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Unit 14: Library Profession

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and desired standards; to make suggestions for their improvement; and to develop library
standards.
The entire area of Andhra Pradesh is divided into three subareas viz., Andhra University
area, Sri Venkateswara University area and Osmania University area. The districts of
Chittoor, Kadapa, Kurnool, Anantapur and Nellore come under Sri Venkateswara
University area.
There are 36 engineering college libraries in Sri Venkateswara University area. The
investigator selected 29 engineering college libraries out of 36 by simple random method
to examine the present condition of these libraries.
The users of these engineering college libraries are undergraduate students, postgraduate
students, research scholars and faculty members. There are 10,560 undergraduate students,
460 postgraduate students, 175 research scholars and 2,465 faculty members in these 29
engineering colleges. In total, there are 13,660 users in these libraries. As the population is
large in terms of cost, time and labour involved, the investigator selected a sample of
1,853 users (7.4% of the population) using stratified random sampling.
Nearly half of the colleges (48.3%) were established during the period 2000-2002. The
majority of the colleges (86.2%) are affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.
All engineering colleges are offering undergraduate courses. All engineering colleges are
offering undergraduate courses in Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and
Electronics Engineering, and Electronics and Communication Engineering. A high
percentage of the colleges (41.4%) have undergraduates from 1201-1600.
Librarians
The majority of the libraries (89.7%) have librarians. About three-quarters of the librarians
(75.9%) have PG with the M. LISc., degree. A high percentage of them (41.4%) have the age
of above 35 years. The majority of them (82.8%) are men librarians. A high percentage of
them (41.4%) have 5 or less than 5 years of experience. A high percentage of them (41.4%)
are getting their scales of pay according to UGC. The majority of them (86.2%) are satisfied
with the present job.
Library Working Hours
A high percentage of the engineering college librarians (41.4%) informed that their libraries
are working from 9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m. on working days and 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. on
holidays.
Access System
The majority of the librarians (86.2%) informed that their libraries are following open
access system.
Library Collection
1. More than one-third of the engineering college libraries (34.4%) have 10,000 or
below 10,000.
2. More than one-third of the libraries (34.5%) are subscribing to periodicals from 101
to 150.
3. More than one-third of the libraries (37.9%) have back volumes of periodicals 1000
or below 1000.
4. More than one-third of the libraries (34.5%) have more than 3000 book bank books.
5. All the libraries have CD-ROMs.

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