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Unit 1: Concept of Library Science

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Table 4: Subjects

Agriculture has the highest number of respondents visiting the library daily with 38
(55.87 per cent) respondents, followed by humanities and social Sciences with 28 (43.75 per
cent) and 81 (42.86 per cent) respondents respectively. Visiting 2–3 times a week is chosen
in by a higher number in humanities with 28 (43.75 per cent), followed by veterinary and
social sciences with 13 (35.14 per cent) and 67 (35.45 per cent) respondents respectively,
further followed by pure sciences with 196 (34.69 per cent). Once a week visits to the
library is higher among the veterinary group, followed by engineering and pure sciences
with 11 (29.73 per cent), 5 (22.73 per cent), and 126 (22.30 per cent) respondents respectively.
The c 2 value is 84.83 and the degrees of freedom (df) are 20. The value of Probability (p) is
highly significant.

Table 5: Universities

In almost all the universities, daily visitors are the most numerous, except in CSKKVV,
GNDU, Pbi. Univ., JNU, KUK and GJU, in which users prefer to visit 2-3 times a week. The
highest number of daily visitors is in YS Parmar Univ. with 81 (76.42 per cent) respondents,
followed by HPU in which it with 62.62 per cent. The c 2 value of universities x the
frequency of visit to the library is 208.04 and the degrees of freedom are 56. The c 2 value
is very significant. Respondents from all the universities under study are frequent visitors
to the library, except HPU, YS Parmar, DU and MDU.

The result shows that in the time of technological advancement, where the Internet is
easily available to every individual, respondents still visit the library regularly; however,
the frequency of visits differs among respondents. Respondents age 25-30 visits the library
more often than other groups, and form the major part of the research scholars in the
universities. The respondents of all the universities under study are frequent library
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