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“TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES IN USER PREFERENCES VIS-À-VIS USED BOOKS: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF
ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING STUDENTS”
Thursday, 12 December, 2013Mr. A .Venkatanarayana, Dr.M.Doraswamy & Dr.B.R.D.Naick
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A.VENKATANARAYANALibrarian & Research Scholar ( Part-time),
Mamata Medical College,Giriprasad Nagar, Khammam -507 002, A.P.
E-mail: venkat.amaram@gmail.com
Dr. M. DORASWAMYAssociate Professor & University Librarian I/c
Department of Library and Information Science(Bishop Caldwell E-resources Centre)
DRAVIDIAN UNIVERSITYSrininvasavanam, KUPPAM – 517425. A.P.
E-mail: doraswamy.msd@yahoo.com
Dr.B.R.D. NAICKAssistant Professor & Librarian I/c,
J.N.T.U. K.,KAKINADA, Andhra Pradesh.
The first and foremost function of any library is the
dissemination of information and circulation of documents.
Especially in developing countries like India lending of
documents serves as a yardstick for dissemination of
information and knowledge. However, it has been
corroborated that the circulation of books for home reading
optimizes the use of the resources of a library. Circulation of
books helps to meet the information inquiries of the users of
the library in their research, publication and instructional
activities.
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V R Siddhartha Engineering College (VRSEC) is the first private
engineering college in the state of Andhra Pradesh, established in
the year 1977, sponsored by Siddhartha Academy of General and
Technical Education, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. This
college has 8 under graduate and 7 Postgraduate courses in
engineering, computer science and Management.
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VRSEC The College Library has 78,945 volumes, 142 national and international
journals, DELNET, AICTE-INDEST consortium, CD-ROM databases, Internet and
Intranet facilities etc. are available in this library
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The problem selected for the present study is entitled “Trends And
Perspectives in User Preferences Vis-à-vis Used Books: An Analytical
Study of Electronics and Communication Engineering Students”, Final
year students of VRSE College, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
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To find out the number of books used by Electronics and Communication Engineering Students.
To know the authorship pattern of circulated books.
To know the chronological distribution of books used by ECEstudents;
To know the geographical distribution of used books;
To prepare the rank list of most frequently used books;
To prepare the rank list of publishers based on the used books published by them
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Most of the authors would be writing books individually in Electronics and Communication Engineering discipline .
Female students go through more number of books than their counterpart male students.
All the students prefer to go through the latest edition books .
Students rely more on Indian Publications.
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The present study investigates the use of books borrowed by Electronics and
Communication Engineering Students of Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha
Engineering College Library (VRSECL), Vijayawada. It is restricted to the use of
books borrowed by final year students belonging to Electronics and Communication
Engineering .
The present study is also limited to the data relating to borrowed books. Data
pertaining to the use of textbooks and reference books consulted in different areas
of the library is excluded from the scope of the present study.
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Selected only undergraduate students of Electronics and Communication
Engineering as sample of first instance.
The total sample consists of 288 final year Electronics and Communication
Engineering students and in respect of whom the researcher could obtain the books
borrowing data of 265 students basing on the entries in their personal borrowing
books. Out of these 265 students, 162 belong to male, while the remaining 103 to the
female student category.
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It is evident from this table most of the male students of ECE are borrowed more number of books than the female students
Each student in electronic and communication engineering used 19 books on an average during the period of his/her study.
Sex
Number of
Students
Number of
books borrow
ed
Percentage
Average number of books borrowed
per student
Male 162 3402 65.87 21
Female 103 1763 34.13 17
Total 265 5165 100.00 19
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It is evident from this table most of the ECE students are borrowed 11 and 15 books during the period of his/her study.
S.NoNumber of
books
StudentsNumber Percentage
1 1 – 5 48 18.11
2 6 – 10 34 12.83
3 11 – 15 50 18.87
4 16 – 20 28 10.57
5 21 – 25 20 7.55
6 26 – 30 36 13.58
7 31 – 35 23 8.68
8 36 – 40 18 6.79
941 and above
8 3.02
Total 265 100.00
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It is evident from this table most of the used books by ECE students are single authored books compared to others.
S.No AuthorBooks
Number Percentage
1 Single2529 48.97
2 Double1421 27.51
3 Three827 16.01
4 More than three 388 7.51
Total 5165 100.00
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It is evident from this table most of the used books in ECE students (88.73% are being published during the period from 1996-2010. That means latest books are used by the students.
S.No YearBooks
Number Percentage
1 Below 1980 29 0.56
4 1981 - 1985 81 1.57
5 1986 – 1990 285 5.52
6 1991 – 1995 619 11.98
7 1996 – 2000 801 15.51
8 2001 – 2005 2271 43.97
9 2006 – 2010 1079 20.89
Total 5165 100.00
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The analysis of this table that the engineering students of ECE heavily depended on books published from India, USA and UK.
Purpose No. of students Percentage
To update the knowledge (general)
41 45.55
For research (project work)
81 90.00
For study (exams) 36 40.00To write papers (articles)
32 35.55
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S.No CountryBooks Cumulative
Number
Percentage
NumberPercent
age1 India
3151 61.01 3151 61.01
2 U.S.A849 16.44 4000 77.45
3 U.K682 13.20 4682 90.65
4 Singapore 123 2.38 4805 93.03
5 Japan88 1.70 4893 94.73
6 Russia79 1.53 4972 96.26
7 New Zealand 47 0.91 5019 97.17
8 Australia31 0.60 5050 97.77
9 Germany17 0.33 5067 98.10
10 Other Countries 98 1.90 5165 100.00
It is evident from this Table most of the used books in ECE are written by Indian authors.
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S.No PublisherBooks
Number Percentage
1 Indian3151 61.01
2 Foreign2014 38.99
Total
5165 100.00
Most of the used books by Electronics and Communication Engineering students (16.23%) are published by “Pearson Education Asia” followed by “Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Limited” (13.03%), “John Wiley and Sons Incorporation” (11.99%), “Prentice Hall of India Private Limited” (7.96%), and “McGraw Hill International Book Company” (6.35%).
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The analysis of the data that 1791 titles and 5165 volumes of books were used by Electronics
and Communication Engineering students during the period of their study. It is also found
from the present study that the book entitled ‘Digital logic and computer design / Morris M.
Mano’ was used more number of times compared to other books. It is followed by
‘Electronic devices and circuits / Jacob Millman’, ‘Electronic devices and circuits theory /
Boylestad Robert’, ‘Introduction to Digital Circuits / Theodore F. Bogart’, and
‘Introduction to Digital Signal Processing / John G. Proakis’ secured 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th
ranks respectively for being used by more number of students respectively. All these titles
account for 17.21 percent of the total borrowing and the 50 titles mentioned in the table
account for 41.88 percent of the total borrowing. Thus only a few titles have been used
frequently by Electronics and Communication Engineering students.
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As the present study is analyzed on the borrowed books by Electronics and Communication Engineering students of Velagapudi Ramakrishna Siddhartha Engineering College Library (VRSECL), Vijayawada, the researcher feels that the studies of similar nature can also be carried out the borrowed books by other departments of this College Library and other well established college Libraries for more authenticity and comparative analysis before drawing valid generalizations and conclusions for optimal use of library resources by the students. Studies of analogous type can also be undertaken on the use of books by faculty members of this College Library and other well established college libraries in India
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