A Feasibility Study of Establishing a Library Hub e-net.

Proponent:

Trinidad, Abigail

Leonardo, Eugene

Jaurigue, Zalvin

Feliciano, Joash Daniel

Obar, Racquel

Orillo, Ellonah Jean

Valera, Adrian

Severa, Geidel

Alonzo, Samantha Aira

PCU-Manila
 CHAPTER I

I. Introduction

Twenty-first century development goals and initiatives demand greater

efforts to leverage emerging online information resources. The internet has

grown and envolved over the last 50 years- reflecting the importance of

information, but also itself driving increased demand for information in every

field and part of the world. However, access for all is still langging, with only

35 of the world’s population of seven billion connected. This lack of access

to knowledge and lack of opportunities to generate and disseminate new

knowledge is preventing some of the world’s poorest communities from

meeting their most severe challenges.

A library is an important source of knowledge to young minds in schools.

It develops the important habit of reading among the students. Schools

libraries help to impact positively on the academic achievement of the

students. Students can perform better during examination by reading various

books.

The primary purpose of the public library is to provide resources and

services in a variety of media to meet the needs of individuals and groups for

education, information and personal development including recreation and

leisure.
 The internet is a globally connected network system that uses TOP/IP to

transmit data via various types of media. The internet is a network of global

exchanges including private, public, business, academic and government

networks connected by guided, wireless and fiber optic technologies. The

terms internet and World Wide Web are often used interchangeably, but they

are not exactly the same thing; the internet refers to the global

communication system including hardware and infrastructure, while the web

is one of the services communicated over the internet.

Therefore, libraries with internet access can easily help the students who

needs to connect with the internet. Doing their assignment, using computer

or other gadgets needs internet to search something, to download apps for

practical reasons. Libraries with internet is “in” with the millennials or the

senior students to help their study.

The different physical and digital channels through which the general public

access the library should ideally function in close harmony, in accordance with

the ‘cross channel’ model.87 As this model is centred on the customer, and

he decides which channel he will use to access the library, the libraries

therefore need to make sure that the services the offer are provided

synchronized, creating a seamlessly-integrated library that provides print and

digital content, advice and support and a leaning environment.

II. Statement of the Problem

1. Marketing aspect.
1.1 Who are the target respondents?

1.2 What are the possible material/tools that will be used to

establish the “Library hub e-net”?

2. Operations and technical aspect

2.1 What is the possible size of the location what we used?

2.2 How long will be the operating hours?

3. Financial aspect
3.1 How much the possible cost of establishing a Library hub e-

net?

3.2 Who is/are the financial sources?

3.3 Do you think that the financial target budget is enough to build

the Library hub e-net?

4. Social aspect
4.1 What are the advantages /disadvantages of establishing a

library hub e-net?

4.2 Who will get the benefit of this business?

5. Organization and Management aspect

5.1 What are the strands of the students involve in this business?

5.2 What are the qualification of a personel involved in this

business?
 III. Scope and Limitations

The researchers aim to analyze the possible outcome of establishing a

library hub e-net in order to measure its ability. Researchers are going to

conduct their study in Philippine Christian University (PCU) of Manila by

conducting a survey to its SHS students using the simple random method.

Researchers have chosen PCU for they believe that it is the most appropriate

place for them to conduct their study. Moreover, they have picked SHS student

as their respondents because they observed that these students are more

inclined and dependent in using the internet. Therefore, all students in PCU,

as long as they are under the SHS program can be considered as one of the

researchers respondents.

CHAPTER II

Foreign Literature

Books vs. Internet: Whose Information Is More Accurate?

In Discussion by Hannah Johnson October 25, 2011

Roger Tagholm reports on a makeshift library called Star Books (named

for a nearby Starbucks) that has been set up at the Occupy London protest

site near St. Paul’s Cathedral. Speaking about why he set up the library at the

protest site, Ashley Bignall says, “I think a lot of young people get their

information from the internet, but if you want to check something factual, it’s

important to see it in a book.”

 Another Star Books patron, seventeen-year-old Francis Haseldon said,

“I think people are gradually dissociating more from books which is a shame.

I think the act of reading makes you think — you confront ideas and opinions.

I love the idea of the Occupy Library — a permanent place where people can

interact with new ideas, or look at old ideas in a new way.”

