Why%20Digital%20Libraries%20are%20used%20for%20University%20Education%20:%20A%20Case%20Study%20of%20FEAT%20Library

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Why Digital Libraries are used for University
Education A Case Study of FEAT Library

• Dr. A. Manimekalai
• Asst. University Librarian
• Facylty of Engg. Tech. Library,
• Annamalai University amanimekalai.au_at_gmail.com
• Ms. K.A. Vidhya,
• M.Tech(Comp. Science)-II Year
• Pondicherry University, Puducherry
• Tamilnadu- India

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Why DL

• Changes in Education
• Quest for knowledge among academics
• Teachers to exhibit job-hopping behavior
• Institutions to provide Global Learning
  Infrastructure
• Influence of Online Learning

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Overview

• Digital Library Initiatives in FEAT Library
• Printed E- collection
• Budget allocation
• Productivity of scientific publications
• Digital resource usage
• User satisfaction of the users

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Themes for discussion

• hardware development in the library
• software development in the library
• collection development both in print and e-
  resources
• Productivity output
• user strength and usage satisfaction among the
  users in using the e- resources and
• manpower development in the library with
  computer application.

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Hardware development
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Table-1 Hardware development at the FEAT Library
S. No. Items Hardware 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
1 Server 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
2 Client 8 6 5 12 17 27 35
3 Scanner - - - - 1 1 1
4 Barcode System - - - 1 1 1 1
5 Barcode scanner 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
6 Printer 1 1 2 2 3 3 3
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SW Development

• 1990s self developed package
• 2003 Libasoft
• 2005 DL initiated with Green stone package
• 2007 D Space installed

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Printed Books
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E- Resources
S.No Items In E- Form Total Number
1 Bibliographic Data base for Books 44467
2 E- Books ( Open Source) 150
3 CD ROM - Books 300
4 CD ROM Others-Journals 90
54 E Journals Under Indest UGC Infonet gt600 full text Journals
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E- Journal Package

• Subscribed E- Journals
• Science Direct option- 1
• ACM DL
• Funded By AICTE
• ASCE
• ASME
• IEL Online

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User Statistics of E- Resources
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Year wise Research output of the Faculty
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Expenditure on Print vs Electronic Resources
Expenditure 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Expenditure on Printed Others 750 94.97 1374 93.21 1065 68.35 1355 54.53 315 11.48 869 26.58
Expenditure on Internet e-Journals 40 5.06 100 0.95 493 31.43 1130 45.47 2430 88.52 2400 73.42
Total 790 1474 1558 2485 2745 3269
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Expenditure Print vs Electronic
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User group for analysis of user Satisfaction

• Professors
• Sr. Lecturers
• Jr. Lecturers
• Phd Scholars
• MPhil Scholars

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Themes used for User Satisfaction

• General
• Bibliographic Data base 
• Browsing 
• E- Mail 
• E- Journals
• E- Books 
• E-PublicationProject  

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Usage Satisfaction Rating

• highly useful
• moderately useful
• and less useful.
• The scores assigned are 321 respectively and
  ANOVA test is carried out to know about the
  association between them.

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ANOVA Two way classification for the themes Used
Source of Variation SD DF MS F P-Value F-Critical
Themes worked on 0.470924 5 0.094185 3.551864 0.018456 2.710891
Types of Users 0.159907 4 0.039977 1.507588 0.237794 2.866081
Error 0.530341 20 0.026517
Total 10161172 29
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ANOVA Classification

• to know about the significant difference between
  the users mentioned above in five types.
• The F value for the themes they worked on
  various aspects ( 3.55) is greater than that of
  the F critical Value at 5 significant level (
  2.71), while some users (1.50) which are less
  than the critical F value ( 2. 87). So there is
  a significant variation among the themes they
  worked upon, where as no such significant
  difference exists among the five types of users
  using the library.

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Impact of E- resources at the FEAT Library

• e- resources work as a catalyst and expedite the
  research among the users
• resource sharing is possible through out the
  campus/ departments
• the library and the computer services are being
  integrated and brought revolution in the Faculty.
• The consortium with the INDEST and being a member
  to international and National organizations, the
  FEAT could provide better service for the past 3
  years
• Due to the institution as a member to AICTE, it
  has the privilege of accessing some of the full
  text journals like, ASCE, ASME, and IEL online (
  IEEE, IEE Journals) for free of cost.
• DELNET Is also Playing a vital role in document
  delivery ILL service

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Suggestions for future Development- HW

• to implement a strong network based library and
  to bring effectiveness in research a
  sophisticated and stable hardware components to
  be established in the FEAT Library
• as the databases and the journal articles are in
  .pdf format along with images, nearly 100 KB of
  storage is needed for each page to be downloaded.
  So there is a need for heavy storage/ back up
  medium.
• For example, the FEAT library is subscribing the
  Science Direct and ACM digital Library through
  INDEST consortium. About 600 students used to
  access the internet facility. To prepare a
  subject gate way, after hours a need for heavy
  storage/ back up medium.

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Manpower

• the library professionals should know their
  responsibilities and their vital role to provide
  high quality information in sharing his/ her
  expertise across disciplines using web web
  based e- resources.
• They should work with service motive
• All professionals should try to equip themselves
  to deliver the service in the e- environment as
  library work is knowledge work

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