Users’ awareness of WVSU library audiovisual science collections: Its effect to access and retrieval

Abstract

This action research was conducted to determine the awareness of the Faculty of the Biological Science Department of West Visayas State University (WVSU) of the different Science Collections of media materials of WVSU Library and its effect to access and retrieval. This study was conducted from June 15, 2007 to October 15, 2007. The subjects of the study are the twenty (20) Faculty members of Biological Sciences Department of WVSU. This action research utilized a questionnaire survey and statistical report to gather the data needed. The result revealed that the faculty unawareness of the science collections of non-print materials greatly affect the usage of the users in the statistics of use of the non-print materials from the last four years (2003-2006) and its increase on the statistic of use for 2007 report reveals an effective change on the awareness of users, the classification of the materials and its inclusion on the library database – the Athena and the provision of the current awareness to the library customers has brought an effectual access and retrieval of the materials.