So, are print books and the finite nature of the printed page a better

source of information than the shifting sands of the internet? The “books vs.

internet” argument is not new, nor has it seen a shortage of advocates for

both sides.

While books have earned a trusted spot in our culture as legitimate

sources of information, having been vetted by an entire network of people,

the internet does not always have that same quality assurance — but it does

have the wisdom of the crowds, relying that at least one reader will catch and

point out the mistakes.

So tell us, do you trust books or the internet for information?

https://publishingperspectives.com/2011/10/books-vs-internet-more-

accurate/

10 Reasons Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library

(Despite public demand, the notion persists with some that the internet makes

libraries unnecessary.)
By Mark Y. Herring | January 20, 2010

Reading, said the great English essayist Matthew Arnold, “is culture.”

Given the condition of reading test scores among school children nationwide,

it isn’t surprising to find both our nation and our culture in trouble. Further,

the rush to internetize all schools, particularly K–12, adds to our downward

spiral. If it were not for the Harry Potter books one might lose all hope who

languishes here. Then, suddenly, you realize libraries really are in trouble,

grave danger, when important higher-education officials opine, “Don’t you

know the internet has made libraries obsolete?” Gadzooks! as Harry himself

might say.

In an effort to save our culture, strike a blow for reading, and, above

all, correct the well-intentioned but horribly misguided notions about what is

fast becoming intertopia among many nonlibrarian bean counters, here are

10 reasons why the Internet is no substitute for a library.

1. Not Everything Is on the Internet

With billions of web pages you couldn’t tell it by looking. Nevertheless,

a sizeable amount of substantive materials is not on the Internet for free. For

example, only about 8% of all journals are on the web, and an even smaller

fraction of books are there. Both are costly! If you want the Journal of

Biochemistry, Physics Today, Journal of American History, you’ll pay, and to

the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

2. The Needle (Your Search) in the Haystack (the Web)

The internet is like a vast uncataloged library. Whether you’re using

Google or any one of a dozen other search or metasearch engines, you’re not

searching the entire web. Sites often promise to search everything but they

can’t deliver. Moreover, what they do search is not updated daily, weekly, or

even monthly, regardless of what’s advertised. If a librarian told you, “Here

are 10 articles on Native Americans. We have 40 others but we’re not going

to let you see them, not now, not yet, not until you’ve tried another search in

another library,” you’d throw a fit. The internet does this routinely and no one

seems to mind.

3. Quality Control Doesn’t Exist

Yes, we need the internet, but in addition to all the scientific, medical,

and historical information (when accurate), there is also a cesspool of waste.

When young people aren’t getting their sex education off XXX-rated sites,

they’re learning politics from the Freeman Web page, or race relations from

Klan sites. There is no quality control on the web, and there isn’t likely to be

any. Unlike libraries where vanity press publications are rarely, if ever,

collected, vanity is often what drives the internet. Any fool can put up anything

on the web, and, to my accounting, all have.

4. What You Don’t Know Really Does Hurt You

The great boon to libraries has been the digitization of journals. But full-

text sites, while grand, aren’t always full. What you don’t know can hurt you:

articles on these sites are often missing, among other things, footnotes;

tables, graphs, and formulae do not often show up in a readable fashion

(especially when printed); and journal titles in a digitized package change

regularly, often without warning.

A library may begin with X number of journals in September and end

with Y number in May. Trouble is, those titles aren’t the same from September

to May. Although the library may have paid $100,000 for the access, it’s rarely

notified of any changes. I would not trade access to digitized journals for

anything in the world, but their use must be a judicious, planned, and

measured one, not full, total, and exclusive reliance.

5. States Can Now Buy One Book and Distribute to Every Library on the Web—

NOT!

Yes, and we could have one national high school, a national university,

and a small cadre of faculty teaching everybody over streaming video. Let’s

take this one step further and have only digitized sports teams for real

savings! (Okay, I know, I’ve insulted the national religion.) From 1970 to 2001

about 50,000 academic titles have been published every year. Of these 1.5

million titles, fewer than a couple thousand are available. What is on the
internet are about 20,000 titles published before 1925. Why? No copyright

restrictions that cause prices to soar to two or three times their printed costs.

Finally, vendors delivering e-books allow only one digitized copy per library.

If you check out an e-book over the Web, I can’t have it until you return it.

Go figure, as they say. And if you’re late getting the book back, there is no

dog-ate-my-homework argument. It’s charged to your credit card

automatically.

