Use of web based library services: a study among engineering students

The paper examines the various communication services and system based services which are used by the students who are pursuing engineering education in engineering colleges located in and around Chennai. The questionnaire method was adopted to collect data from the respondents. It is found from the study that majority of students are using e-mail service for communication and digital library service to collect information for their academic purposes. Further, it is found that the Bulletin Board and Inter library Loan (ILL) services were used by less numbers of students. It is recommended that the librarians and library staff should create awareness about the communication services such as discussion forum, bulletin board and system based services like information literacy, institutional repository and inter library loan. In this context the services mentioned above will help to maximize the usage of library resources, services and also to share among other users.