Library Progress (International)
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 32
  • Issue: 2

evaluating academic users’ perceptions of online features: A study

  • Author:
  • M.M. Kalaivani, T. Saravanan
  • Total Page Count: 12
  • Page Number: 163 to 174

Dept. of Library & Information Science, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar (Tamilnadu), India.

*E-mail: sarlib@live.in

Online published on 27 February, 2013.

Abstract

An attempt has been made to examine the academic users’ perceptions about the e-resources that exist in the central library of Annamalai University. Along with the users library visit frequencies their perceptions (Saravanan)3,4 about the selected e-resources have been considered in this study. A few graphical distributions that are related to the hypothetical values as well as sample dispersions also included for better understanding. The formulated research questions in this study include; do the users significantly differ in their library visits?; do the users’ perceptions of e-resources significantly differ?

Keywords

Digital Library, Online features, e-resources