6. Hey, Bud, You Forgot about E-book Readers

Most of us have forgotten what we said about microfilm (“It would shrink

libraries to shoebox size”), or when educational television was invented (“We’ll

need fewer teachers in the future”). Try reading an e-book reader for more

than a half-hour. Headaches and eyestrain are the best results. Moreover, the

cost of readers runs from $200 to $2,000, the cheaper ones being harder on

the eyes. Will this change? Doubtless, but it won't stop the publication of

books.

7. Aren’t There Library-less Universities Now?

Not really. The newest state university in California at Monterey opened

without a library building a few years ago. For the last two years, they’ve been

buying books by the tens of thousands because—surprise, surprise—they

couldn’t find what they needed on the internet. California Polytechnic State

University, home of the world’s highest concentration of engineers and

computer geeks, explored the possibility of a virtual (fully electronic) library

for two years. Their solution was a $42-million traditional library with, of

course, a strong electronic component. In other words, a fully virtualized

library just can’t be done. Not yet, not now, not in our lifetimes.

8. But a Virtual State Library Would Do It, Right?

Do what, bankrupt the state? Yes, it would. The cost of having

everything digitized is incredibly high, costing tens of millions of dollars just

in copyright releases. And this buys only one virtual library at one university.

Questia Media, the biggest such outfit, spent $125 million digitizing 50,000

books released (but not to libraries!). At this rate, to virtualize a medium-

sized library of 400,000 volumes would cost a mere $1,000,000,000! Then

you need to make sure students have equitable access everywhere they need

it, when they need it. Finally, what do you do with rare and valuable primary

sources once they are digitized? Take them to the dump? And you must hope

the power never, ever goes out. Sure, students could still read by candlelight,

but what would they be reading?

9. The Internet: A Mile Wide, an Inch (or Less) Deep

Looking into the abyss of the internet is like vertigo over a void. But the

void has to do not only with what’s there, but also with what isn’t. Not much

on the internet is more than 15 years old. Vendors offering magazine access

routinely add a new year while dropping an earlier one. Access to older
material is very expensive. It’ll be useful, in coming years, for students to

know (and have access to) more than just the scholarly materials written in

the last 10 to15 years.

10. The Internet Is Ubiquitous but Books Are Portable

In a recent survey of those who buy electronic books, more than 80% said

they like buying paper books over the internet, not reading them on the web.

We have nearly 1,000 years of reading print in our bloodstream and that’s not

likely to change in the next 75. Granted, there will be changes in the delivery

of electronic materials now, and those changes, most of them anyway, will be

hugely beneficial. But humankind, being what it is, will always want to curl up

with a good book—not a laptop—at least for the foreseeable future.

The web is great; but it’s a woefully poor substitute for a full-service library.

It is mad idolatry to make it more than a tool. Libraries are icons of our cultural

intellect, totems to the totality of knowledge. If we make them obsolete, we’ve

signed the death warrant to our collective national conscience, not to mention

sentencing what’s left of our culture to the waste bin of history. No one knows

better than librarians just how much it costs to run a library. We’re always

looking for ways to trim expenses while not contracting service. The internet

is marvelous, but to claim, as some now do, that it’s making libraries obsolete

is as silly as saying shoes have made feet unnecessary.

 This article originally appeared in American Libraries, April 2001, p. 76–

78, modified slightly January 2010.

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2010/01/20/10-reasons-why-the-

internet-is-no-substitute-for-a-library/

Internet beats books for improving the mind, say scientists

By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent

4:00PM BST 14 Oct 2008

Browsing the internet is better than reading books for boosting the brain

power of middle-aged and older adults, new research has found.

Scientists discovered that searching the World Wide Web exercised the

mind far more than reading and was similar to completing crosswords and

puzzles.

Brain scans showed that going online stimulated larger parts of the brain

than the relatively passive activity of reading a novel or non-fiction book.

It was so stimulating that the authors of the study believe it could

actually help people maintain healthier brains into their old age.

"The study results are encouraging, that emerging computerised

technologies may have physiological effects and potential benefits for middle-

aged and older adults," said principal investigator Dr Gary Small, a professor
at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at University of

California.

"Internet searching engages complicated brain activity, which may help

exercise and improve brain function." The study, the first of its kind to assess

the impact of internet searching on brain performance, is published in the

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

As the brain ages, a number of changes occur which impact on

performance, such as general wasting and reductions in cell activity.

