UTILIZATION OF LIBRARY INFORMATION SOURCES AND SERVICES IN THE ENGINEERING COLLEGES: A CASE STUDY

The academic libraries are the Heart of any institution. The usage of information sources and services of users is vital for academic library collections, services and facilities to meet their information needs effectively. This paper studies the usage of information sources and services of Engineering college libraries, Secunderabad. For the purpose of the study a questionnaire was distributed to find out information seeking behavior and know the whether the engineering faculty get the services offered by the library staff and the way of obtaining relevant information, and discover the problems facing when seeking for information and determine the suggestions while they are seeking information at engineering college Libraries