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Choudhury & Rath: Use of college library …
libraries) are asked to rank the factors according to their
knowledge or preference. Data was collected from all the
56 General Degree colleges under Vidyasagar University.
The judgment sampling technique has been adopted to
select the users from students, faculty members/ teachers,
and research scholars. 20 students from each college, 15
faculty members from each college, and 7 Research
Scholars from the 4 research centers are studied. Total
1988 users' responses were collected; among them, 1120
(20*56) are students, 840 (15*56) are faculty members/
teachers, and 28 (7*4) are Research Scholars. After
collecting the data, the Garrett Ranking technique has
been applied to rank the users' possible reasons for library
visits. Here the method of Garrett ranking technique
facilitates the preferential ordering of the reasons users
visit the college libraries, which will, in turn, throw light
on the decision-making perspectives by the college library
authority.
Percent Position = 100 (Rij – 0.5) / Nj Where-
Rij = Rank given for thei th variable by the j th respondent
Nj = number of variables ranked by thej th respondent
In the above formula, the Percent Position is first
calculated. Then the calculated Percent position is
converted into the score value according to Garrett's
Table. After that, for every factor, the score value of the
individual is added, and after addition, the total score
value and the score of the mean value are calculated. The
highest mean value factor represents the most significant
factor among all factors of a specific problem.
Henry Garrett Ranking Technique
Garrett ranking technique is used to rank the factors
according to the respondent's preference for a particular
problem. The researcher asked the respondent to rank the
various factors involved in a specific problem according to
their preferences or choice. The researcher collected the
information about ranking from the respondent, and by
using the following formula, the rank assigned by the
respondent is converted into the score value.
Table 1: Preference and Ranking of Reason for Library visit by the Users of the Studied College Libraries
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