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UGC-CARE
Peer Reviewed
ISSN: 0972-2750
RBU Journal of library & Information Science, V. 23, 2021
Use of College Libraries under Vidyasagar University: a
study through Garrett Ranking technique
Manuscript Received on –
30 th August 2021
Primary Reviewed on –
7 th September 2021
Peer Reviewed on –
6 th October 2021
Accepted for publication
10 th October 2021
Avisek Chaudhuri & Dr Durga Sankar Rath
ABSTRACT:
Avisek Chaudhuri
Librarian, Panskura Banamali
College, Purba Medinipur,
West Bengal
E-mail:
chaudhuriavisek@gmail.com
Dr Durga Sankar Rath
Professor,
DLIS, Vidyasagar University,
Paschim Medinipur, West
Bengal
E-mail:
dsrath@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in
Introduction: To give quality education, the library plays a vital role in teaching and
learning. The library is used mainly by the students, teachers/ faculty members, and
research scholars in higher education institutions. To offer quality services, the library
should have a regular assessment to maintain and to upgrade the quality to meet the
users' needs at the highest level. Library quality assessments can be made with user
feedback as they best judge the quality of the library. It helps identify the effectiveness
of the services provided to library users.
Purpose: The library is the place where the users can think, read or work
independently. There is no other inducement in their decision-making. Their selflearning
ability helps them long way to go. That is why the authors want to categories
the reasons why they visit the library. After analysis the reasons we come to know
which are the solid reasons and in which side library should give importance to
enhance the services.
Research problem: Whenever the users visit the library physically, we can understand
their particular needs, their views on current library services and make them aware of
other services. So, we need to analyze their reasons behind the library visit to know
their views, which helps us evaluate the library services because the library's ultimate
goal is to satisfy the user. Here in this paper authors studied the Reasons for users'
visits to College Library under Vidyasagar University.
Objectives: This study aims to know the users' perception about the reasons behind the
college library visits, and from their perception, we can know the present scenario of
the libraries..
Methodology: The data were collected from 1988 users of 56 general degree College
libraries under Vidyasagar University. The Garrett Ranking technique is applied to
rank the Reasons for users' visits. Garrett's ranking method dictates a change in the
numerical score of the factors. The advantage of this ranking techniques is that the
factors are organized based on their importance from the respondent's point of view.
Findings: The result shows that library staff's behaviour of helping attracts more users
to visit the library. The systematic arrangement of books on the shelf, up-to-date
catalogue of books also the influencing factors for the library visit by the users of the
college libraries under Vidyasagar University.
KEYWORDS:
Library use, Garrett ranking test, College library, Users’ behaviour
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