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INTRODUCTION

A BOOK is a Built-in Orderly Organized Knowledge Device. Popular books are written for a general audience and are usually intended to entertain, advise or persuade. Scholarly books are written for scholars/researchers in the author's field, and are typically intended to share research findings and contribute to the ongoing scholarly "conversation." Book's purpose is a goal. It's what you and your book set out to accomplish, such as to: Inspire change. Inform readers. The purpose of books for some people is to just simply enjoy and be entertained by words on a page. When people read their minds are in a dream-like state where their mind and emotions take over their body. Reading is fun, with scientific proof. But today, books are used for many reasons: Entertainment, religious purposes, studying and more. Books are incredible, and they have taught us so much. To sum it up, the purpose of books back then were for religious purposes. A library is a curated collection of sources of information and similar resources, selected by experts and made accessible to a defined community for reference and borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to material, and may be a physical location or a virtual space, or both. A library’s collection can include books, periodicals, newspaper, manuscripts, films, maps , prints. Documents, microform, CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, e-books, audiobooks, databases, and other formats. The functions and objectives of the library. 1 – Providing sources of information necessary for faculty members, students and workers, as well as local community. 2 - Organizing information sources and arranging them so they can be stored and retrieved to take advantage from with less effort. The school library plays a great role in the life of students by serving as the store house of knowledge. The importance of a library in a school cannot be over emphasized. While the role of the school library remains constant, its design, digital platform, strategies and tools could change as technology changes. School libraries help to: 1. Impact positively on the academic achievement of the students. Students can perform better during examination by reading various books. 2. Facilitate the work of the classroom teacher and ensures each student has equitable access to resources, irrespective of home opportunities or constraints. 3. Run independent learning programs, which integrate information resources and technologies 4. Equip students with the skills necessary to succeed in a constantly changing technological, social and economic environment.

5.Collaborate with classroom teachers to plan, implement and evaluate inquiry-based programs that will ensure students acquire skills to collect, critically analyse and organize information, problem-solve and communicate their findings. 6. Provide and promote quality fiction to develop and sustain in students the habit of reading for pleasure and to enrich students’ intellectual, aesthetic, cultural and emotional growth. 7. Cater for differences in learning and teaching styles through the provision of, and equality of access to, a wide range of curriculum resources – fiction and non-fiction, digital, print, audio and video. 8. Provide teachers with access to relevant curriculum information and professional development materials within and outside the school; and opportunities to cooperatively plan, implement and evaluate learning program Having this vital role and importance of a library to students, it must be easily accessible by everyone. Mostly students wants an easy access to the books for borrowing but sadly to the present, UC- Main Library still follows the old manual process. To be able to borrow books at the library, students need to secure 2x2 picture and study load to register. Once approved, student may borrow the book be physically present themselves at the school librarian, which is already very inconvenient knowing the modern technology that we have right now. To have an online book borrowing system will be very beneficial to students and to the library staff as well. Knowing that most of the students in the campus if not UC Scholars are self supporting, this system will help them manage most of their times from being present at the library to just be active online, register and borrow books via online borrowing. This system helps take some of the workload off of librarians and other staff members in the areas of acquisitions, cataloging and circulation, which in turn allows them to better serve us students. This extra time can lead to more programs being facilitated in the library and make library staff available to answer reference questions and help people who having trouble researching or finding the right information. Statement of the problem Libraries are nests, which thatch scholarship but libraries are not themselves automatically valuable to users, Users need to be motivated to see the real worth of a library. There are variousS resources available both in print and electronically the main 33 purpose of these resources will be fulfilled only if the users are able to locate these information sources effectively. Hence, the true worth of the library will be made.

Coming to this era of technological development the forms of resources has been distinctively transformed from printed books and journals to various electronic forms. Today's library has a challenge to broaden its resources and develop its collection in print resources as well as electronic format. Student of these generation are more inclined to digital forms of information they like to get information in a fastest way. This study has tried to find the answer for the following question that prevails among the student's making use of their libraries. Are the students aware about the library resources and services available for them? Where do they learn about the library's resources and services from? How efficient is online borrowing for them? What type of resources do the students prefer to use? Do they view their library as a resourceful library or not? How frequently do the students register for online borrowing? Do the student feel that library resources could get them academic success?

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