Global Conference on Emerging Trends in

Business Librarianship

Research Paper : Use and Awareness of library of the Student at

Monroe College

Present By

Trupti D Mahida

Librarian, Ambaba Commerce College & MIBM and Deviba Institute of Computer Application,

Sabargam & Research Scholor, Library and Information Science, Veer Narmad South Gujarat

University, Surat, Email: trupti.vansiya4@gmail.com

Jointly organized by

Vikram Sarabhai Library, IIM, Ahmedabad & Indian School of

Business

21 - 22 November, 2017

Introduction

In Present era of internet development of humans or even a nation

is not possible without books. It logically follows that perseverance

and development of any nation or its culture is not possible

without books, and libraries. Now, when preserving culture has

become necessary, once again people have started realizing

importance of books, libraries and education libraries occupy a

very important place in society. Public libraries reform the

functions of creating values among people and other social work.

By using the libraries, a society can attain further development and

it can bring about transformations in intellectual development and

thoughts of human beings.

Importance of Library

A library is a very important aspect in the learning process of

student and human being. The extensive genre of students

literature is an essential part of the growing up process. In

case you have enough resources, it is always advisable to have

an in-house library. If you think you cannot afford a library at

home, you can always visit a public library. Most of the public

libraries are keeping with the times and equipped with

facilities like CDs and even computers.

Importance of Study

It is very important to knowing that Monroe college student

should use library or not? And when they use the library then

which way they have been use it is very important so on this

aspect this study is very important.

Selection of Subject

In the present time it is essential to study the condition and uses of the

College library in the Monroe College at Saint Lucia. For the proposed

study the topic selected for research is ‘Use and awareness of library of

the student at Monroe collage in Saint Lucia, so that one can ascertain

the role and contribution of the College student libraries and judge how

for these libraries have been useful to the society.

Objective of Study

The main objective of the study is to examine of use and

awareness of library of the students at Monroe College.

To studded the facility of the library.

Awareness of the student to use university library in various

steam.

1.6 Research methodology and data collection

In present study we use the primary and secondary data and

derive conclusions after analyzing them. Most of the information

has collected by questionnaires.

The data thus collected will be arranged in a proper tabulation and

tent forms and statistical techniques like mean, frequency

distribution, percentage, cross tabulation etc. We have applied with

the help of software’s like SPSS and Excel and meaning conclusions

has been drowned. For collecting data, sample method has been

used.

Present study i selected 50 students for the study.

Use and Awareness of the Student Library of Monroe College

Present researcher study many focus on use and awareness

of the Monroe college library. 290 students are studying in

Monroe College with master and bachelor degree.

Researcher has taken 50 respondents as random sample

from 290 populations.

Table 2 : Gender wise distribution of the Monroe

College

Gender Frequency Percentage

(%)

Male 15 30

Female 35 70

Total 50 100

Sources: Based on Survey

Table 3 : Age wise distribution of the Monroe

college Student

Age Frequency Percentage

(%)

Below 20 9 18

20 year to 30 year 34 68

31 year to 40 year 7 14

Total 50 100

Sources: Based on

Survey

Table 4 : Last library visit wise distribution of Monroe College

Students

Last Library Visit Frequency

Percentage

(%)

Yesterday 41 82

Last week 9 18

Last Month 0 0

Total 50 100

Sources: Based on Survey

Table 5 : Objective of library visit of student of the Monroe

college

Objectives Frequency Percentage

(%)

