Statistical Analysis of Reading Habits of Passing out Engineering Students: Case Study of NSUT Delhi

Prabhat Kumar Choudhary

Abstract


The book lending service of Central Library, Netaji Subhas University of Technology (NSUT) was computerized in the year 2016 using a digital platform namely, e-Granthalaya from National Informatics Centre (NIC). The computerized Library book lending service provided to the passing out undergraduate engineering students has been studied.  The passing out students during the academic years 2016-2017 to 2020-2021 was admitted in the institute in the academic Years 2013-2014 to 2017-2018 following which the Library service to them has been provided. Library has added 3845 undergraduate engineering students to Library Member Database under different categories namely, BE2013, BE2014, BE2015, 2016, and BE2017 for providing the service. Out of these numbers, 32.8% of students were interested in Library book lending services in their respective passing out years. It has been noticed that in the passing-out year the students were interested in the library service more in their 7th semester than in the 8th semester. With the announcement of nationwide lockdown on 5th March 2020 for 68 days due to the Covid19 pandemic, most academic activities in India came to standstill. With the easing of restrictions and allowing academic activities the Library book lending services are also slowly returning to normalcy. The qualitative impact of the pandemic is much bigger than the quantitative impact on Library services. The objective of the paper is to study the nature of the computerized Library book lending service provided to passing out undergraduate engineering students of NSUT from the academic year 2016-2017 till the year 2020-2021.

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