ENHANCE THE N-LIST E-RESOURCES USAGE TOWARDS THE GROWTH OF HIGHER EDUCATION SERVICES OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES - A STUDY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGES OF PUDUCHERRY.

Abstract

Changing needs of users and growing interest towards electronic resources forcing librarians and major players of e-resources to come up with new initiatives. It is a major challenge to the higher education to provide quality of the e-resources services. The N-LIST is one of the best e-resources services to the college libraries winch are providing under section 12B/2(f) of the UGC Act status colleges which is dream child of UGC-INFONET and INDEST-AICTE consortium. This is a first initiative taken by these premier bodies to extent e-resources to college libraries at the national level. The main purpose of this paper is to give the best suggestion to improve the quality of the usage of N-LIST                    e-resources services which are finding the problems while accessing the N-LIST e-resources based on the study. A questionnaire method was primary tool which is designed as 5 scaling Likert scale tool from the 10 selected Arts and Science colleges in Puducherry. The total data was collected from 1713 out of 2000 respondents of Faculty and students. . The SPSS 24 and other statistical techniques  has been applied and the inferences have been drawn thereof for identifying the problems of N-LIST e-resources and to provide suggestions for aiming at improving the users’ academic pursuits and learning outcomes.