Opac in an academic library- a study

The present study is undertaken in St. John’s College, Anchal in order to know the use of OPAC by students. The main objective of the study are to assess as to what extent the users are using OPAC and to find out the purpose of use of OPAC. Majority of the respondents (i.e., 162 which is 75%) use OPAC alone for search. 15 respondents (6.94%) use all types of catalogues according their needs and circumstances A big number of respondents (192, i.e., 88.89%) use the OPAC/Web OPAC for searching mainly Books. Out of 216 respondents 98 (45.37%) prefer Title search using the OPAC/Web OPAC. Subject search, Any Word/Name search and Author search are given first preference by 53 (24.54%), 48 (22.22%) and 17 (7.87%) respectively.