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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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]

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.

Thursday, 12 December, 2013 Mr. A .Venkatanarayana, Dr.M.Doraswamy & Dr.B.R.D.Naick2

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


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


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


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


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


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.


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.


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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