A survey on students' familiarity and use of library services in Karaj Islamic Azad University
Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studiesshokouh tafreshi 1 , Solmaz Derogar Kalkhoran 2
1 - Faculty Member of Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch
2 - MLIS in library and information science. Iran, Tehran University of Medical science;
Keywords: Students, Islamic Azad University, Academic Libraries, usage, Familiarity with library, Karaj Branch,
Abstract :
This research, is done by using survey-descriptive method and aims to study students' familiarity and use of library services in Karaj Islamic Azad University. The research population is composed of 400 students out of 20000 students and after distributing the questionnaire (including 17 closed and 2 open-ended questions) as data collection tool, among them, 369 ones were returned. The findings of the research demonstrate that there is a meaningful reverse co-relation between the students' familiarity with the libraries and the library services and resources (R = 4.054), but there is a meaningful co-relation between their unfamiliarity with the library departments and using accessible library resources (R = 0.0507). There is also meaningful co-relation between students' expectation rate (R = 0.615) expectations and knowing how to use the library. The findings also indicate that 63.1 percent of students are the library members. 71.8 percent of students use the library for reading needed textbooks. The library resources are not up-to-date and there is also lack of library resources (57 percent). The students are not skillful in using library sources (49 percent). The students need to take part in some courses to learn how to use library (75.3 percent). The students make use of computer for searching (61.8 percent). The students are not urged by the professors to use the library resources (58 percent). It is notable that research hypothesis has not been confirmed. Finally some suggestions have been offered for the present and the future.
