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Use of Library and Library Resources in University Libraries of Odisha: A Comparative Study between Students and Faculty Members ABSTRACT The purpose of the study will to investigate students (S) and faculty members (FM) involvement in use of library, library resources, purpose behind using them and satisfaction from the resources in five university libraries of Odisha. The representative samples will be selected based on sample size formula. The representative sample may formed by taking 40% of respondents from each category from each university. The data collected will be analyzed with the help of statistical method and hypotheses test using Chi-Square test. The study will limited to five universities libraries of Odisha that are Sambalpur University, Utkal University, GM University, Ravenshaw University, FM University. The study will give information about availability of required resources, information sources used by them except non-book materials, whereas a significant relationship may found in opinion of RS and FM satisfaction from the library collection. The findings will help the library authorities to understand the pattern of use of their library, purpose of visit, information sources consulted, reasons for use of print and e-resources and satisfaction from their respective collections between Students (S) and Faculty members (FM). Keywords: Library, Library Resources, University Libraries, Odisha, Students, Faculty Members. INTRODUCTION The basic function of any library is collection, storage and dissemination of information, where information is an essential commodity for study, teaching and research (Lewis and Mallaiah, 2014).The prime objective of any university library is to support in learning, teaching and research and the library is considered as the heart of any institute (Konaet al., 2017; Gurikar and Gurikar, 2015). The academic libraries have the responsibility of providing optimum and reliable information resources to different kind of users with varied needs (Peacock and Vecchione, 2020). Library resources help the users to get knowledge for recreation, personal development and inter-personal relationships (Adeoye and Popoola, 2011).The value of the library is always measured by its collection, however the choice of information resources collected by the libraries depends on library budgets and space constraints (Bhatt and Rana, 2011).The library resources are divided into two broad categories, i.e., print and non-print resources. The printed materials include books, print periodicals, magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, theses/dissertations, standards, reference resources, etc., whereas non-printed materials include audio-visual resources and e-resources (Adeoye and Popoola, 2011). Although information sources are acquired in libraries after spending a huge amount of funds, yet it is often not clear about the frequency of their use and the satisfaction from them. Such information is important from the point of view of the librarians or library authorities so as to devise some mechanisms for their optimum use. Therefore, the present study attempts to find out the use of library, use of library resources and satisfaction from the library collection by the students(s) and faculty members (FM) of five university libraries in Odisha. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Library resources are expensive, yet these resources are not used to the fullest extent possible. Percentage of user aware about library resources is very less. Among the few of them those who went to library were only for issue- return of books or simply for reading purpose. Most of them are not aware about other facilities of library service; some of them have no idea about the different type of collection beyond books. Nowadays some awareness programs were taken by the library management and staff for aware the users about the resources and uses of it. The whole research will be about the uses of library and library resources by both students and faculties.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE Lahor and Kumbar (2002) found that faculty members were well aware about the use of library resources. Siddique (2002) found that 69% research scholars visit the library daily and 31% found library collection adequate. Woo (2005) found that 68.8% respondents prefer e-journals, whereas 31.2% respondents use print journals. Busayo (2006) found that 51.5% respondents used the library only for submission of assignment, 56.2% used the library during examinations and 32% respondents used the library to consult particular resources. Dhingra and Mahajan (2007) found that 40% users used 1-2 print journalism a week, whereas 36% users used 1-2 e-journals in a week. 24% and 40% users used print and electronic journals respectively 3-5 journals in a week at PU library. Madhusudhan (2010) found that the research scholars use e-resources for research purpose (47, 94%), followed by for finding relevant information (27, 54%), keeping up-to-date subject information (21, 42%), getting current information (21, 42%) and both teaching purpose and publishing research articles (11, 22%). He also found that 62% of the research scholars accessed e-resources daily as they were time saving (88%), easy to use (78%) and more informative (66%). Khan and Zaidi (2011) found that maximum faculty members (81, 30.9%) used the library to prepare classroom instructions, followed by 74 (28.2%) who used the library for research purpose. Majority of the researchers (84, 91.3%) visited the library for research purpose. They also found that 123 faculty members (46.9%) used current periodicals, 178 (67.9%) used back volumes of journals and 70 (26.7%) used indexing/abstracting periodicals respectively. OBJECTIVES •	To find out the use of library by students and faculty members of five university libraries in Odisha. •	To find out the use of various information resources and purpose of using them by students and faculty members. •	To find out the satisfaction of research scholars and faculty members from the library collection of the selected universities. •	To know about different types of resources available in library. HYPOTHESIS H0 or Null Hypothesis, there is no significant difference in satisfaction level of students and faculty members from the library collection of the universities under the study. METHODOLOGY The study was limited to five universities libraries of Odisha which included Sambalpur Universities (SU), Utkal University (UU), GM University (GM), Ravenshaw University (RU), FM University Survey (FM). Survey method will be taken for the collection of data from the sample including Questionnaires and informal Interview. RESEARCH DESIGN •	Population: Sambalpur Universities, Utkal University, GM University, Ravenshaw University, FM University. •	Sampling Method: Stratified sampling method will applied for choosing the sample. •	Sample: 40% of students and faculty members from each department of the five Universities. •	Type of Data: Study purposes to use Primary as well as secondary data. •	Data Collection: Questionnaire and Interview methods will be adapted for data collection. •	Data Analysis: Data compiled through questionnaire shall be arranged into order of tabulation in number &    percentage and tabulation analysis followed by Pie chart representation.

SCOPE AND LIMITATION •	This study will cover the universities of Odisha. •	This study will cover only for Students and Faculty Members of five Universities of Odisha.

CONCLUSION Uses of library and library resources are very much important for gaining course as well as outer knowledge, which will profitable for the future. Faculty members were well known about uses of library resources, so they will guide the students. This research will show us that how frequently library and library resources may used by both students and faculty members. It will help the library about what types of study material will keep for satisfy the user’s need. We will know that who used the library frequently.

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