Electronic Information Sources and Services in T. John Group of Institutions Libraries in Bangalore City: A Study

The Library and information centre is a heart of any higher learning institutions or college campus. The advancement of the information technology and web technology have brought changes to existing information storage and retrieval system such as Digital library, online database, digital repository, virtual library, etc. Libraries have witnessed of tremendous changes in the recent years in terms of their collection and services. Information explosion and diverse information needs of the users required more comprehensive and in-depth library collection. To cater the diverse information needs of the user's libraries are subscribing eresource and offering online information services. Now day's web resources have become part of any academic and research library and information centre. Majority of users are utilizing for the various purpose like teaching, research and updating their knowledge etc. To investigate and explore the use of web resources this study has been conducted. This paper deals with the basic concept of electronic resources, type of e-resources and findings related to awareness, frequency of use, level of use, place of access, time spent on access, level of satisfaction, device used for access, purpose of use, advantage and barriers of eresources. Suggestions have been sought by the users are explored and recorded to improve use and access of e-resources