Syllabus Books 11 22

Reference Book 5 10

General Books 10 20

others (Please Indicate) 12 24

Syllabus Books & Reference Book 4 8

Reference Book & General books0 2 4

Syllabus Book , Reference Book &

General Book 6 12

Total 50 100

Sources: Based on Survey

Table 6 Degree wise Do you believe that library is one of the

most important parts of during the study? Wise distribution of

Monroe college students

Total Yes No

Dergee

Master 11 0 11

100.00% 0.00% 100.00%

Bachelor 33 6 39

84.61% 15.39% 100.00%

Total 44 6 50

88.00% 12.00% 100.00%

Sources: Based on Survey

Note: Bold figure sows percentage

Table 7: Degree wise and DO you agree that library is the best

place for study during the exams wise distribution of Monroe

College

Total

Yes No

Degree

Master 9 2 11

81.82% 18.18% 100.00%

Bachelor 14 25 39

35.90% 64.10% 100.00%

Total 23 27 50

46.00% 54.00% 100.00%

Sources: Based on Survey

Note: Bold figure sows percentage

Table 8 : Degree wise and Last Library Visit wise

distribution of Monroe college student

Last Library Visit

Total Yesterday Last week

Degree

Master 8 3 11

72.73% 27.27% 100.00%

Bachelor 33 6 39

84.62% 15.38% 100.00%

Total 41 9 50

82.00% 18.00% 100.00%

Sources: Based on Survey

Note: Bold figure sows percentage

Table 9 : Degree wise and Objective wise distribution of Monroe

college students

Objective of library visit

Total Syllabus

Books

Referen

ce Book

General

Books

others

(Please

Indicate)

Degre

e

Master 4 5 4 4 17

23.53% 29.41% 23.53% 23.53% 100.00

Bachel

or

18 11 14 8 51

35.29% 21.57% 27.45% 15.69% 100.00

Total 22 16 18 12 68

32.35% 23.53% 26.47 17.65 100.00

Percentages and totals are based on respondents.

a. Dichotomy group tabulated at value 1.

Note: Bold data shows row percentage

Table 10 : Gender wise and time wise distribution of Monroe college

students

Last Library Visit

Total Yesterd

ay Last week

Gend

er

Male 12 3 15

80.00% 20.00% 100.00%

Femal

e

29 6 35

82.90% 17.10% 100.00%

Total 41 9 50

82.00% 18.00% 100.00%

Sources: Based on

Survey

Note: Bold figure sows percentage

Table 11: Gender wise and Degree wise distribution of Monroe college students

Degree

Total Master Bachelor

Gender

Male 8 7 15

53.33% 46.67% 100.00%

Female 3 32 35

8.57% 91.43% 100.00%

Total 11 39 50

22.00% 78.00% 100.00%

Sources: Based on Survey

Note: Bold figure sows percentage

Table 12 : Gender wise and Stream wise distribution of Monroe college students

Stream Total

Arts Commerce Science

Gender

Male 3 8 4 15

20.00% 53.30% 26.70% 100.00%

Female 11 10 14 35

31.40% 28.60% 40.00% 100.00%

Total 14 18 18 50

0.00% 36.00% 36.00% 100.00%

Sources: Based on Survey

Note: Bold figure sows percentage

Table 13 Age wise and objective wise distribution of Monroe College Students

Objective of library visit

Total Syllabus

Books

Reference

Book

General

Books

others

(Please

Indicate)

Age

Below 20 8 5 2 0 15

53.33% 33.33% 13.34% 0.00% 100%

20 year to

30 year

11 10 11 10 42

26.19% 23.80% 26.19% 23.80% 100%

31 year to

40 year

2 2 5 2 11

18.18% 18.18% 45.45% 18.18% 100%

Total 21 17 18 12 68

30.88% 25.00% 26.47% 17.65% 100%

Percentages and totals are based on respondents.

a. Dichotomy group tabulated at value 1.

Note: Bold data shows row percentage

Recommendations

1) Student suggest that college should provide 24 hours study facility

2) More reference book purchase for various subjects in the library

3) Increase numbers of journals in the library

4) Library needs to private reference book that is book other than text

5) Library should be quite and all workers should be more willing to assist

students

6) Cubicles must require for better self-study in the Library

7) To extend open hours of library

8) Library must be less noisy

9) Lab quality improvement and better computer system

10) Library should be open later time on weekends

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