State of Library Awareness Service in the IT Era and Users Response: A Study of JNN College of Engineering Library-Shimoga

https://doi.org/10.46610/JOITS.2023.v09i01.002

Abstract

Information service is the emerging motto of all information centers. To tweet the expected level of the current users, the center should do needful to include certain nascent tools and techniques in their operation. JNN College of Engineering Library and Information Center has advanced and up-to-date information of the resources in the library. And to effectively distribute the preserved papers to its users, the library organizer must properly organize the library in the direction of being well-equipped. The head of the library must understand the nature of the library, the nature of the users of the library, and also change the pattern as per the users' likes and dislikes. Since today the mindset of the users' community is completely changed, because of the time constraints and accuracy in the information, users of the library lean towards IT-based services. Not only services, but relevant service awareness is also critical. In that direction, every information organizer and administrator should put an effort into conducting well-planned and required methods of library awareness programs. Keeping in mind massive coverage of all kinds of user communities, an organization must think over common methods and techniques in conducting awareness programs. Especially in the trend of today, massive numbers of the users' community are on social media like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Web page, etc. Keeping these aspects in the mind, information centers of today must be alert and think over the reachable media and implement them in making effective awareness about the library and its activities to the current users' community. This article attempted to make an understanding of how the users’ community is making use of the library resources effectively and in making effective use, what are the efforts put by the library organizer to make awareness of the library to its users are the main goals of the study.