CHAPTER –II
REVIEW OF THE RELATED
LITERATURE
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REVIEW OF THE RELATED LITERATURE
A number of the existing works have been surveyed with a view to assessing the
work already done.. The literature survey has been done with the help of primary
and secondary sources.
Hollands (1997) explains the need to promote the use of internet based
information services among teaching and research staff at a university in the U.K
Lazinger et al. (1997) conducted a survey of the faculty members of the Herbrew
University of Jerusalem Provided data on internet access as of 1995.The results
showed higher usage by the members of the faculties of science. Medicine and
agriculture than the members of the faculties of social science and humanities.
Becker (1998) conducted a study on the Internet use by 2250 teachers from public
and private schools in the U.S. The study revealed that 90% of the teachers had
Internet access. More than half of the teachers (59%) had Internet access at home
.A majority of the teachers (68%) used Internet to find information resources for
preparing their lessons.
Singh (1998) conducted a research study on the use of Internet by the librarians in
Malaysia. The main findings of the study indicated that 90% of the respondents
used the Internet for work related purposes. Most of the respondents were recent
users.
Timothy T. Perry, Leslie Anne Perry, Karen Hosack-Curlin (1998)
investigated this study sought to determine if differences exist among various age
groups regarding students’ use of the Internet. Surveys were administered to 548
students from three regional universities in the southeastern USA. Survey
responses were then analyzed to determine how many students regularly use the
Internet, how many hours per week regular users spend on the Internet, and what
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computers they use. Information was also tabulated for use of e-mail, use of the
Internet to obtain university information, and for the number of students who had
home pages.
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