Information Retrieving Habits of Art Faculty Members at University of Allahabad,
Allahabad, Utter Pradesh: A Survey
Ashwani Kumar1 and Pravish Prakash2
1Department of Library and Information Science, B.B. Ambedkar University,
Lucknow - 226 025, Utter Pradesh, India
2Tagor Library, University of Lucknow, Lucknow - 226 007, Utter Pradesh, India
E-mail: ashbds.amb@gmail.com, pravishprakashbhu@gmail.com
(Received on 03 May 2011 and accepted on 28 May 2011)
Abstract
This study identifies the information retrieving habits of art faculty members in University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Utter Pradesh including preferred information sources, type of information sources and methods of information access. In this study, questionnaire method was used to collect the information from art faculties of Ambedkar University, Allahabad. The findings of this study show that most of the respondents i.e. 85% stated their method of retrieving information by consulting a knowledgeable person in the concern field. 75% of faculty members retrieve information for preparing lectures. It is revealed that 87 % of the art faculty members used text book. On the basis of survey it is find out that Internet has been almost universally adopted and google.com was mostly used as the search engine for retrieving information by respondents. It is observed that the majority, 81% of the faculty members faced common problem i.e. unavailability of information.
Keywords: Art Faculty, Information Retrieving, University of Allahabad
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