Library Progress (International)
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 37
  • Issue: 2

Statistical studies on effective use of books consultation and reading habits of agriculture scholar

1Deputy Librarian, Sri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture, Jobner, Rajasthan, 303328, India

2Research Scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641046, India

3Research Scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641046, India, E-mail: rsajpriya@gmail.com

Corresponding Author: K M Krishna, Deputy Librarian, Sri Karan Narendra College of Agriculture, Jobner, Rajasthan, 303328, India E-mail: kmkskn@gmail.com

Online published on 27 December, 2017.

Abstract

The statistical methods have been applied to examine the relationship between library books consultation and reading habits of Agriculture Scholars of S. K. N. College of Agriculture, Jobner (Rajasthan). The chi square study on various attributes resulted much higher than the table values, rejecting null hypothesis and study clearly proved high significance and association with book consultations and category of reading attitude of Agriculture Scholars. The study implies that the effective use of library services depends on books consultation and reading attitude of library members. The chi square ranking study on different attributes implicates that PhD Scholars of general category ranked first by making better use of books which implicates effective consultation of books whereas the SC/ST scholars which ranked first in making adequate number of library membership. The ranking studies of chi square values for yearly published books (2010 to 2014) suggest non significant at table values and does not affects books consultation. The Coefficient correlation study on year wise books consultation and category of Agriculture Scholars revealed very high and significant. The High correlation implicates better association between book consultations with category of Agriculture Scholars.

Keywords

Reading Attitude, Agriculture Scholars, library Books consultation, correlation coefficient, Chi square test, Ranking