Journal of FARM SCIENCES, Vol 34, No 5 (2021)

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A study on awareness and practices of digital resources by teaching faculty members of University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur

MANJULA VEERANNA, RAJKUMAR VEERANNA

Abstract


Digital resources are very important information sources available in both offline and online form. There has been alot of development in digital resources in recent years and are being used for education and improving knowledge. The use ofelectronic resources is essential for research and are being used in the form of free digital resources like books, journals edatabase.Earlier, information were communicated by manuscripts or through mouth, communication process system but Inrecent days these are being passed from one user to another user through social media easily and vastly. In Agriculturaluniversity level it is very important for teaching, research and extension. In the present study 150 random teaching facultywere involved who were given questioner and the results of the present study shows that 60 among 150 teaching faculty useddigital resources daily,65 faculty (43%) accessed this digital resources in home, 60(40%) users use Google as digital resourceand 66(44%) teaching faculty have experience in using digital resources. 6 months to a years, most use of digital resources for50(33.3%) e-journals and 48(32%) and e-books, 66(44%) for lack of IT knowledge use of teaching faculty members, and89(59.3%) use of digital resources, about how it has been improving their digital resources in the field of agriculture. Finallyit is a use of teaching, research, and extension work and knowledge purpose only.

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