The team found that for computer-savvy middle-aged and older adults,

searching the internet triggers key centres in the brain that control decision-

making and complex reasoning.

They worked with 24 research volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76 with

healthy brain function.

Half of the study participants had experience searching the internet,

while the other half had no experience. Age, educational level and gender

were similar between the two groups.

Both sets performed web searches and read books while undergoing

functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, which recorded the

subtle brain-circuitry changes experienced during these activities.

 This type of scan tracks the intensity of cell responses in the brain by

measuring the level of blood flow during tasks.

All study participants showed significant brain activity during the book-

reading task, demonstrating use of the regions controlling language, reading,

memory and visual abilities, which are located in the temporal, parietal,

occipital and other areas of the brain.

But internet searches revealed a major difference between the two

groups. While all participants demonstrated the same brain activity that was

seen during the book-reading, the web-savvy group also registered activity in

the frontal, temporal and cingulate areas of the brain, which control decision-

making and complex reasoning.

"Our most striking finding was that internet searching appears to engage

a greater extent of neural circuitry that is not activated during reading - but

only in those with prior internet experience," said Dr Small, who is also the

director of UCLA's Memory and Ageing Research Centre.

Volunteers with prior experience of the internet registered a twofold

increase in brain activation while web searching when compared with those

with little internet experience.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/3353348/Internet-

beats-books-for-improving-the-mind-say-scientists.html
Library vs. Internet

Sun.Star Baguio

29 Apr 2015

PHOEBE JANE V. NAVARRETE

THE library and the internet are repositories of our collective knowledge.

Libraries and the internet host our cultural heritage, the memory of our

present and past civilization.

We live in the information age, where access to many wonderful internet

resources is just a few quick clicks away. But the internet is not a substitute

for a library. A library has a very systematic way in which information is

catalogued to enable searchers to locate the desired information. The internet,

on the other hand, has no system for consistency. Different search engines to

their databases in different ways. The accuracy of both library information and

internet information are dissimilar. In a library, the information is selected,

reviewed, evaluated, and catalogued. Information found in the library are

selected for specific purposes and specific reasons to be included in the

collection found inside the library. Internet information on the other hand, has

no evaluation criteria. Anyone can publish anything on the internet without

restriction.

Libraries and the internet are major sources of information that

researchers commonly use, for purposes of academic assignment and to

obtain reliable information that can be utilized to researches. A library is a sea

of books, educational magazines, newspapers and so on for people to dive

into, explore, discover and build knowledge. Unlike a library, the internet is a

universe of computer networks where researchers can search for any kind of

information, bad or good, simply by opening the network. As sources of

information for students, libraries and the internet have many similar but

different aspects such as time, reliability, and accessibility.

The use of both library and the internet will depend on the researcher.

In a research the material cited on paper needs to be up to date to ensure

accuracy. The rise of the internet has presented researchers with new sources

of information. The ease of locating an info in a vast array of data on the

internet is a tempting alternative to visiting the library. There are numerous

benefits to relying on libraries for research purposes. The information stored

in the library is usually of quality, and librarians take great pains to ensure

that the periodicals and books housed are reliable sources. Libraries often

include material that cannot be accessed on the internet, or at least cannot

be accessed for free. The library and the internet seem to be serving the same

purpose in the lives of the researchers; it is just a matter of pick.

https://www.pressreader.com/philippines/sunstar-

baguio/20150429/281694023331281
21st-century academic libraries

By TERESITA TANHUECO-TUMAPON

August 18, 2017

TERESITA TANHUECO-TUMAPON

THERE are three types of libraries—public libraries, special libraries and

academic libraries. Some academic libraries do have special libraries. A simple

special library would start with a “corner” in an academic library, such as a

corner on American Studies, or of Japanese Literature in English, or of the

Thomasites, or the Filipino “zarzuela”(the traditional Filipino theater) etc., or

some other special collections. We would recall that as students, it was in

these hallowed halls of the university library that we spent most of our study

hours to catch up with the assigned capstones for our respective subjects. We

must have used, too, a “special corner,” as when I wrote about the haiku.

How is the academic library today?

