Information Seeking Behaviour in Ict Environment: a Study on Faculty & Students of Mumbai Colleges

Today, Information and Communication Technology has developed rapidly and has had a huge impact on access to information and on information seeking behaviour. Library staff must know and examine the criteria of information seeking and information used by the users for providing information services, designing new information systems, intervening in the operation of existing systems, or planning in service programmes. This book provides the status of Information and Communication Technology in commerce college libraries in Mumbai. The kind of information do faculty and students seek? Methods used, Information and Communication Technology used by the faculty and students in seeking information. The problems of seeking information and how it can be solved. Type of communication channels used to gather latest information; the sources of information used in performing specific research activities; and duration of the time spent in browsing and reading literatures by faculty and students. The present book offers elegant study on information seeking behaviour of faculty and students among commerce colleges in Mumbai in the changing (Information and Communication Technology) environment.