Digital information literacy among social science students and research scholars in bangalore university : a study

Abstract

In the present transition era of information communication technology the students and scholar community are facing difficult to tap the Information resources from the new various kinds of formats and from different databases The ability to retrieve evaluate and use of information resources is a prerequisite for lifelong learning and a basic need for the information era At the University level students are expected to contact independent exploration in various disciplines and topics and therefore irrespective of their subjects of study they need to access information effectively The rapid development of ICT Information and Communication Technologies has given rise to the different new jargons like paperless society Electronic information resources portal gateway and global web library Digital literacy is a more recent concept than information literacy and can interlink to multiple categories of library users in different types of libraries