How universities behave, influence libraries. We in academe would have

taken note of the creeping changes in today’s libraries. With digital technology

as a popular learning tool, academic libraries have dropped age-old ways to

cope with learning schemes of today’s generation. Digital resources are

expanded, making available fast internet services. Ready assistance, often,

one on one, is provided to support the development of students’ digital

capabilities for easy access to online references. Digital referencing, once only

through email, have greatly improved its accessibility, creating collaboration

among references providers. Indeed, libraries could be described as networks

of expertise. It is likely, that at present, all Philippine academic libraries use

the Open Public Access Catalogue (OPAC) and are increasing both their

subscribed and open access resources. This responds to the Commission on

Higher Education (CHEd) mandate for higher education institutions (HEIs) to

do more and improve quality of research, foster this research culture in their

academics and train students in research, as well.

Reconfiguring space. A consequent change in the modern library is its

architecture. The new use of space for virtual and actual learning calls for a

new architecture—to reconfigure bookshelves and furniture arrangement, solo

carrels, discarding duplicates to gain more space. Academics and their

students now “search for information from their desktop; users download e-

books onto their PDAs; full-text retrieval of information sources is becoming

commonplace; and services are increasingly becoming personalized and pay-

as-you-use.” <http://rizal.lib.admu.edu.ph/rlconflibmgt/PDF /singh.pdf>.

Installed movable panels conveniently facilitate preparing meeting rooms for

short sessions with invited research experts. Virtual sessions make use of

video-conferencing or web-camera services—a normal mode of instruction in

modern-day academe. These necessitate some provision for appropriate

space, digital equipment and amenities such as a lounge for midday breaks,

a corner to brew coffee, a viewing room equipped with well-positioned electric

outlets, desktop computers, laptops, printers, LCDs, document cameras,

scanners, photocopiers, etc. These constitute the features in the changing

architecture of libraries. <http://librarysciencedegree.usc.edu/resources/

articles-and-blogs/the-changing-face-of-modern-libraries/>

What do librarians in offshore universities say? “What we’re seeing is

not less use of the library by our staff and students, but changing needs of

users,” says University of Manchester librarian Janet Wilkinson. ”Students

continue to need study space, but their expectations are different. They want

us to provide roomy group space to support new ways of learning, silent areas

for when they are revising, relaxation areas and cafés to allow them to spend

long hours in the building. More than anything else (or so it sometimes seems)

they want easy access to power to recharge their growing numbers of mobile

devices, and very good wifi. <https://www.the guardian.com › Higher

Education Network › Learning and teaching>At New York University, the dean

of library, Carol Mandel, points out that, “Well-designed space is one of the

most important services an academic library can offer.” She further notes that

“the most important challenge (today) is to ensure enduring access to digital

information. Intellectual productivity and successful learning are the engines

of a research university, and well-designed library spaces fuel that engine.”

Consequently, “the single most important challenge that all research libraries

face is to ensure enduring access to digital information – information that can

disappear as quickly as it appears.” Thus at NYU, “an internationally diverse

community of students and faculty circulate easily and productively

throughout a rich network of sites, portal campuses, and research institutes

around the world,” Mandel says. This vision, she adds, “drives our global

library service objective: a seamless library experience at all of our

sites.”<https://www.theguardian.com › Higher Education Network ›

International>

The Philippine Association of Academic and Research Libraries (PAARL).

PAARL holds regular administrative and continuing professional development

(CPD) conferences. As in other climes, the Association suggests to have the

university librarian, who should have at least a master’s degree in library

science, be given academic status (that is, like any teaching or research

faculty member) and therefore is due an academic

rank.<http://www.dlsu.edu.ph/library/paarl/pdf/standards/standards2000.p

df> (similar to guidance counsellors and the university registrar—as academic

support staff, provided they have a master’s degree, they are due an academic

rank.)

The academic library of the future. In a paper on Reference Services in

the Digital Age, Dr. Diljit Singh, Faculty of Computer Science & Information

Technology, University of Malaya, concludes that the “often secondary role of

reference services” will have “a more prominent role …where the services

provided are attractive, effective, evaluated, marketed, integrated,

professional, institutionalized, value-based, and appropriate (Janes, 2002).”

All these demands for library services considered, librarians have to sustain
their continuing professional development (CPD). (For the whole paper, please

refer to “Conference on Library Management in the 21st Century” at the

Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, March 29-30, 2004.)

