change in the society. Today information is regarded as primary and vital resource for national development. The emergence of the Orientation program includes educating or instructing the user in topics like introduction to libraries, brief explanation on library techniques and the available information sources. The orientation program helps to create a rapport between the library personnel and the users. Different kinds of library orientation program are in use depending on the type of the user and information to be taught. Some programs are complicated while some are simple with just boards displaying information about opening hours, Library information rules, Library timings and staff maintained. Lecture methods of orientation program may be formal / informal.

Journal of Business Strategy Finance and Management, 2021

This study examines the awareness of the orientation program of the academic library towards the attainment of performance of undergraduates. The research exposes the facts to both students and academic staff on the importance of the library orientation towards understanding the right information usage to aid performance and also create awareness of the image to the social, economic, and educational value of library orientation in Nigerian universities. Five Research objectives were formulated; they are: to know the perception of users about the library orientation programs, to find out how orientation programs are designed towards helping the need of students on proper information utilization, to find out how orientation program impacted to student's academic performances, to examined the challenges occurring in academic library orientation, to formulate solutions to challenges occurring in academic library orientation. The instrument was subjected to face and content validatio...

This is an era of information and communication technology. The library users can access almost all their requirement from internet. But they don’t know how to access information from internet. Even if they know the accessing methods, they don’t know the websites and other details. So, Librarian should obtain the knowledge about the internet and websites and so on. If the librarians familiar with access methods and tools from web is easy to conduct orientation. The important ideology of this paper is to discuss the essentials of user orientation, importance to conduct the orientation, users need and to inform the new resources.Generally, Librarians may follow different techniques to conduct user orientation. Orientation in academic library is very important and it supports to create the awareness among the library users about the library resources.

International Journal of Library and Information Science, 2013

Information is a basic necessity of everybody life. Information is required for anything and everything and can be retrieved from a variety of sources. Libraries are hub for provide the right information to the right people at all times. User studies are an important part of the Libraries. Library and information centers need to be aware of user's information requirements so that they might be able to provide better services. This paper is study of library services and its users in MM Engineering College Library at MM University, Mullana, Haryana. This study examines several aspects of library use, including frequency of visiting the library, use of computer base services in the library. Some suggestions are also provided on the basis of study for enhancing the user satisfaction.

Survey of 229 PG engineering students related to JSPM's Rajarshi Shahu College of Engineering, Tathawade, Pune has been taken to find out the frequency of visit to the Library and the usefulness of information resources. The survey depicts that, 75.56% of respondent students visit the library daily. About 66.48 percent students visit the library to borrow and return the books followed by 41.48% to access electronic journals. Concludes that, library should focus on users orientation programmes to enhance and promote the use of digital resources.

Library Waves: A Biannual Peer Reviewed Journal of Library and Information Science, 2023

To improve teaching and learning, libraries must encourage users to use library materials. Students need orientation and library skills training to maximize library use. Library orientations assist students to grasp reference sections, non-circulatory features, catalogues, and files in reference books and better use of library resources. The researcher found that certain Delta State University (DELSU) students struggle to use library services such as the library catalog, Internet, and shelves. They also travel from bookshelf to bookshelf looking for important library resources, which hurts their grades. The researcher examines why students dislike library resource usage orientation and proposes solutions. Four research questions guided this investigation. This study used the survey research method to obtain empirical data from 1,133 undergraduate library patrons at Delta State University, Abraka. The survey instrument was bifurcated into two sections: personal information and research inquiries. The data was promptly gathered and the duration of the exercise spanned a period of seven days. The analysis of the study employed descriptive statistics, frequency percentages, and statistical mean. The criterion mean was set at 2.50 and the Pearson Product Moment Correlation (PPMC) was applied at a significance level of 0.05. Findings revealed that Delta State University library arranges orientation sessions for undergraduate students, Library orientations play an important role in facilitating professional pursuits and career development, Undergraduate students use a variety of library resources, and Library orientation familiarizes individuals with the means to access various library resources, and Library orientation has a positive effect on undergraduate students' academic performance. The study concluded that the library at Delta State University conducts an orientation program to provide education and guidance to library catalogues, and recommended that it is important to promote attendance of orientation programs and motivate students to utilize library resources, such as films, film tapes, disc records, abstracts, etc.

