SRELS Journal of Information Management
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 47
  • Issue: 5

Job satisfaction among Non-Government College Librarians in West Bengal: a study

  • Author:
  • Pijushkanti Panigrahi1, Lakshmikanta Jana2
  • Total Page Count: 16
  • Page Number: 569 to 584

1Department of Library and Information Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700 073, INDIA. E-mail: panigrahipk@yahoo.com; pkplis@caluniv.ac.in.

2Narajole College, Narajole, Paschim Medinipur, Midnapore Dt. 721211, W.B., INDIA.

Abstract

This study identifies both satisfying and dissatisfying factors of Non-Government College Librarians in West Bengal. A self-designed Questionnaire containing work environment factors, basic need factors, physical nature of work is administered on the target group of 200 non-govt. college librarians out of a total of 275. Interview procedure is also used to collect data from the respondents, Statistical techniques like, frequency; percentage, mean and chi-square test have been applied to know the extent of satisfaction of the subject. Respondents express their dissatisfaction on some of the relevant issues. It suggests that the college authorities be sympathetic to remove the factors of dissatisfaction for better library services towards its users community.

Keywords

College librarians, Job satisfaction, Satisfaction factors, Dissatisfaction factors