Status of Management College Libraries in Bhubaneswar Odisha, India a Comparative Study

Bhanu Partap; Payel Saha

doi:10.14429/djlit.39.4.14401

Bhanu Partap CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar- 125 004, India
Payel Saha KIIT Deemed-to-be-University, Bhubaneswar - 751 024, India

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14429/djlit.39.4.14401

Keywords: Management colleges, Management libraries, Internet, Information services, Staff, Collection, Budget, Library status

Abstract

The aim of the present study is to explore the current status of management college libraries in Bhubaneswar region of Odisha, India. A questionnaire based survey has been conducted in the selected management college libraries in Bhubaneswar region of Odisha and tried to evaluate the current status of staff, collection, services, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure, budgetary provision, and other related aspects. The copies of well structured questionnaire have been distributed among the seven management college libraries in Bhubaneswar in the month of January 2019, out of which, five college libraries have been responded positively. It was found that all the responded management college libraries were providing Internet and Wi-Fi services and have adopted open access system to its collection. The library of XIMB has the highest number of books (50,000) in its collection, whereas, the library of RCM has 44,500, ASBM has 26,562, KIITSOM has 20,868 and MIMTS has 5000. It is also found that all the libraries under study were automated their activities and services with the implementation of professional library management software, as well as offering open access to its collection. Based on the findings, the researchers were also suggested that more and more electronic resources must be procured by all the libraries under study as well as IT infrastructure should be regularly enhanced so that users’ satisfaction could be achieved at utmost level.

Author Biographies

Bhanu Partap, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar- 125 004, India

Dr Bhanu Partap is presently working as Assistant Librarian in Nehru Library, CCS Haryana Agricultural university, Hisar (HR), India since July 2013. He has received MLISc. (2005) and M.A. (Mass Comm.) (2008) from Kurukshetra university, and received M.Phil. (LIS) in 2007 from Alagappa university, Karaikudi (Tamilnadu), India. He has passed the exam of ugC-NET in June 2010 and also received the degree of Ph.D. in Library & Information Science (2018) from Kurukshetra university, Kurukshetra. He has about 14 years of professional experience in the field of librarianship. He has published more than 50 articles in the National and International Journals, conference proceedings and edited books and has also written five books.

In current study, he has planned the survey, study and after the survey and data collection, written the full paper.

Payel Saha, KIIT Deemed-to-be-University, Bhubaneswar - 751 024, India

Ms Payel Saha is presently working as Library Assistant in “KIIT Deemed to be university”, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India since July 2017. She has received MLISc. (2014) from Jadavpur university, West Bengal and M.A. (English) (2006) from Ravindra Bharati university, West Bengal. She has passed the exam of ugC-NET in July 2016. She has about 03 years of professional experience in the field of librarianship. She has published more than 10 articles in National and International Journals, conference proceedings and edited books.

Payel Saha has conducted the survey work for data collection. She has visited all the responded institutions personally and collected the data by filling the questionnaires from the librarians or library incharges from the targeted institutions.