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Book Bank Service @ IIT Delhi: A Case Study


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The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed case study of book bank service at Central Library IIT Delhi. Book Bank service is an important service provided to the economically poor students. The article presents the usage of book bank service at IIT Delhi by students of B.Tech in the first semester the academic year 2017-18. The data was collected from the LibSys software database and analyzed using different parameters to get a clear picture about the usage of book bank by different categories of students. The results depicted that 1704 books out of 4300 books were issued. The service was mostly utilized by first year students. The study will be helpful to library and information professionals in knowing the procedures to run the book bank scheme and to increase its usage.

Keywords

Academic Library, Book Bank, Curriculum Needs, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), Marketing, User Satisfaction.
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Vanita Khanchandani
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi - 110016
India

Mushtaq Ahmad
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi - 110016
India

Monika Jain
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi - 110016
India


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  • Khanchandani, V. & Hasan, N. (2016). Marketing of library resources, services and products: A case study of IIT Delhi. DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology, 36(3),158–63. doi:10.14429/djlit.36.3.9813. Accessed on 4 December 2017.

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Authors

Vanita Khanchandani
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi - 110016, India
Mushtaq Ahmad
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi - 110016, India
Monika Jain
Central Library, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi - 110016, India

Abstract


The purpose of this paper is to present a detailed case study of book bank service at Central Library IIT Delhi. Book Bank service is an important service provided to the economically poor students. The article presents the usage of book bank service at IIT Delhi by students of B.Tech in the first semester the academic year 2017-18. The data was collected from the LibSys software database and analyzed using different parameters to get a clear picture about the usage of book bank by different categories of students. The results depicted that 1704 books out of 4300 books were issued. The service was mostly utilized by first year students. The study will be helpful to library and information professionals in knowing the procedures to run the book bank scheme and to increase its usage.

Keywords


Academic Library, Book Bank, Curriculum Needs, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), Marketing, User Satisfaction.

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