Library users' use and practices on NepJOL in the context of research

Abstract

The thesis entitled “Library users' use and practices on NepJOL in the context of Research” this is a study regarding the use and practices on NepJOL in TUCL, it has taken only three problems are what is the status of educationalists and researches regarding the use of NepJOL, what extra skill and awareness do they need to make the maximum of NepJOL and finally its implementation in Nepal and what is the important role to development quality research in Nepal and so on. These are the main research problem of the study. The main objectives of the study is to find out the use of NepJOL in TUCL and its important of the researchers. This study is significance of the all kinds of researchers of college or university students. It has own limitations like as due to limited sources and time. The researchers only limited with TUCL so, it cannot be generalized other libraries. the study is chiefly based on primary and secondary data of the TUCL. Data analysis procedure is descriptive and analyzed process by using table and chart. The results of the study show that majority of students have the awareness regarding the importance of library but still some of them (35.71%) were ignorant regarding the services of the library. They still use NepJOL for articles and others purpose though majority of them (52.86%) use and OPAC. Regarding the choice of access point, majority of the respondents (40%) preferred using all the possibilities i.e. subject, author, and title. Majority of the respondents (62.86%) know how to search the documents in the shelves while notable numbers of users (30 %) are still not getting the documents in their proper places. Moreover, majority of the respondents (61.43%) have never used the Internet service provided by the library and search the online database searching in the library's website. Some of the respondents (52.86%) think that the OPAC of the library should be well developed while others (47.14%) still opt for the proper management of card catalogue for making effective use of the library resources. Hence, finally in TUCL there are maximum respondents are use NepJOL for research are further study of any kinds of search.