Resources and Services of the State Central Library in Tamilnadu
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https://doi.org/10.48165/bpas.2023.43.1.6%20Keywords:
State Central Library, Infrastructure, Collections, Staff Approaches, Users' PerceptiveAbstract
The state central Libraries occupy a cardinal place among all the public institutions in the Modern social system. It plays a crucial role not only in the life of a human being but also in the farthest of the whole community. The researcher made an initiative to examine the users' perception of the resources and services available in the library. The researcher constructed a strong questionnaire and personally distributed it to 250 users of the state central library at Tirunelveli. Then the researcher only received 240 fully completed questionnaires from the respondents. Further, the study revealed that the users' perceptive of the resources and services of the library influence the users’ frequency of visits the library.
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