An In depth Study of Use of E-Resources by the Students of Mechanical Engineering Department of SAL Engineering and Technical Institute, Ahmedabad

This paper focus on different aspects of electronic resources and its services used by mechanical engineering students of SAL engineering and technical institute, Ahmedabad. Paper cover frequency of library visit, places of accessing e-resources, purpose of using r-resources, sources through which students can know about eresources, search strategies adopted by students for information search, and the problems faced by the students while accessing and using e-resources. The study was conducted through structured questionnaires were distributed to 120 students; out of it 100 filled questionnaires were received back. The response rate is 83.33%. After analysis of this paper, it is found that e-resources are most important for the information and knowledge for students.