Abstract In the 21st-century knowledge society, academic libraries are central to institutions and are challenged for their relevance amidst disruptive technological innovations and competition. This paper aims to understand the pattern of library funding in the top Indian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) by comparing their library budgets. Using data from the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2019 ranking of institutions we analyzed the library budgets to find out if there are correlations between the ranking of the institution against the budget of concerned academic libraries comparing the data in three independent categories of the NIRF Rankings 2019 which are: Overall, Universities and Colleges categories. Findings indicate that, although universities and colleges have a higher number of enrolled students to serve in comparison to overall HEIs, spend lesser capital towards the teaching-learning activities. This assessment finds a significant positive correlation between capital expenditure and the national ranking score in all three categories of ranking. Results confirm a strong correlation between the library expenditure and national ranking score, indicating that the institutions spending more towards libraries also score higher in the national rankings. The study also found that on an average Rs. 7491 is spent by Indian HEIs per user, while universities and colleges spent Rs. 4369 and Rs. 370.66, respectively. These findings will be of importance to higher education policymakers, academic administrators, librarians and funding agencies—evaluating academic libraries to achieve higher rankings. The findings have implications in linking the library expenditure to rankings.

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全国高等教育机构排名与高校图书馆资助的相关性：实证分析

摘要 在 21 世纪的知识社会中，学术图书馆是机构的核心，并且在颠覆性的技术创新和竞争中面临着相关性的挑战。本文旨在通过比较印度顶级高等教育机构 (HEI) 的图书馆预算，了解其图书馆资助模式。使用来自国家研究所排名框架 (NIRF) 2019 年机构排名的数据，我们分析了图书馆预算，通过比较 NIRF 三个独立类别的数据，找出机构排名与相关学术图书馆预算之间是否存在相关性2019 年排名为：总体而言，大学和学院类别。调查结果表明，尽管与高等教育机构的整体相比，大学和学院有更多的在校学生可供服务，但在教学活动上花费的资金较少。该评估发现，在所有三类排名中，资本支出与全国排名得分之间存在显着的正相关。结果证实图书馆支出与国家排名得分之间存在很强的相关性，表明对图书馆支出较多的机构在国家排名中的得分也更高。该研究还发现，平均卢比。印度高等教育机构为每位用户花费 7491 美元，而大学和学院花费了卢比。4369 和卢比。分别为 370.66。这些发现对高等教育政策制定者、学术管理人员、图书馆员和资助机构——评估学术图书馆以获得更高的排名。研究结果对将图书馆支出与排名联系起来有影响。