2019

There are various types of libraries in Sri Lanka. School students mostly use school libraries, public libraries, special libraries and libraries maintained by local authorities for their information needs. After completing schooling, most students seek for higher education opportunities. Generally, libraries in higher education institutions are considered as academic libraries. An academic library is a library associated with a college or university which supports the mission of the institution and the research needs of its academic staff, students and other staff. Academic libraries work together with other units in the university or the parent organization and members of their institutional communities to participate in, support, and achieve the educational mission of their institutions by transferring the core competencies of information literacy; the abilities involved in identifying information needs, accessing information, evaluating, managing, and applying information, and understanding the legal, social, and ethical aspects of information use. Students who enroll in higher education institutions are referred to as newcomers or freshers of that particular institution. There are various definitions for the word newcomer: 'a person who has recently arrived in a place', and'a novice in a particular activity or situation'. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, it defines as 'someone who has recently arrived in a place or recently become involved in an activity'. At presenta large number, nearly 29, 000 of newcomers join public universitiesin Sri Lanka. The main objective of this study is to find out whether the orientation programs conducted by the library are absorbed by the newcomers of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura. This will be achieved by examining the awareness of the library among the new students after the orientation program which also depends on how they focus and give attention to the program. In order to achieve the objectives, the following research questions are formulated. • Whether the students have prior knowledge about any kind of libraries? i!

This study investigated the impact of library orientation on library use in two academic libraries using Federal University Gashu'a (FUGA) library and College of Education Gashu'a (COEGA) library. Library Orientation (LO) is one of the core activity or programme of the academic libraries that entails educating, enlightening, guiding and helping the users to identify, understand and utilize the library information resources and services effectively. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of library orientation on newly admitted freshmen of FUGA and COEGA respectively.The study finds out that library orientation programme has positively impacted knowledge in the student's use of the library and their academic performances. The study also identified some problems that hinder effective use of Library Orientation as; over population, lack of infrastructure, inadequate and trained manpower, lack of instructional materials, limited time allocated to the programme, un-conducive environment and inadequate space. The study concludes that since the library occupies a central place in the achievement of any academic institutions goals and objectives, and this has made library orientation indispensible in the student's achievements and performances, adequate resources should be provided to the programme to ensure that its aims and objectives are realized Based on the findings of the study.

According to Shahi "User Education is a process of activities involved in making the users of the library conscious about tremendous value of information in day to day life to develop interest among the users to seek information as and when they requires" . User education, also called bibliographic instruction (BI), library instruction and library orientation can be defined as instructional programs designed to teach library users how to locate the information they need quickly and effectively. It usually covers the library's system of organizing materials, the structure of the literature of the field, research methodologies appropriate to the academic discipline, and specific resources and finding tools (library catalog, indexes and abstracting services, bibliographic databases, etc.). It prepares individuals to make immediate and lifelong use of information effectively by teaching the concepts and logic of information access and evaluation, and by fostering information independence and critical thinking.

2021

The present paper examined user opinion and satisfaction about library information resources in engineering college libraries. The tool employed for collecting data is a questionnaire. The questionnaire is designed in such a way to collect the data from faculty members of engineering college libraries. Questionnaires were circulated among 890 library users and received 705 responses. The response rate is 79%. It is evident from the study majority 63.54% of respondents are male users. 53.75% majority of respondent users are Assistant Professors. The research found that most respondents visit the library daily, feel that the library had convenient working hours, a library for borrowing books, reference books, and electronic journals. The research highlighted that most of the library users opinioned as somewhat useful about library and information resources. Most respondents respond as satisfied and not availing and the second-highest of users respond as highly satisfied about library and information resources. The Study suggested that engineering college libraries should provide standard electronic databases and regularly conduct orientation programs using resources based on their levels.