Perspectives And Efforts Towards The N-LIST Access In Arts And Science Colleges Affiliated To Pondicherry University – A Study

Abstract

The role of digital libraries plays a vital role in order to disseminate the accurate information to the user community especially in the field of higher educational institutions in 21^st century. There are n numbers of e-books, e-journals, reference books, inter-linked hypertext documents and other study-oriented material are helping the users to boost their knowledge in the field of education. But is it too much expensive. So that Govt of India encouraging the higher educational institutions with N-LIST progamme for using e-resources with nominal fee who are having 12B and 2(f) status colleges. This Study conducted 10 N-LIST beneficiary affiliated colleges of Arts and Science and revealed that the, age, category, average time spend time in the library, speed of the e-resources and browsers and benefits and extent of user's satisfaction with based on N-LIST e-resources usage. A structured Likert’s 5 scale   technique Questionnaire was distributed among faculty and students of U.G and P.G. Arts of Science colleges in Puducherry. Out of 2000 students 1713(86.65%) responded. The collected data is analyzed through SPSS version 24 and the major findings of the study revealed 84.9% of respondents agreed that they benefitted by using the electronic sources whereas Very less percentage (5.9%)of the users are revealed that  of respondents reported that they did not benefit by using the electronic resources. Based on the findings it is suggested that regular training programmes should be conducted by the college librarians and the users of the N-LIST for creating awareness and optimum utilization of e-resources particularly of N-LIST consortium.