Career Guidance Services for Unemployed Youth: A Case of Nadia District Library, West Bengal Munshi Shamim Aktar1,*, Ansari Mehtab Alam2, Faizan Mohd3 1Senior Research Fellow, Department of Library & Information Science, AMU-Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India 2Associate Professor, Department of Library & Information Science, AMU-Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, mehtabalamansari1@gmail.com 3Junior Research Fellow, Department of Library & Information Science, AMU-Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India, faiz.times@gmail.com *Corresponding author email id: munshishamim14@gmail.com
Online published on 7 June, 2019. Abstract This study aims to know how the Nadia District Library has encouraged the unemployed youth for the preparation of various competitive examinations by providing useful information resources and services. It also assesses the perceptions of unemployed youth who are using the Career Guidance Section. Investigators have applied the survey method along with the questionnaire as a tool for data collection. Two sets of semistructured questionnaires were prepared i.e. one for the staff of the Career Guidance Section and another for its users. The study revealed that the library has created a separate Career Guidance Section in 2010–2011 for job seekers whereas quite a large number of competitive examination books, magazines, reports, multimedia information like CDs, DVDs, etc. are available. Besides these, the library also organize various career counselling programmes to encourage the students and unemployed youth. The finding also shows that majority of the participants are satisfied with the library resources, services and facilities. However, some of the services and facilities are needed to be improve from the user's point of view. Authors have also suggested some of the valuable suggestions which are discussed at the end. Top Keywords Career guidance services, Nadia district library, Public library, West Bengal. Top |