User Satisfaction of Library Collections by the Students, Faculty Members PDCE and GKC Engineering College Libraries: A Study

Abstract

Collection development in academic libraries has many challenges, and one of the concern was to determine the number of copies required for a specific subject domain books in the library. This paper describes the role of selected engineering college libraries in Andhra Pradesh, India in higher education and research of engineering. This paper comprehensively studies the library collections by the students and faculty members of Priyadarshini College of Engineering (PDCE) and Gokulakrishna Engineering College (GKC) libraries, Sullurpet. The study found out that the majority of the users (70.69%) of PDCE and GKCE are not satisfied with the collection of the audio/video cassettes available in the library, most of the users (91.72%) are satisfied with the newspapers collection, the majority of the users (76.89%) are satisfied with the latest editions of library books, a high percentage of the users (41.03%) are getting information about the new arrivals procured by the library through library staff, majority of the users (71.38%) are satisfied with the multiple copies of prescribed books, most of the users (86.21%) are satisfied with the collection of back volumes of periodicals in the library.