DEVELOPMENT OF COLLEGE LIBRARIES IN THE JURISDICTION OF SOLAPUR UNIVERSITY AN EVALUATIVE STUDY

Abstract

Library is a heart of every college and colleges are the integral part of higher education and higher education is a back bone of the developing country so ultimately the college libraries play an important role in the educational history of the developing country. Mainly libraries in colleges are the primary source for learning process. The college library is a connecting link between teaching and learning as well as place which supplement its resources what is beyond scope of class room. It is the indirect connectivity between the student and faculty members. It serves the user by providing specific information to the user. But how far the college libraries play it s efficient role by adapting the modernization in the techniques and provides the befits to the all stakeholders in the forms of services is the unanswerable question till the detail survey of the all senior college libraries comes in the picture. My aim of the survey is to focus the reality of the library status related to infrastructure of library, physically equipped materials, reference services available in the library, information sources stored in the library, availability of trained staff, financial budget, digitization of library, internet facility, reading room, book bank facility to the needy student etc. newline