The study was conducted a user satisfaction of engineering college faculty and students: a case study of library and information centre of Gates Institutes Of Technology Central Library, Gooty, Anantapur, A.P. Questionnaire was the main instrument for collecting data. 250 copies of questionnaires were distributed, 216 were returned. The overall response was 86.4% students of different disciplines regarding library resources, services, physical facilities, Internet and computerization of library services etc.

This study throws light on Information seeking Behavior of faculties of Shreeyash Polytechnic, Aurangabad. For this study the survey methods is used. This study covers the various information sources mostly used by the scientist like formal & informal sources. It also covers the purpose of visiting library, methods for up-to-date knowledge & current awareness. It also reveals the difficulties encountered in accessing the information.

One and all agree with this saying that inforamtion is needed in all walkes of life and it is a vital resource for overall development of the civilization. Information plays a significant role in our personal as well as professional life. Information is growing day by day The present paper highlights the investigate Information searching habits of engineers working in the engineering colleges under the Haryana and Punjab universities. The data of survey was collected through a structured questionnaire. The questionnaires were distributed to 500 respondents, working in 20 engineering colleges (25 each) randomly to the faculties member and research- scholar. 310 filled in questionnaires were returned by the engineers with the response being 62%.

The study described the information on prevalence on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the use of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and how it is impacting traditional online learning (e-learning) channels for which students and continuing-education candidates pay money in order to earn certifications. The development of MOOCs, a technology that enables anyone with a computer and Internet access to create and consume learning content, by various firms, increased use of MOOCs in corporations and launch of branded. It suggests that the quality of MOOCs makes them competitive with more traditional learning channels and discusses how free online education could change the U.S. higher education model.

The paper analyses the growth pattern of Higgs Boson literature during 2005-2014 (10 years). The socups database has been used to retrieve relevant data. Total number of publication has been identified as 4359 records contributed worldwide over a period of 2005-2014.The distribution of publications based on the year of production, country wise productivity, document type of the publications, Major subject categories , authors whose contribution is in the maximum level were studied. The organizations contribute Higgs Boson research have also been studied.

This study mainly focuses on adoption of whatsApp in university libraries. WhatsApp is an instant messaging app for smartphones that operates under a subscription business model. It is the proprietary, cross-platform app uses the Internet to send text messages, images, video, user location and audio media messages and voice call. It is a smart phone messenger available for Windows Phone and other smart phones. WhatsApp uses your 3G/EDGE or Wi-Fi (when available) to message with friends and family. Hence if the libraries adopt the whatsApp, they can give the quick services to users. The present study shows the whatsapp adoption in six university libraries for providing its services.

Public libraries confer both direct and indirect social as well as economic benefits to the individuals of the localities in which they are located. Public libraries serve a lot of direct benefit to the individuals via the services provided by library collections, circulation and reference transactions, programming, and electronic resources, etc. Public libraries principal contribution to community culture is through their lending, reference and local history collections. The use of public libraries helps to convert an illiterate individual to a literate one, which is an indirect benefit. The public libraries are also a major employer in their own right. Most public library employees, mainly in the LDCs like our country India, live within or close to their respective localities. They tend to spend their salaries to the surrounding localities. These salaries are injected into the surrounding local economy which indirectly creates a multiplier process in the local economy. It is also another indirect economic effect.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the use of the Internet and related issues among the students of six Engineering colleges of Jalgaon city. A well structured questionnaire was distributed among the 300 students of all the Engineering colleges of Jalgaon city. The response rate was 80%. This study demonstrates and elaborates the various aspects of Internet use such as frequency of internet use, most frequently used place for internet use, purposes for which the Internet is used, problems faced by the users and satisfaction level of the users. It was found that the Internet has become a vital instrument for learning process of these respondents.

Information technology has transformed the whole world into a global village with a global economy, which is increasingly dependant on the creative management and distribution of information. Over the past decades the world has been experiencing significant changes in which the need to acquire, utilize and share knowledge has become increasingly essential. It has a lot of advantages for easy delivery of information around the world.

