A Study on Librarian’s Professional Awareness on an open Educational Resource in India
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https://doi.org/10.48165/Keywords:
Awareness, Use, Preferred types, Open Educational Resources, IndiaAbstract
The paper is discusses about the awareness of Awareness on an open Educational Resource among the library professionals in India. Due to the pandemic situation, online questionnaires in the Google form were used to collect the data from the library professionals who are working in higher educational institutions in India. The impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic situation, totally 270 responses were only received. It resulted that the among 270 professionals, 41.11% are mentioned ‘Quality and Reliability of Information’ which includes 35.19% of them ‘College Librarian’, 4.44% of them ‘University Assistant Librarian’ and 1.48% of them ‘University Librarian.
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