1.
Shabir Ahmad
– Librarian, Department Of Education, Govt. Of Jammu & Kashmir, India.
2.
Bilal Ahmad Dar
– Librarian, Department Of Education, Govt. Of Jammu & Kashmir, India.
3.
Javid Ahmad Lone
– Librarian, Department Of Education, Govt. Of Jammu & Kashmir, India.
Abstract
With the evolution of digital media, libraries and information centres are flooded with digital information. Due to the increasingly
complex nature of digital information, users are bombarded with dynamic and surplus information alternatives for their professional pursuits.
Also, in today’s digital information environment, information profoundly reaches to the end users in various forms; hence, the cause for its
originality, value and integrity remains a big challenge before the information scientists. To address this malady, the information literacy comes
into picture, which refers ability to identify information need and skill to locate, analyse and ultimately use the required information. The paper
attempts to analyse the information literacy skills of the students from the selected college of higher learning. Survey method has been adopted
to carry out the study wherein closed questionnaire has been framed-up to get the required data, which was analysed vis-a-vis the objectives of
the study. One wide-range finding of the study being that, most of the students are not well versed with the concept of information literacy and
utilization of modern day ICT-based information resources.
Keywords Digital Information, Digital Media, Information Literacy, Under-Graduate Students, Information Communication Technology (ICT), Library & Information Centres (LICs)
