A Study on Librarian’s Professional Awareness on an open Educational Resource in India

Authors

  • J Jerome Wesly Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu 627012, India.
  • P Balasubramanian University Librarian & Head, Department of Library and Information Science, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu 627012, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/

Keywords:

Awareness, Use, Preferred types, Open Educational Resources, India

Abstract

The paper is discusses about the awareness of Awareness on an open Educational Resource among the library  professionals in India. Due to the pandemic situation, online questionnaires in the Google form were used to  collect the data from the library professionals who are working in higher educational institutions in India. The  impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic situation, totally 270 responses were only received. It resulted that the  among 270 professionals, 41.11% are mentioned ‘Quality and Reliability of Information’ which includes  35.19% of them ‘College Librarian’, 4.44% of them ‘University Assistant Librarian’ and 1.48% of them  ‘University Librarian. 

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Published

2022-04-15

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 1 (2022): Library Progress(International) (Jan-Jun) 2022

Section

Articles

How to Cite

A Study on Librarian’s Professional Awareness on an open Educational Resource in India . (2022). Library Progress (International), 42(1), 108–116. https://doi.org/10.48165/