Information Sources and Services in First Grade College Libraries of Chitradurga District: A Survey

College libraries play an important role in the overall development of the college going to the students and teachers. At present, first grade colleges have various post graduation students, and the college libraries are supposed to perform some functions like teaching, research, publications, conservation of knowledge and ideas, services and interaction there depend upon the quality of services provided by college to its students and teachers. This article deals with an availability and use of information resources, service facilities in first-grade college libraries in Chitradurga district of Karnataka. A questionnaire designed for this purpose was framed with components focusing on number of collection and their nature, service facilities and the users of the libraries. Questionnaire was distributed among different first grade colleges in the district, and data collected was analysed statistically. Computer-based service facilities, physical infrastructure, collection and services provided by these libraries have not developed sufficiently.