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ISSN: 2360-7858 |
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Vol. 7(7), pp. 174–180, September, 2019. ISSN: 2360-7858 DOI: 10.14662/IJALIS2019.090
Full Length Research
Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Village Library’s Users
1Mr. Gur Dev Singh and 2Mr. Anil Kumar
1Librarian, Geeta Institute of Law, Samalkha, Panipat (Delhi-NCR) Email:gurudevsinghgil@geeta.edu.in
2Jawaharlal Nehru Library, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Email:anillgujjar7@gmail.com
Accepted 16 August 2019
The present survey deals with information need and seeking behavior of village library’s users of Goli Village of Karnal District. To identify the purposed of seeking information and preferred information source, a survey on a structured questionnaire based was conducted by the researcher. A sample of 150 users of Goli village library was selected on the purposive sampling technique to collect the required data. Out of 150 questionnaires, a total number of 142 questionnaires was filled out from the villagers who are visiting the village library. As a result found that rather than female respondents, the village library is more used by the male respondents. The study reveals that the majority of respondents are needed for job/recruitment, general knowledge & news update (92.96 percent) and education (84.51 percent) related information.
Keywords: Information Need, Seeking Behavior, Village Library
Cite This Article As: Singh, GD., Kumar, A. (2019). Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Village Library’s Users. Inter. J. Acad. Lib. Info. Sci. 7(7): 174-180
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