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News Paper Reading Habit Among the Professional College Staff Members for Various Points of View: a Survey

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News Paper Reading Habit Among the Professional College Staff Members for Various Points of View: a Survey

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INTRODUCTION

Newspapers have collected information from all directions. It helps to improve reading habit, knowledge and skills current awareness about world. Most of the people wish they read more. It is an activity that is both fun and enlightening. It can help us be more knowledgeable and successful. However, it is an activity that many people do not engage in very much. According to the 1999 National Household Education Survey, 50% of the U.S. population aged 25 and over read a newspaper at least once a week, read one or more magazines regularly, and had read a book in the past 6 months. What does this mean? It means that 50% of the population has not read a book in the last six months! And most of the staff members read the newspapers for various purposes it's clearly defined this article. So now a day reading newspapers habit important for all the staff members because more information and to identify the latest development exist's in their subject or field.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

Begum and Ramesh (1991) investigated the factors inhibiting the public library use; A case study of city central library, Mysore. This article "Factors inhibiting the public library use" analyzed the responses gathered from the users of the City Central Library, Mysore, India. Assesses the reading interests, factors inimical to the use of City Central Library, availability of reading materials and the Necessary improvements suggested by the users to the existing conditions of City Central Library., Mysore.

Somsong (1999), Reading habit promotion in ASEAN libraries. This paper Described the different activities that ASEAN had under taken to promote reading by increasing awareness among libraries their people. Firstly, factors limiting reading habit in ASEAN libraries had been approached. Secondly roles of local institutes or organizations in helping libraries conducting reading habit promotion had been acknowledged. Finally some suggestions on effective methods and successful programs of reading habit promotion by ASEAN Libraries had been collected

Bndaka (2007) investigated the using newspaper articles to develop students' reading skills in senior high school that the aim of this paper is to present a reading lesson Which was initially designed for the students of Peiramatiko Senior High School (Experimental Senior High School) of Patras, Greece and more specifically for class A of Senior High School. The main aim of the lesson was to develop the students' reading skills using a newspaper article and help student's gain confidence when faced with authentic texts. The planning of the lesson based on what the students should be exposed was that as much as possible to authentic reading text so that they are given the chance to encounter real language and not only made up of the language course books

RESEARCH DESIGN

This topic deals with the content and the meaning of the undertaking study in terms of objectives and process of analyzing the formation of hypothesis. It also explains the methodology of study with respect to sampling from interview schedule, sources of data, method of data analysis and limitation of study.

Objectives

The main aim of the study is to analyze the reading habit among the professional college paper news staff members for various points of view: A survey. The following are the subsequent objectives:

1. To study the socio economic conditions of professional college staff members.

2. To study the news reading habit among the professional staff college communities.

3. To observed the professional college staff members read the newspaper for various purpose

4. To make suggestions for the effective reading of newspapers in the professional college staff community.

Methodology

For realizing the objectives of any study data, it is required and in turn, for the collection of data, a field is selected to realize the objectives of the study to collect data required for the purpose, the researcher News paper reading habit among the choose professional college staff members for various points of view: A survey

Method of data collection

For collecting the data the researcher has prepared interview schedule for the users and distributed to them. The empirical research design and random sampling technique was applied to select the questioners were distributed sample.110 to the sample and 105 were received back. Out of the 105 samples taken from professional college staff members in Einstein college of Engineering, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu. 11 samples were from professors and 24 samples were from Asst. professor. 39 samples were from lecturer, 28 samples were from non teaching staff and 3 samples were from others staff community.

Data Analysis

The collected data were entered in the master table and sub-tables were created. The statistical tools like weighted average and percentage have been used.

ANALYSIS

SOCIO ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF THE STAFF MEMBERS

Table.1

Distribution of professional college staff community according to sex

S. No Occupation Total Male Female

A professor 6

(54.5)

(45.5) 11

(10.5)

2 Asst. Professor 14

(58.3) 10

(41.7)

(22.8)

Lecturer 3 31

(79.5)

(20.5) 39

(37.1)

4 Non teaching staff 22

(78.6)

(21.4) 28

(26.7)

5 Others 2

(66.7)

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Begum, Jahan Khaiser and Ramesh, CP "Factors inhibiting the public library use: A case study of city central library, Mysore." Library Review. (1991): 332-350.

Bertot, John Carlo, McClure, Charles R and Ryan, Joe Statistics. "Performance Measures for Public Library Networked Services." Library and Information Science Research.23 (3) 2001:299-300

Bndaka, Eleni. "Using newspaper articles to develop students' reading skills in senior high school." The Reading Matrix 7 (1) (2007)

Somsong, Sangkaeo. "Reading habit promotion in ASEAN libraries." 65th IFLA Council and General Conference Bangkok, Thailand. 28August1999.

Yilmaz, Bulent. "Reading and library usage habits of the students Whose mother tongue is Turkish in Vienna, Austria." 66thIFL council and General Conference Jerusalem, Israel. (2000): 13-18.

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About the Author:

Arulraj, R is working as Librarian in Department of Library and information science of Einstein college of Engineering, Tiruneveli District (Tamil Nadu). He has completed

BSc (Botany), MLIS and Mphil (Library and Information Science). Now he is doing PGDLAN (Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking) course. He has three years experience in Library professional. His research interest includes reading habit, performance evaluation, knowledge management, users study and information-seeking behaviors in library and information science. He is so involved in writing more research articles on different topics. He is the member of SALIS (Society for the Advancement of Library and Information Science and Librarian world.com.

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