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Permalink Reply by Siddhartha Shankar Ray on December 28, 2015 at 21:18

Dear Ms. Dimple.

It is quite pleasing to know of your research questionnaire. However, as I personally feel, the target group is active library users or actual readers not the librarians. As I understand, generally speaking,  OUR (means librarians) usage of our own library is sort of routine usage and not necessarily for academic purpose (of course at times, there are exceptions!) I can say from my part, my personal usage of my library resources had always been different from the (1) Teachers who used to take classes, prepare class notes, or (2) Researchers, or  (3) Students. Never-the-less, the reading or information seeking/consulting processes of these three types of groups are not similar in many aspects. For me, my consultation were for (a) better understanding of resources OF MY OWN LIBRARY as a custodian specially for periodical articles and Reports&to keep me updated.(b) for certain specific purpose for which I was INSTRUCTED to collect information/literature & (C) when I personally needed to write some articles or prepare a handout to deliver some lecture. In each case my purpose were different and my consulting practices had been different naturally and above all, all these three attributes were different from those whom we call LIBRARY USERS.

So you please see your topic yet once again and check how you (& your guide because his/her opinion is of great value for your research endeavour) differentiate a Library from a Learning hub and for which categories of users so that you can devise the questionnaire duly tailor-made. 

I hope that you can easily understand what I have meant to say.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Dimple on February 9, 2016 at 7:08

thank you all who comment on my questionnaire

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