Reading Habits among Library and Information Science Students of Annamalai University: A Survey

Thanuskodi, S.

doi:10.1080/09751122.2011.11890011

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“…It was further show that more than half of the respondents read fictions, notebooks, computers and laptops. This is similar to the findings of (Huang et al, 2014;Pal & Singh, 2019;Thanuskodi, 2011;) students majorly read from notebooks and computers. It was however shown than less than half of the inhabitants read from magazines, journals, newspapers, and others.…”

Section: Discussion Of Findingssupporting

confidence: 87%

Influence of Covid-19 Lockdown on Reading Habit of Nigerians: A Case Study of Lagos State Inhabitants

Adeyemi¹

2020

Reading & Writing Quarterly

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Section: Discussion Of Findingssupporting

confidence: 87%

Influence of Covid-19 Lockdown on Reading Habit of Nigerians: A Case Study of Lagos State Inhabitants

Adeyemi¹

2020

Reading & Writing Quarterly

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“…In other words, habits are the result of action (Thanuskodi, 2011). Habit has been extensively investigated in the behavioral aspects tradition.…”

Section: Literature Review a Definition Of Reading Habitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Will Reading Habits Enhance Students’ Translation Speed?

Chasanah¹,

Isnainiyah²,

Azizah³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2019)

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This study aims to find out the influences of reading habit in enhancing students' translation speed especially whether reading habits can enhance the students' translation speed or not. This study used quantitative design. There were 30 students participated in this study which selected through random sampling. The data about students' reading habits and translation speed ability were collected through questionnaire and translation test with time limitation. Grounded theory was implemented for data analysis, out of which the finding emerged that there is no correlation between students' reading habit and their translation speed. The students who have low reading habit does not mean that they get poor acvhievement in translation speed ability and vice versa. Pre-activity dealing with the test topic should be done and the instrument for the translation speed should be renewed with the best and proper ones.

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“…Most of the studies related to the reading preferences of the LIS students are based on themes like assessing the library use patterns (Basu and Das, 2012; Collins and Stone, 2014; Franklin and Plum, 2004), the frequency of library visits (Pareek and Rana, 2013; Rani, 2009), gender variability (Shafi and Loan, 2010), time spent in the library (Mishra, 2014; Thanuskodi, 2011), preferred place of reading(Mishra and Yadav, 2013), the purpose of reading (Vellaichamy and Jeyshankar, 2014), reading interest (Akanda et al , 2013) and preferred language (Lone, 2011). It was observed that there were no studies assessing the importance of the geographical location of the author and publisher, authors’ institutional affiliation in the chances of selection of reading materials.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most of the studies related to reading preferences focus studying the reading habits and library use patterns based on library circulation data (Rani, 2009; Thanuskodi, 2011; Vellaichamy and Jeyshankar, 2014), but there is a need to understand the reading preferences based on the geographical location of the author, place of publication and authors’ institutional affiliation. The paper reports the findings of a study conducted to ascertain whether the institutional affiliation of the author, the geographic location of publisher affect the selection of reading material by the LIS students.…”

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Understanding the document selection rationale of Library and Information Science students

Kumar

Pandey

2018

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Purpose The study aims to investigate the document selection rationale of library and information science students to satisfy their academic needs. Design/methodology/approach The descriptive survey design was used for the study using questionnaire as the data collection instrument. The collected data are analysed by frequency distribution and presented using charts and tables. Findings The results of the study reveal the preferences of Library and Information Science (LIS) students and hints what they want from LIS literature. A majority of students prefer books in comparison to journal articles as reading material. The survey revealed a high preference towards books written by authors from national origin than international authors. Similarly, students prefer books published by the national publishers than the international publishers. The findings further suggest that the affiliation of the author is a major factor, as the students prefer books written by authors from central universities more than those written by authors belonging to state universities or authors from industry. Further, students seem to be more impressed with the books written by LIS academics than the books written by practising librarians. Research limitations/implications One limitation of the study is that it was conducted in India, taking the case of LIS students from only two universities. To generalise the impact, similar studies should be replicated by taking a larger sample to gain a complete perspective of LIS students. Practical implications The findings of the study have both theoretical and practical implications. The theoretical understanding of the behaviour of LIS students will help faculty members to understand the selection rationale of students. The practical aspect of this study is that the findings will help the acquisition librarians to take informed decisions in collection building for LIS collection in their libraries. Originality/value Most of the studies available in LIS literature related to reading preferences, study the general aspects such as frequency of library visit, the favourite place of reading, the purpose of library visit, gender-wise distribution of library visit, and time spent in the library. There are very few studies investigating the document selection rationale of LIS students.

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Reading Habits among Library and Information Science Students of Annamalai University: A Survey

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

Influence of Covid-19 Lockdown on Reading Habit of Nigerians: A Case Study of Lagos State Inhabitants

Influence of Covid-19 Lockdown on Reading Habit of Nigerians: A Case Study of Lagos State Inhabitants

Will Reading Habits Enhance Students’ Translation Speed?

Understanding the document selection rationale of Library and Information Science students

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