<http://rizal.lib.admu.edu.ph/rlconflibmgt /PDFn/ singh.pdf> (30)

https://www.manilatimes.net/21st-century-academic-

libraries/345157/?fbclid=IwAR0gFJeq9oNx51AQHYEWRtvaWgTLhA-

tEAUyGMRNmfBeOtaIUvA4BNEmPwE

Foreign Study

Library user studies for strategic planning

Zinaida Manzuch

Institute of Library and Information Science, Vilnius University, Universiteto

3, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lithuania

Elena Maceviciute

Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås, SE-

50190 Borås, Sweden

Abstract

Introduction. There are five county public libraries in Lithuania with specific

functions in the state library system. A research project LiBiTOP was

conducted to identify directions of their strategic divelopment. Case studies of

each library were carried out to identify their strengths and weaknesses.

Library user satisfaction with library service were part of these case studies.

Goal. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the data of usage of library services

and user satisfaction for outlining the directions of strategic development of

the county public libraries in Lithuania. The data used for the purposes of this

article is only part of a larger qualitative and quantitative data collected for

the LiBiTOP project.

Method. Statistical data of library activities was provided by libraries for the

latest five years. User satisfaction was surveyed using a questionnaire in all

five county public libraries in Lithuania. The questionnaire was based on other

user satisfaction tools, especially, the SCONUL Satisfaction Survey for library

services.

Analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to make sense of two sets of data

(usage statistics and user questionnaire) for each library case study.

Results. Results show that the usage of county public library services and

collections is inadequate. The percentage of target group reached is very low.

User satisfaction is expressed as high and very high, however, the data

depicting the actual use of services under evaluation reveal which library

services are not used or demanded by users.

Conclusions. A number of strategic development possibilities were outlined for

the county public libraries in Lithuania using data of users' survey and usage
statistics. They were used to formulate recommendations on further

development of Lithuanian public libraries for the law-makers, governmental

bodies, and library managers.

http://www.informationr.net/ir/19-

4/isic/isic06.html?fbclid?=IwAR37b0MdPNmSzht07Z50bSOlN-

fhyrkDN9gjMbvYoPVzcVqMTNCtK66%20no#.W VKZvZuLIV

Local Study

Books Vs The Internet: A Comprehensive Study

By OSA Webmaster Nine

The modern world is so fast that people don’t even have the time to

read a full news story in the morning newspaper. As a working person, I carry

my newspaper along with me every day when I start from home for my office.

I only have the time to read the headlines of the newspaper during my travel

hour from home to office. As I travel by a public vehicle, so I get just enough

time to read at least the headlines; but it’s not possible for those who travel

in their own vehicles, as they have to drive on their own. In such a fast moving

era, people almost have forgotten to read books.

People prefer to read online journals and fictions than to hold a bulky

book in their hands. One factor that facilitates the popularity of the Internet

is its availability. The Internet facility is available almost in every nook and

corner of the world. Even if we are travelling to the distant villages in our
country, we would be getting the Internet facility. The availability of this

facility on our cell phones has made the path easier. Now people, who have

an interest in books, needn’t travel very far to reach the library, because the

world of books is present in their PC or cell phones.

Despite the comfort provided by this revolutionizing facility of the

Internet, there are some people who still love to be engaged in reading bulky

books. It is so because; people sometime find it difficult to search on the

Internet. So they prefer to read books or journals available in the library, to

be on the safer side. Moreover, it’s altogether a different experience to read a

book sitting in the library. Reading a book involves a lot of attention, so a

library is the ideal place for reading books and exploring the world. It’s a

modern day trend that in most of the educational institutes, books are

replaced to a large extent by online materials available on the Internet.

Whenever children get some school projects, they first run to their

computers to get the information related to it. There is genuinely no harm in

doing so, but the authenticity of the details provided on the Internet should

be checked first, because many sites provide half or even wrong information.

The Internet helps us become well informed citizens, knowledgeable about

current events and updated with the latest controversies and important

trends. Though the Internet helps us become aware of what’s going on in the

world at a fast pace, the literary world is still better at helping us become

aware at the pace most suited to each of us.

 Reading books has less harmful effects on our eye sight as compared to

reading online at a computer. The computer constantly releases harmful rays

that badly impact the eyesight, especially of the children. But it is not that the

Internet only has a bad impact, but that it also does a host of goods for us.

