PAPER ID: IJIM/Vol. 8(I) May 2023/67-74/10

AUTHOR :  Ms. Gurinder Kaur and Dr. Payare Lal

TITLE: PURPOSE AND ADVANTAGES OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA AND E-RESOURCES IN SELECTED UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES OF PUNJAB

ABSTRACT: We are living in Digital Era, and now access to social media tools and the availability of Electronic resources in academic libraries is very common. Because the internet–in particular, the World Wide Web is rapidly displacing the use of external storage, such as floppy disks and CD-ROMs. Due to information revaluation, the Digital Library is growing worldwide. The user needs regarding electronic resource is increasing daily, according to their academic requirement. Nowadays, different types of social media tools and e-resources are increasingly used in library works in academic libraries. The main aim of this work is to find out the Purposes and Advantages of social media and Electronic resources among the government and private university libraries of Punjab. The researcher adopted a descriptive survey research design for this study. The researcher formulated two objectives and two research questions to guide the study. The population of this study comprised 1200 respondents, 600 from government universities and 600 from private universities (400 students, 400 research scholars, and 400 teachers) from 10 selected government and private universities in Punjab. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire developed by the researcher. The study used percentages and proportions as statistical measures for data analysis. The finding revealed that the purpose of using social media and e-resources for all students is to study, and for all teachers is to do the teaching. The majority of respondents also use e-resources to update their subject knowledge, and few of them use them to write articles and research papers. The data also show some advantages of using social media and e-resources in academic libraries.

KEYWORDS: Information Resource, Electronic Information Resources, Postgraduate Students, Purpose, Advantages, Library and Information Science, Social Media, Digital Media.

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