Assessing the Effectiveness and Usage of Library Resources and Services of Einstein Academy of Technology and Management, Bhubaneswar: A Faculty Oriented Study

The present study is conducted to evaluate the library services and resources of Einstein Academy of Technology and Management (EATM), Bhubaneswar. In this stydy the investigator distributed a simple questionnaire among 72 faculty members from all the departments of the college to obtain their satisfaction, views and suggestions about the services, resources and staffs attitudes. Only 60 faculty members returned the questionnaire at a ratio of male and female as 42 and 18 respectively. The detail procedure of study, methodology and research findings is described in the study. It is found that the overall satisfaction level of faculty members towards library services is about 81.66%. The quality of services, adequacy of eresources, and the nature of IT enabled services are comparatively good in the library. But adequacy of print resources is not satisfactory. About 15% faculty members disagree about the adequacy of print resources. One another thing also revealed from the study that only 6% faculty members spend more than 2–3 hours in the library whereas 40% of them visit the library on daily basis.