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Providing Usage of Electronic Resources and Internet Services Offered By Tamil Nadu the Self Finance Engineering Colleges: With Special Reference to Villupuram District
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The hypothesis of the paper is to focus on the useage of electronic resources and internet services provided by the Tamil Nadu self finance engineering college libraries. It also highlights the use of e-resources by faculty members and students of self financing engineering colleges in villupuram district. The purpose of seeking information, formal and informal sources used by faculty in searching the relevant information is studied in the paper. It also discuses frequency of their visit to the library and tools used for searching the information.
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