News Paper Reading Habit Among the Professional College Staff Members for Various Points of View: a Survey
INTRODUCTION
News papers have collected information from all directions. It helps to improve reading habit, knowledge skills and current awareness about world. Most of the people wish they read more. It is an activity that is both fun and enlightening. It can help us be more knowledgeable and successful. However, it is an activity that many people don’t engage in very much. According to the 1999 National Household Education Survey, 50% of the U.S. population aged 25 and over read a newspaper at least once a week, read one or more magazines regularly, and had read a book in the past 6 months. What does this mean? It means that 50% of the population hasn’t read a book in the last six months! And most of the staff members read the news papers for various purposes it’s clearly defined this article. So now a day news papers reading habit important for all the staff members because more information’s exist and to identify the latest development in their subject or field.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Begum and Ramesh (1991) investigated the Factors inhibiting the public library use; A case study of city central library, Mysore. This article “Factors inhibiting the public library use” analyzed the responses gathered from the users of the City central library, Mysore, India. Assesses the reading interests, factors inimical to the use of City central library, availability of reading materials and the necessary improvements suggested by the users to the existing conditions of City central library ., Mysore.
Somsong(1999), Reading habit promotion in ASEAN libraries. This paper described the different activities that ASEAN Libraries had undertaken to promote reading by increasing awareness among their people. Firstly, factors limiting reading habit in ASEAN Libraries had been approached. Secondly roles of local institutes or organizations in helping libraries conducting reading habit promotion had been acknowledged. Finally some suggestions on effective methods and successful programs of reading habit promotion by ASEAN Libraries had been collected
Bndaka(2007) investigated the using newspaper articles to develop students’ Reading skills in senior high school that the aim of this paper is to present a reading lesson which was initially designed for the students of Peiramatiko Senior High School (Experimental Senior High School) of Patras, Greece and more specifically for class A of Senior High School. The main aim of the lesson was to develop the students’ reading skills using a newspaper article and help student’s gain confidence when faced with authentic texts. The planning of the lesson was based on the belief that students should be exposed as much as possible to authentic reading texts so that they are given the chance to encounter real language and not only the language made up of course books
RESEARCH DESIGN
This topic deals with the content and the meaning of the undertaking study in terms of objectives and process of analyzing the formation of hypothesis. It also explains the methodology of study with respect to sampling from interview schedule, sources of data, method of data analysis and limitation of study.
Objectives
The main aim of the study is to analyze the News paper reading habit among the professional college staff members for various points of view: A survey. The following are the subsequent objectives:
1. To study the socio economic conditions of professional college staff members.
2. To study the news reading habit among the professional college staff communities.
3. To observed the professional college staff members read the news paper for various purpose
4. To make suggestions for the effective reading of news papers in the professional college staff community.
Methodology
For realizing the objectives of any study data, it is required and in turn, for the collection of data, a field is selected to realize the objectives of the study to collect data required for the purpose, the researcher choose News paper reading habit among the professional college staff members for various points of view: A survey
Method of data collection
For collecting the data the researcher has prepared interview schedule for the users and distributed to them. The empirical research design and random sampling technique was applied to select the sample.110 questioners were distributed to the sample and 105 were received back. Out of the 105 samples taken from professional college staff members in Einstein college of Engineering, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu. 11 samples were from professor and 24 samples were from Asst. professor. 39 samples were from lecturer, 28 samples were from Non teaching staff and 3 samples were from others staff community.
Data Analysis
The collected data were entered in the master table and sub-tables were created. The statistical tools like average and weighted percentage have been used.
ANALYSIS
SOCIO ECONOMIC BACKGROUND OF THE STAFF MEMBERS
Table.1
Distribution of professional college staff community according to Sex.
S.No Occupation Male Female Total
1 Professor 6
(54.5)
5
(45.5) 11
(10.5)
2 Asst. Professor 14
(58.3) 10
(41.7)
24
(22.8)
3 Lecturer 31
(79.5)
8
(20.5) 39
(37.1)
4 Non teaching staff 22
(78.6)
6
(21.4) 28
(26.7)
5 Others 2
(66.7)
1
(33.3) 3
(2.9)
Total 75
(71.4) 30
(28.6) 105
(100)
Note: * Source computed
** Entries within parenthesis denote percentage
The data in table 1 indicate the distribution of professional college staff members according to sex. Out of all the respondents, 71.4 percent are male followed by Female (28.6).
Among all the professional staff members, more than 75 percent of the respondents from male are seen in Lecturer (79.5) and Non teaching (78.6) staff communities and more female respondents are seen in Professor (45.5) and Asst. Professor (41.7) staff communities.
It is clearly seen from the above discussion that the more than 75 percent of male staff members in lecturer and Non teaching staff are reading the news paper then female.
Table.2
Distribution of professional college staff community according to their occupation wise.
S.No Occupation No. of Response No response
1 Professor 11(10.5) –
2 Asst. Professor 24(22.8) –
3 Lecturer 39(37.1) –
4 Non teaching staff 28(26.7) –
5 Others 3(2.9) –
Total 105(100) –
Note: * Source computed
** Entries within parenthesis denote percentage
The data in table 2 indicate the distribution of professional college staff according to their occupation wise. Out of all the respondents, Most of the respondents are lecturers (37.1) and followed by the non teaching staff (26.7), Asst. Professor (22.8), Professor (10.5) and few respondents (2.9) are others staff member
NEWS PAPER READING HABIT
Table.3
Distribution of professional college staff members according to the habit of reading news papers.
S.No
Professional college staff Habit of reading news papers
Total
Yes No
1 Professor 7
(63.6) 4
(36.4) 11
(10.5)
2 Asst..Professor 19
(79.2) 5
(20.8) 24
(22.8)
3 Lecturer 30
(76.9) 9
(23.1) 39
(37.1)
4 Non teaching staff 26
(92.8) 2
(7.2) 28
(26.7)
5 Others 1
(33.3) 2
(66.7) 3
(2.9)
Total 83
(79.0) 22
(21.0) 105
(100)
Note: * Source computed
** Entries within parenthesis denote percentage
The data in table 3 indicate the distribution of professional college staff members according to the habit of reading news papers. Out of all the total respondents, 79.0 percent are having the habit of reading news papers and (21.0) respondents do not have the habit of reading news papers.
Among all the professional college staff members , majority of respondents are from non teaching staff who are having the habit of reading news papers followed by Asst.Professor (79.2), and Professor (63.6). More respondents from others (66.2) do not have the habit of reading news papers.
Table.4
S.No Frequency Response Percentage
1 Daily 35 33.3
2 Twice or Thrice per week 31 29.5
3 Once in a week 22 21.0
4 Very rarely 17 16.2
5 Never 0 0.0
Total 105 100
Distribution of professional course staff members according to frequency of reading news papers
Source: computed
The data in table 4 indicate the distribution of professional course staff members according to the frequency of reading news papers. Among all the total respondents,