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54526 Shailesh Ranjan and Rakesh Khare / Elixir Library Science 144 (2020) 54526-54531 Available online at www.elixirpublishers.com (Elixir International Journal) Library Science Elixir Library Science 144 (2020) 54526-54531 Library and Information Services Provided by the Library of Patna College, Patna and the Library of Science College, Patna: A Comparative Study Shailesh Ranjan and Rakesh Khare RNTU, Bhopal ABSTRACT ARTICLE INFO The basic function of the academic library is to assist and support the study and teaching Article history: that goes on in the academic institution. The developing countries need to provide Received 9 June 2020; various services in the college libraries in order to sustain the development. The major Received in revised form: aim of comparative research is to identify similarities and differences between social 30 June 2020; entities. Comparative research seeks to compare and contrast nations, cultures, societies, Accepted: 10 July 2020; and institutions. The data was collected from Patna College, Patna and Science College, Patna. Both the libraries have shortage of professional manpower, physical space & Keywords amenities. Even though Patna College, Patna has its own library building, space is not Information Services, sufficient for the users. There is no provision of separate library building in Science Reference Services, College, Patna. Both the libraries should provide ergonomic reading area for their users. CAS, The budget of both the libraries is not adequate. From the above survey it also found that, SDI. with the limited resources available, both the libraries are providing traditional service to the good extent, but lacking in use of information and communication technologies, only circulation and catalogue are automated. There are no e-resources like e-books, e- journals, online databases available to the users of these libraries. © 2020 Elixir All rights reserved. 1. Introduction It identifies, evaluates, procures, processes, organises and The proposed study is based on an extensive comparative then makes these learning resources available to the faculties study of the library and information services provided by two and students for their teaching, learning and research different college libraries: The Library of Patna College, assignments. This library is functioning in administrative Patna and The Library of Science College, Patna. The main building of this college. interest of this research is to identify the problems area and 2. Statement of the Problem suggest the possible solutions to improve the services Patna College, Patna and Science College, Patna are the provided by these selected libraries. oldest college of Bihar. The study of social Science in Patna Patna College is the oldest institution of Bihar for College, Patna and study of science in Science College, Patna providing higher education in the state. It has left a deep played a very important role in modern Bihar. Library is very impact on the life of the people here. Most of the important important for any educational institutions. In modern era Colleges of Patna namely, Law College, Engineering College, information and communication technologies have made Science College and Vanijya Mahavidyalaya were initially great impact on the library services. But the services provided part and parcel of Patna College till January 1952. Later it by these selected libraries are not satisfactory. The analysis of became a constituent of Patna University. From henceforth it problem and its solutions are very important. remained an Under-Graduate institution only as the university 3. Significance of the Study took the responsibility of PG teaching upon itself. Today it Library being a growing organism aims to provide remains the most popular co-educational College for teaching different types of services to its users. Under this study efforts Arts. Academic Library plays a very critical role in have been made to find whether these libraries have achieved supporting the academic programmes of the institute. It their aims or not. This report is prepared on the services identifies, evaluates, procures, processes and then makes provided by two college libraries. This study will help to find these learning resources available to the faculties and students the similarities and dissimilarities, problem and potential for for their teaching, learning and research assignments. For growth of these selected libraries. This study should lead to these purpose Patna College has a rich library with own the clarification of how the two college libraries are being building namely Gyan Mandir. This library is situated inside managed. This study will also help in developing the standard Patna College Campus on the bank of holy river the Ganga. of services to the users and encourage the library personal to Science College, Patna is a constituent unit of Patna improve their skills of services in modern way. It will also University, Patna run by Government of Bihar. Science promote the stocks, facilities and use of modern equipment in College has a very rich Library. This library plays a very these selected libraries. critical role in supporting the academic programmes of the Therefore this study is very useful for students as well as college. faculties of Patna College, Patna and Science College, Patna. 54527 Shailesh Ranjan and Rakesh Khare / Elixir Library Science 144 (2020) 54526-54531 4. Objective of the Study College, Patna and Science College, Patna are not using Followings are the objective of the study: computers for library and information services. These 1. To find out the Services provide by these selected libraries. libraries are providing library and information services 2. To find out the use of modern information technologies in manually. these selected libraries. 8. Research Methodology 3. To find out the use of reference tools in these selected According to Terre Blanche and Durrheim (1999:29) libraries. “research design is a strategic framework for action that 4. To find out the number of periodicals subscribed and serves as a bridge between research questions and the discontinued in selected libraries and its impact on students as execution or implementation of the research. The designs are well as faculties of these colleges. plans that guide the arrangement of conditions for collection 5. To identify the actual and potential users of these selected and analysis of data in a manner that aims to combine libraries and their frequency of visit. relevance to the research purpose with economy in 6. To know the adequacy of library collection for the need of procedure”. users. I selected survey method of data collection for my 7. To know the view of users for improvement of library project work entitled “Comparative study of Library and services. Information services provided by the Library of Patna 8. To know the general professional and special qualification College, Patna and the library Science College, Patna”. The of the library personnel. survey method is the best method to know the present 9. To know the promotional prospects and job satisfaction situation of the topic of the study. Hence the survey has been among the library personnel. undertaken. 10. To find out some solution for improvement of library and In questionnaire, questions were asked about collection information services in these selected libraries. and services provided by the library i.e., 5. Scope of the Study Library Collection The scope of the proposed study is Patna College, Patna Circulation and Science College, Patna. These colleges have great Inter Library loan importance in higher education in Bihar. Many students of OPAC these colleges have got international fame. Proposed study is Reference services aimed to know the methods, means and step taken by the CAS libraries of Patna College, Patna and Science College, Patna SDI for improving library and information services to its users. Internet ,e.t.c. The proposed study, though small in sample, is unique. It will During this project direct observation method has been show the status of library and information services provided used for collecting information and forming an idea about by these libraries. following: 6. Sampling Working condition of the selected libraries Since the population constituted a heterogeneous General environment of the selected libraries population of students of Patna College, Patna and Science Physical facilities available in the selected libraries College, Patna are relatively large, the researcher decided to No. of Library and information services provided by the take a sample and to this end a probability sampling selected libraries technique was used. 100 Users (50 from Patna College Patna 9. Data Collection & 50 from Science College Patna) and 16 Library staffs (9 This Library has rich collection of documents. The from Patna College Patna & 7 from science College Patna) library collections include Books, Periodicals, Reference ware drawn as sample. So total sample size was 116. Books, Newspapers and C.D ROM’s. Following table shows Table 1. Sample Size from both the colleges under study the actual distribution of the collections College Staffs Students Table 2. Collection distribution of the Library of Patna Patna College, Patna 9 50 College, Patna Science College, Patna 7 50 S.NO. Quantity Total 16 100 01 General Books 70,000 7. Hypothesis 02 Text Books 45,000 Hypothesis is an assumption, presumption, or in simple 03 Reference Books 4,800 words guess towards some