The Internet is a social platform where we can exchange our views, ideas or

thoughts to the world, as well as know about the world in a better manner.

Both Internet and books should go hand in hand so that the next generation

enjoys a better future.

https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/books-vs-the-internet-a-

comprehensive-study

A STUDY ON STUDENT’S USE OF LIBRARY RESOURCES AND SELF-EFFICACY

Nina Shrestha

After tabulating and analyzing the data the findings of the study

indicated that students are most in the need of intervention as they often

come to college unprepared. The guidance in the use of library resources and

services is necessary to help students meet some of the information

requirements. It is also found that library books, e-journals and Internet are

the most popular source of information for the course work and research and

the place of Google in the student’s information behavior is prominent and

positively co-related to use of traditional library resources.

The study shows that in today’s fast paced world the desire for expediency

has promoted students to place a premium on information that can be found

easily and quickly. To this end, many students limit their search to electronic

resources, choosing format over substance and convenience over accuracy.

In particular reliance on the world wide web as a primary and often sole

research tool has impacted the quality and rigor of students projects and

reduced students familiarity with more traditional print resources and

bibliographical databases in their college library collection.

Internet has rapidly become one of the most powerful global sources of

wide range of information presenting many possibilities for the efficient and

unlimited dissemination of information. It has contributed positively in

enhancing the search effectiveness. Which has lead to giving students

psychological boost and problem solving ability. The newfound confidence due

to the easily accessible information resources has upgraded the learning ways

among them. Students have become more competent and confident about

what they could achieve in the given situations and knowledgeable about the

ways that leads to the achievement.

With the popularity of the electronic resources as the major information

sources the study has also found that all the libraries is automated with some

having their own online catalogue system with subscription to electronic

journal sites and bibliographic indexes. Even if the library did not have various

electronic resources they gave Internet services through computer labs and
online catalogue. But without proper knowledge of accessing the information

sources both electronic or print students are vulnerable to the overloaded

information and was not seen so much keen on using the library’s electronic

resources they preferred internet resources as its interface is easy to use and

they could get unlimited information on the subjects.

Proper guidance and lack of professional person along with the

inadequate collection in the material as well as insufficient networking

computers has been the main drawbacks on students exploring the resources.

For them to be more interested towards libraries librarians along with the

faculty members need to work together in educating them about the services

and resources that is available and library should also work towards

networking with other libraries so that it could provide better range of

materials in given subject.

In this study even though students are drawn to information sources

that allow them to complete their research in “the easiest least painful way”

the large percent of students are still motivated to learn about accessing their

present library resources. With such a strong bias among students towards

using the web as their primary research tool, library instruction should be

considered a crucial means of introducing students to print resources of the

library beside the web. Numerous studies have shown that positive change in

student’s research skills and knowledge of the library and its resources after

library instruction. This study has also tried to point towards that aspect of
the library where it could educate its users by giving orientation so they can

become an accurate searcher and make use of the right information at the

right time.

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CHAPTER III

 Method of Research

A feasibility study investigates the positive and negative outcomes of a

project before investing too much time and money. A feasibility study of

establishing a library hub e-net, is to aim the odds of having an internet in the

library, the possible thinking result of the respondents, the benefits and the

disadvantages.

 Subject of the Study

The Philippine Christian University (PCU) will be the researchers of our

future library hub e-net. We focus on our fellow Senior Student in PCU so

that our school will be aware of having a partnership in our business which is

feasibility study of establishing a library hub e-net. The student of PCU

Senior High will be easily solve their problems, especially in Research.

Library hub e-net is the speed solution for our better source.
  Description of Research Instrument

The questionnaire will be the open-ended question to easily get their

opinions and reaction. This kind of questionnaire by how? And why? So that

we can get their own opinions according to the questionnaire that we had

prepared.

 Data Gathering Procedure

Narrate the process and procedure undergone by the study then eventually

leads to the findings.

First, propose all the materials that we need to conduct the research,

the gadgets and especially the internet connection.

Second, research about the possible relate in your topic which is

“Feasibility study of establishing library hub e-net.”

Third, make sure that the information will not plagiarism, fabricatism

and falsification to avoid “Research Misconduct” and also make sure that it is

a “Legit Information.”

Fourth, after researching information, finding the location make sure

that location is populous people that can relate or the respondents that needs

in the topic. And the plan out all the procedures, explain properly so that the

panel will approved your proposal.