  The study investigated the use of electronic resources/information by library
users in selected colleges of Solapur University. Specifically, to investigate
the awareness and level of use of electronic resources; perceived reliance,
benefits and impact of use of electronic resources on the research activities.
The research design for the study was a survey. Questionnaire schedule was used
to collect data from 1022 library users from selected colleges of Solapur
University. The result revealed that preponderance of users from aided 33.51%
Self financing 26.10% and Education colleges 43.24 % preferred to visit the
Library once in three days. While analyzing the entire college libraries
regarding the frequency of visit, users gave first preference to once in three
days i.e. 27.2%. College wise analysis reveals that mainstream of users from
Aided Colleges 38%, Self financing Colleges 28.3%, Engineering Colleges 43%,
Education colleges 53.2% and Pharmacy Colleges 23.4% are spending their time
1-2 hrs in libraries and 40.8%visit college libraries to issue and return books
and in the device usage (33.9%) of users ranked mobile phone as the second
device for accessing the e-resources. It is noticeable that 24.7% of users
acknowledge from Aided Colleges know about the services of the Library from
website but in Self Finance Colleges 8.5% and Pharmacy College 56.4% users
aware about the services from the friends it is observed that most of the web
technologies are not used by the mainstream of the users due to lack of
awareness, training etc.
