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Awareness of Information Needs and Use of Library Resources and Services among Student-Teachers: A Study

Sujata S. Rajpurkar, Librarian, C/ 113, Dewan Mansion IX, Ambadi Road, Vasai Road (W), Dist. Palghar Pincode: 401202 , Sujata Sunil Rajpurkar , Sushama C. Powdwal

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Indian Journal of Library and Information Sciences 11(2):p 78-87, May-August 2017. | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijlis.0973.9548.11217.10

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As colleges of education train next generation teachers, B.Ed. students are expected to be the catalysts in developing the student community. Hence, cognizing their own information needs and vocalizing them will help them in playing their path showing role as teachers. With this intention, the study on assessment of awareness of information needs and use of library resources and services of student-teachers in Mumbai was conducted. Since awareness of library resources and services helps in fulfilling information needs by the users themselves, the first step in this study was finding out awareness of library resources and services. Further awareness of library services and use was tested through Pearson correlation coefficient.Total 353 sample of student-teachers and 11 librarians from 11 aided B.Ed. colleges of Mumbai were included in the study.It was found that the most predominant information need of the participants was academic preparation. Regarding e-resources like e-journals and e-books there was not much awareness among student-teachers. In addition participants were not able to distinguish between search engines, websites and online databases. The present paper reports the study which explored and assessed the awareness regarding information needs, use of library resources and services among the B.Ed. students in the Education Colleges of Mumbai.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21088/ijlis.0973.9548.11217.10

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Awareness of Library Resources; Information Environment; Information Needs; Information Literacy; Information System; Library Instruction.

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