Attitudes of law university library users towards the use of Web OPAC in Karnataka

Naik, Devendra; Nikam, Khaiser

doi:10.1108/el-10-2012-0132

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“…It allows multidimensional searches providing as many as access points (i.e. author, title, subject, keywords) as the data element depending upon the ILM software used [1]. It has enabled post-ordinated searches using Boolean operators and other combination of searches [2].…”

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Online Public Access Catalogue (Opac) Usage Patterns Among the Library Users of Odisha: A Study

Rout¹,

Panigrahi²

2018

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This paper is aimed at presenting the results of a survey conducted to determine the usage patterns of OPAC among the library users of higher educational institutions in the state of Odisha. An attempt has been made here to assess usage pattern in terms of awareness, the frequency of use, the purpose of use, search pattern, success in locating items and problems faced while using OPAC. Total 380 questionnaires were selected for the study out of the 393 filled questionnaires received. The data received from the respondents is analyzed using simple percentage approach. The findings of the study revealed that OPAC usage rate is quite low among the library users of Odisha. However, the users who use OPAC most frequently conduct title and author searches. The majority of the respondents indicated that they were moderately successful in locating documents through OPAC. It is also found that most of the users are unaware of the all the facility available in the OPAC and encounter problem while searching. Some of the problems observed from the study includes:difficulty in query formation, maximum time search failure, no scope for spelling correction, inadequate instruction in the OPAC software, OPAC not functioning properly and lack of proper guidance from the library staff. Hence, the study suggested that improvement of OPAC functionality is the urgent need for the effective and proper utilization of OPAC.

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Online Public Access Catalogue (Opac) Usage Patterns Among the Library Users of Odisha: A Study

Rout¹,

Panigrahi²

2018

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“…Among studies dealing with digital technologies and libraries there are also typical usability studies of: desktop versions of web pages (Duncan & Durrant, 2015;Sheikh, 2017), mobile versions of web pages (ChanLin & Hung, 2016;Fung & Chiu & Ko & Ho & Lo, 2016), OPAC (Naik & Nikam, 2014), the Primo search engine (Kliewer & Monroe-Gulick & Gamble & Radio, 2016) as well as the EBSCO Discovery Service (Bonner & Williams, 2016). These studies are typical case studies although, a more general perspective was embraced by Taiwanese researchers (Wu & Hsieh & Chang, 2013) who, using the Delphi method, attempted to determine the criteria considered by the students to be the most significant in assessing a usefulness of a library web page as well as services provided through it.…”

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Students’ Information Needs and Digital Technologies in Academic Libraries

Mierzecka

2018

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Thesis/objective – The topic of this article is the influence of digital technologies on the functioning of academic libraries in the context of their users’ needs. Users’ information behaviors have changed significantly through the influence of these technologies, what can be identified in particular in students’ behaviors. Do far-reaching changes in the way in which users, in case of this article - students, interact with information cause transformations in the functioning and mission of academic libraries? On the basis of literature containing the results of researches conducted around the world an attempt was made to present the way academic libraries react to these changes and how they modify their services and resources. Research method – The first step in responding to the actual needs of users is to conduct research in this area. For this reason, the subject of the analysis in this article were publications presenting research on the users’ (students) needs in the context of using academic libraries. The next stage was to identify the texts in which the use of digital technology was discussed. The analyzed literature was selected from leading journals indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A & HCI), and included articles which were published within the last 5 years (2013-2018) – a period in which digital technologies in most academic libraries in the world were most widely used, making changes caused by them possible to be diagnosed, and which corresponds to the information query. The results of the query contained 328 articles, 80 of them have been analyzed in detail, because they were deemed to contain the results of research on the functioning of academic libraries in the context of the needs and expectations of the students. Results/conclusions – On the basis of the analysis it can be concluded that the widespread use of digital technologies has changed functioning of academic libraries to a large extent, but these changes are not revolutionary. The way of implementing library tasks has changed, but the tasks themselves as well as the mission of an academic library have remained similar. One of the most important postulates for the future is the necessity of far-reaching personalization of the services being offered. The conducted analysis is based on the research presented in the literature, the next planned stage is verification of these conclusions in empirical research.

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Awareness and Usage of Information Retrieval Functionalities Found in the Online Public Access Catalogue by Undergraduates at the University of Venda

Shokane,

Bopape

2023

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Calls for a shift from the Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) to discovery systems craft a need for recognising the information-searching behaviour of the current genre of library users. This study examined the undergraduate students’ awareness and usage of information search functionalities that are embedded in OPAC at the University of Venda (UNIVEN) in Limpopo Province, South Africa (SA). Quantitative data were collected using a Google Form questionnaire, the link of which was e-mailed to the participants to complete. A systematic random sampling method was applied to arrive at 563 respondents. The findings revealed that most respondents rated their level of awareness of OPAC as average. Although some were familiar with OPAC search functionalities, such as author-and-title search entries, and preferred using simple search options on OPAC, there were respondents who were not familiar with Boolean operators, truncation and wildcard symbols, proximity operators, and field search. The major variables affecting their information retrieval on OPAC were poor internet connection and their lack of skills in searching for information from OPAC. This study recommends that librarians promote the importance of using all OPAC functionalities and train undergraduates to improve their awareness and optimal usage of OPAC.

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Attitudes of law university library users towards the use of Web OPAC in Karnataka

Cited by 3 publications

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Online Public Access Catalogue (Opac) Usage Patterns Among the Library Users of Odisha: A Study

Online Public Access Catalogue (Opac) Usage Patterns Among the Library Users of Odisha: A Study

Students’ Information Needs and Digital Technologies in Academic Libraries

Awareness and Usage of Information Retrieval Functionalities Found in the Online Public Access Catalogue by Undergraduates at the University of Venda

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