This paper consists of role of library and librarian in educational development. Libraries are playing very important role in education and an educational institution. It can be considered as important as blood in body. Libraries are a hub of information, Books, journals, magazines physically as well as digitally/electronically. Libraries are the place which gives birth to success. This study shows that how libraries are supportive to educational institutions and helpful in smooth functioning of the institution. Library is only the passive factor. Librarian puts flow in library as librarian is active factor. Library is nothing without librarian. Librarian must be professionally skilled and competent as per the changing paradigm. Librarian is playing the role of facilitator, trainer, and information manager, knowledge, Mangers, Knowledge Navigator, Search Assistant, instructor, Evaluate of information Source.

The terms ‘unified index’ and ‘unified search index’ libraries are getting associated with discovery services. Discovery services are that unified search index to search content from all sources they have access to from a single index. It ia single and simply entry point which searches the single entry point which searches the pre-indexing metadata and fulltext documents. Similarly web scale discovery services have become major potential tools to transform the nature of library system. These services are capable of information retrieval quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote content and providing relevancy-ranked result in the type of individual interface that today’s information seekers expect of information retrieval.

The analyzed result revealed that 1555 citations were cited from 7 theses of Zoology awarded by Chaudhary Charan Singh Agricultural University, Hisar Haryana from the period 2010-2014. The forms wise distribution of citations shows that 88.74 percent were from journals followed by books with 5.09 percent. There were two major forms of literature, which comprise 93.83 percent of total citations.

Modern society is known as information society. The society has recognized that information is most valuable to the success in any field. Information is treated as an economic commodity and the society treat it as the prime mover of the society. Investments in information generation and dissemination are becoming an engine of economic growth. Production, distribution and consumption of information have increased enormously. Information is now an international public good and its benefits extends to all those who can access it irrespective of geographical boundaries and time. It is said that the investment in information generation gives much higher returns that in the production of industrial goods. Institutions of higher education and research through research and development activities mainly bring information generation.

Personality is one among the many factors that act as a source of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction has been identified as an important topic in organizational research due to its many effects on the overall well-being of the organization. Personality is one of the antecedents of job satisfaction. This study aims to explore the level of personality, job satisfaction and routineness or working condition among library employees and the relationship between these three factors. A survey has been conducted in the libraries of the University of Calcutta. The sample consisted of 100 library employees of University of Calcutta. A Questionnaire with three instruments was administered among the library employees to measure their job satisfaction, and five factor model of personality and routineness or working condition. The survey was carried out with the help of scales of personality traits, job satisfaction and routineness or working condition.

Education is the backbone of the society. Stress on special children through the new children and families act will make the special educational system simpler and more improved in the teaching and learning process. It is in the age of ICT scenario, is a great challenge for the teachers, library and information professionals as well as persons involved in the academic professions have to be updated taking to the demand of the students in general and disable children in particular. So, the topic special provisions on better educational facilities through the help of library provisions for disable children is a very good topic to make a full phased analysis.

Disability, as we think that people who are not normal by physical form is a disabled one or disability. Is it right to say the person who is not working like a normal person is disabled one? No, all of us are suffering from disability, whether it is minor or major, so it’s right to say that all of us are not able one; someone is suffering from physical disability, some are visually impaired, some are facing out mental disability, not some of us, it is right to say many of us face mental disability. There are many other types of disability, which we are facing in our society.

Libraries have existed since ancient times , but only in the second half of the 19 the century did library science energy as a separate field of study. With the knowledge explosion in this century and the improvement in the means of collecting ,organ sing ,and making available materials ,two related fields, documentation and information science ,evolved This study is aimed to examine the awareness and use pattern of information sources and services in psychograph examine the awareness and use pattern of information sources and service .This study examine the examines the awareness were selected for this study , method was adopted to collect the data out of 300 questionnaire 265 were received back.

The Study conducted the awareness of social networking sites by the Student of Basaveshwar Engineering College, Bagalkot, Karnataka. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from a respondents of 140 students. The study found that a majority of the students were aware of social networking sites and use these sites for friendly communication. Facebook was the most popular and used social networking site than Yourube and Google+. A number of students visited social networking sites twice a week and always send new friends. Though the students indicated that lack of security and privacy are the main concerns of social networking sites.