USE OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES BY RESEARCH SCHOLARS OF LIFE-SCIENCES, KUVEMPU UNIVERSITY, SHANKARAGHATTA, SHIVAMOGGA: A STUDY

Electronic resources (E-resources) have become the most sought after library reserves, in satisfying the varied needs of patrons expeditiously. Information technology has brought phenomenal change and has become an important tool for information dissemination, storing and retrieving, as a result E-Information sources have acquired major portion of library collection. The present study has been chosen on use of E- resources by the life science research scholars of Kuvempu University, Shivamogga to verify how E-resources have brought changes in the progress of research and development and what are the constrains in transforming print mode of library to digital library and seek possible suggestions for the improvement in library resources. The results revealed the electronic are quite useful to research scholars of life sciences and these are good alternatives compared conventional print resources or hard copies. Digitalization of agricultural university libraries is quite useful for dissemination of knowledge among biological science research scholars