Promotion of usability through institutional repository of SEUSL library

Abstract

Institutional Repositories (IR) provide facilities to the faculty, researchers and administrators who need to archive and share their research articles and historical and creative materials. Access to information through electronic media is required by libraries and user communities and therefore, almost all the libraries in universities have developed IRs as a strategy of IT application in library services. Archival Collection service is important to any academic library. The aim of this study is to identify how electronic information resources are developed by academic library users and press trends that can be seen among faculties and students. The study also examines the use pattern, acceptance, perceived importance and satisfaction on electronic resources over print resources. Open source software “Dspace” was used to create an Institutional Repository and the tools such as JDK7.3; Apache Maven 3.1.1; Tomcat 8.0.3; Apache Ant 1.9.3; Postgres SQL 9.3; Dspace 5.4 and HP scanner were used with the Dspace Software. Past Question Papers, SEUSL scholarly publications, speeches, newspaper clippings, audio materials, SEUSL newsletter/information bulletin, CD and DVD collection, conference publications, e-books, electronic theses and dissertations, journal Article, Lecture presentation, news clippings, photos, project reports question bank and syllabus other electronic resources were uploaded into IR. .The digital builder has facilitated the user to click the question Bank for uploading more question papers and Archive Collection. Users were educated how to search, upload and download resources from IR. The study found that users were interested to use the IR by searching uploading and downloading.