Comparative Study of Use of Web-Based Patron Education in Top University Libraries in India and World: An Overview Dhamdhere Sangeeta N.1,*, Lihitkar Ramdas2, De Smet Egbert3 1Librarian, Modern College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshkhind, Pune, Maharashtra, India 2Librarian, Government Institute of Science, R.T. Road Civil Lines, Nagpur, Maharashtra 3Professor, Antwerp University, Prinsstraat 13, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgium *Corresponding author email id: modernlibrary.sangeeta@gmail.com
Online published on 7 June, 2019. Abstract In this study, the authors have studied 109 top university libraries spread all over the world and India and shortlisted important web-based patron educational services offered by these libraries to cope up with the changing demands of students and distance/online/flipped Classroom-based education. The author thoroughly went through the websites, blogs of traditional university libraries in the world as well as using the Google platform and searched the services offered by these libraries by going through their accounts on various platforms of online service providers. The overview of these services will be useful to the university as well as academic libraries to initiate new services. The comparative data analysis gives information about the current status of Indian and top World university libraries offering these services. Top Keywords Web-based patron education, Web-based library services, Indian university libraries, Educational technologies, University libraries, Libraries on the web, Web 2.0, Webometric ranking. Top |