The storage of information lies within the basic components called binary devices, and at present, storage media falls into two categories—random and serial (or sequential) access—which require different amounts of time to access a given piece of data. The typical serial-access medium is magnetic tape, which has a storage density that has increased considerably over the years. Vast quantities of source data are collected, digitized, and compressed automatically by means of unique instruments in fields such as astronomy, environmental monitoring, scientific experimentation and modelling, and national security. Information capture that is generated by an individual, in the form of packages of symbols called documents, is accomplished by manual and, increasingly, automatic techniques. Data that is entered into instruments manually, such as keyboard strikes, is a process that is comparatively slow and error-prone and often requires the use of computer programs with supporting editing software for formatting, grammar, spelling, and more. With the evolution of technology and its impact on human society, the social sciences have begun to describe this new version of society as a post-industrial or the information/knowledge society. Such terms attempt to capture the unprecedented development and use of information and communication technologies and the fact that information generation, processing, and transmission have become the fundamental sources of productivity and power. An exploration into the impacts of the modern knowledge society on the ways in which academic researchers utilize, distribute, and record data from their fields of study is necessary for further comprehension, protection, and maintenance of this ever-expanding body of information.

Information Literacy Skills and the Role of Social Media in Disseminating Scholarly Information in the 21st Century analyzes the various factors of information literacy skill for disseminating scholarly information in the 21st century and increases the awareness level of social media use by researchers for sharing information. Covering topics such as information literate pedagogy, information literacy instruction, and ICT and learning in the knowledge society, this book is ideal for librarians, teachers, research scholars, students of library and information science, knowledge mangers, and information scientists.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Electronic Information Access on Information Literacy Skills Towards Disseminating Scholarly Information
Electronic Resources Access Environment on Research Perspectives in the Knowledge Society
ICT and Learning in the Knowledge Society
Information Behavior on Professionals’ Experiences of the Social Science Researchers
Information Literacy Instruction
Information Literacy Practice on Social Media in the Higher Education Landscape
Information Literate Pedagogy
Library Environments on Social Media Use
Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining
Social Networking and Web 2.0 in Information Literacy for Research in the 21st Century

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C. Baskaran is presently serving as the Librarian/Professor in Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. He successfully completed a Major Research Project has funded by ICSSR, New Delhi and currently also taking up a Major Research Project from same funding agency (ICSSR). He has authored three books in Library and Information Science. He is a research guide in the Dept. of Library and Information Science, Alagappa University and he guided and awarded eight Ph.D scholars and eight Scholars pursuing Ph.D under his guidance. He has published more than 100 articles to his credit. He was an adjudicator and examiner for Viva-voce exams of Many Ph.D in several Universities. Moreover, he is an editor of a Journal and Editorial advisory board member for journals of Library and Information Science. He visited and Presented papers at International Conferences in Malaysia and Greece. He has been holding charge additionally SWAYAM /MOOCs Co-ordinator of the University. He is a recipient of EET-Award of Research Excellence-2019.

Dhanavandan S. is working as Deputy Librarian at Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur-610005 from 2017 onwards, Before joining in CUTN, he served as Assistant Librarian at ‘The Gandhigram Rural Institute – Deemed to be University’, Gandhigram. He is having more than twenty three years in the LIS profession. Six Ph.D degrees were awarded under his guidance. He has published more than 140 articles in National and International Journals and more than 175 papers presented and published in National and International Conferences. He authored/edited more than 35 books in Library and Information Science and contributed 65 Chapters in edited books. He has attended more than 50 Seminars/Workshops, Webniars and training programmes. Three times he has received Cash Award (more than One Lakh) for the best articles from Konkuk University, South Korea. He served as Chairperson and Resource Person in many workshops, conferences and also organized fifteen workshops and conferences.

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