Resources Availability Impacts on Reading Habit and Literacy Attitude of College Students in Tirunelveli District Central Library

Authors

Dr.P.Balasubramanian Subramanian Bala subramanian, M.s,universityFollow
M Mohammed Yasir Mr, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, IndiaFollow

Date of this Version

Winter 12-5-2019

Document Type

Article

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Abstract

The focus of the present study is to analyse the reading habit and literacy attitude of the college students who use the Tirunelveli district central library. The present study tries analyse how the reading habits has an impact upon the literacy attitude of the college students who use the library. In order to analyse the impact of the library, the resources, facilities, infrastructures and staff service of the library has been taken as a factor and how they impact the reading habit and library usage of the respondents has been analysed and how does it positively impact the literacy attitude of the respondents is the focus of the study. The college students who use the Tirunelveli district central library form the respondents of the present research and 407 respondents have been selected for the present study. The data has been analysed using confirmatory factor analysis and the findings and suggestions are provided.