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An attempt has been made to examine the academic users' perceptions about the e-resources that exist in the central library of Annamalai University. Along with the users library visit frequencies their perceptions (Saravanan)3,4 about the selected e-resources have been considered in this study. A few graphical distributions that are related to the hypothetical values as well as sample dispersions also included for better understanding. The formulated research questions in this study include; do the users significantly differ in their library visits? ; do the users' perceptions of e-resources significantly differ? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the level of Internet awareness among library users. The study conducted by the authors made use of 250 respondents from the Faculty of Arts of the Annamalai University in Tamilnadu, India who were asked to answer a well structured questionnaire. They revealed that, based on the returned questionnaires, Commerce students expressed that 57.50% of them have sufficient knowledge of the World Wide Web and that daily and adequate use of the library did not affect the respondent's Internet awareness. They conclude that there is no linear relationship between library users' library visits and their awareness of the Internet.