Awareness, Access and Use of Digital Resources among the Dentistry Academics of Sri Ramachandra University (Medical), Chennai Ganesan S.1,*, Assistant Librarian, Kaliyaperumal K.**, Librarian- in-charge Madras University Library, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Corresponding author Email id: * ganesans54@gmail.com
**kkperumal3@gmail.com
Online published on 3 October, 2013. Abstract User studies in a library are centred on three domains, viz., awareness, access and use. This study was conducted among the dentistry academics of Sri Ramachandra University Library (Medical), Chennai, with applications of the components of these three domains. A systematic questionnaire was designed and administered among the samples drawn by employing a purposive sampling technique. The results of this study indicate that the awareness programmes of the library are useful to PG students and faculties but not to UG students. On the basis of these results, suggestions have been made to create a single platform that will help access all types of e-resources and frequent conduct of the information literacy programmes on medical literature. Top Keywords Dentistry academics, Digital resource awareness domain, Access domain, Usage domain, Ramachandra medical university library, Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS). Top |