Sudha, S. T. and Harinarayana, N. S. (2008) A comparative study of reading habits of professional and non-professional students. Kelpro Bulletin, 12 (1). pp. 1-14.
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The present study is an attempt made to examine the issue related to reading habits of professional and non professional students. The issues studied are their dependency on libraries. items that they read, problems encountered by them and so no. A total of 116 students (56 professionals and 60 non-professionals) served as the sample for the present study. The data was collected by questionnaire. MANOVA ware applied to find out the difference between course type and gender on various issues. Results revealed that professional students were more dependent on public libraries and non-professional students were more dependent on home libraries. Professional students had more interest in employment and value based, and non-professional students were more interested on entertainment, science and technology and International affairs. Professional students had more frequency of reading in business newspapers and subject journals; whereas non-professional students had more frequency of reading general magazines. Professional students had more problems related to reading like smoking & other habits, hetero sexual interests, family problems, part-time work. library oriented teaching. parental conflict, illiteracy of parents, emotional imbalance, and poverty & rural areas, than non-professional students. Gender-wise comparisons revealed that male students were more dependent on home libraries and female students were more dependent on public libraries. Male students were more interested in employment and value based items, whereas female students were more interested in political, international and agricultural and environment related items. Male students were more reading business and online readings whereas female students were more reading general newspapers. Problems encountered in reading habit for male students are smoking, part-time work, education system and emotional imbalance. Suggestions to improve readinghabits are also discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | K Library and Information Science > Library and Information Science |
| Divisions: | Department of > Library and Information Science |
| Depositing User: | Arshiya Kousar Library Assistant |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2019 06:09 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2019 06:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/4619 |
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