Use of Journals among Law Students in the University of Colombo, Law College & KDU

Abstract

Information is an indispensable for human development as air is essential for the survival of all living organisms on earth. Information technology enabled services fulfill the information needs of the users at the right time in the right place to the right person. Among variety of resources, journals are important to access the latest information. The objectives of the study are to identify the necessity of using journals by Law students and to find out issues they have to face in retrieving, using or content. The study is based on survey research strategy. Questionnaires were used for the data collection. Microsoft Excel was used to analyze the collected data. Under the survey research method, three institutions were used as the sample and also used 150 Law students in mentioned institutions. Result reveals that the most of the students used journals for them researches and assignments. Issues of they have to face were lack of awareness of Law journals in their libraries. Consumption on finding journals articles which they required. The studies suggest raise awareness of readers about the coordination of periodical section journal and also the seeking of journals, using the systematic and continual searching tricks and methods for easing off the accession in to journal. Presenting the newly acquired journals for readers and publishing hand book consisted information of periodical section for raising awareness of users about latest journals by the library