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Abstract:
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User is the key person in any library. The success of any library depends considerably on how best
the system design is based on a close and accurate understanding of the users. The user is not only
the important aspect but is also paradoxically a dynamic component of the library. The internet is a
highly complex network that interconnects millions of computers around the world. In a medical
college hospital campus, all the doctors and students are not able to come to the library to search
the library resources, which are available; it may be print materials or online materials or non book
materials. So, it is necessary to design/develop their own Intranet microsite or Campus network of
the library, which could be connected to the LAN (Local Area Network) and make available to all the
network computer terminals of the campus/hospital; this microsite should deliver/give all the facilities
available in their library. The Manipal University Health Sciences Library also developed/designed
and made access of library microsite for their users. Our study showed that 96.7% of respondents
have awareness of Microsite developed by the library; 66.7% of the respondents were accessing the
Internet resources through the library microsite and they are satisfied with the library resources. |