| Changing Scenario of Library Facilities and Services to Disabled Users in Law Institutions: A Study |
| Bagavathi A The Tamil Nadu Dr Ambedkar Law University Chennai – 600 113 |
| Abstract: Educational Institutions are service organizations, with the aim of imparting high standard of knowledge, providing an environment for doing valuable research for the upliftment of the human and society at large. It is one step above the temple where everybody are treated in equal without any discrimination in the name of origin, country, color, race, religion, gender, physic, disability, etc. The Educational institution library is a service department of the institution. Hence library has more responsibility in the institution which should have required facilities for all type of users and to provide indiscriminate, unbiased service to its users. In the era of information explosion and rapidly changing ICT environment, with technology and digitization the above requirement of the library can be fulfilled without much difficulty. The main purpose of this study is to explore the use of library resources and the facilities by the disabled users in TNDALU library and its affiliated institution libraries and to discover whether the TNDALU library and its affiliated institutions are satisfying the various requirements of disabled users in the digital era. To assess the facility, services and electronic resources in the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University library and its affiliated law colleges for the disabled users, a short Questionnaire method and interview method data collection techniques was done. It consists of twenty three questions regarding facilities and services provided by the university library and its affiliated institutions on the following parameters: a. Availability of Digital resources and facilities for the disabled users. b. Usefulness of Digital resources and library facilities for disabled users in Institutions and Opinion on library facility. The data collected from seventy users are analyzed and it was tabulated using percentage tabulation to draw inferences and findings. |
| Keywords: Digital Resources, Facilities, Types of Institutions, Types of Disabled Users, Opinion on Facilities etc Changing Scenario of Library Facilities and Services to Disabled Users in Law Institutions: A Study |
| DOI:https://doi.org/10.6025/jio/2019/9/3/82-94 |
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