Need of E-News Clipping Service in Academic Libraries of Gadchiroli & Chandrapur District of Maharashtra State: A Study

The paper succinctly describes the e-news clipping service, present status of newspaper and e-news clipping service, changing role of service, kind of users and their needs, types of folders of the clippings, and designing of new application software. For this study, survey was carried out of 20 university and college libraries of Gadchiroli and Chandrapur districts. It was found that the conventional newspaper clipping service was available only in 50% academic libraries and non-conventional is not available. The 45% academic staffs, 27% students, 15% research scholars and 13% scientist are the main users of libraries. The need of users observed in various items of clipping service was that 84% for research work, 60% education, 42% teaching, 78% project, 66% extension work, 61% general work, and 93% current knowledge, 86% on line information and 57% desire for back record clippings. It was concluded that being need, use and importance of these services in view of users the status of services declined in academic libraries and there is need to develop e-news clipping services through application software like News-NIC in the interest of users.