A Study on the Information Seeking Behavior of Readers of selected Agricultural University Libraries of North India

Abstract

Libraries are the soul of any organization and no one is supposed to assume a good education without a good library in the campus. Agricultural universities are the instrumental to provide quality education and emphasis are being given to boost the research and communication. The present study is conducted for assessing information seeking behavior of seven agriculture universities exist in northern part of the country. The present study was done on user based evaluation and problems faced by the readers in different agricultural university libraries. It is noted that most of the readers in CCSHAU, IVRI, IARI, GBPUAT and PAU have graded their libraries very good and excellent. However, they have also floated a few suggestions to further improve the library facilities towards further strengthen the library services.