Use of E-ShodhSindhu Consortium for Engineering Education in North Andhra Pradesh: A Study

Abstract

E-resources are the important alternatives for the users to refer to their core curriculum. Due to the heavy productivity of information from various innovations, subjects, researches and financial complications of the institutions, providing the right hard copy materials to the users at the right time and place is becoming trouble to the library and information professionals in the LIS arena. In that process, e-resources are playing a key role in fulfilling the gap if printed material circulation. The main objective of the study is to know the problems facing students, faculty, scholars and library professionals in the process of using e-resources in the engineering college education. This study can explain and help the peers understand the problems and benefits of e-resource usage in engineering education. The data was collected from three government universities, engineering colleges and six private engineering colleges in North Andhra Pradesh. Compared with government colleges and private colleges are using the e-resources regularly. This study can assist to the academicians, decision-makers to understand the problems and take the required actions to get solutions in a better environment through the use of digital resources in engineering education in North Andhra Pradesh.

Keywords: E-ShodhSindhu, INDEST, N-LIST, AICTE, Digital Resources, Engineering Education, Engineering College Libraries

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