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Information Seeking Behaviour in Changing ICT Environment: A Study of Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu

Information Seeking Behaviour in Changing ICT Environment: A Study of Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu

G. Stephen, M. Murugan
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781466681781|ISBN10: 1466681780|EISBN13: 9781466681798
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8178-1.ch016
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Stephen, G., and M. Murugan. "Information Seeking Behaviour in Changing ICT Environment: A Study of Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu." Handbook of Research on Inventive Digital Tools for Collection Management and Development in Modern Libraries, edited by S. Thanuskodi, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 269-285. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8178-1.ch016

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Stephen, G. & Murugan, M. (2015). Information Seeking Behaviour in Changing ICT Environment: A Study of Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu. In S. Thanuskodi (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Inventive Digital Tools for Collection Management and Development in Modern Libraries (pp. 269-285). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8178-1.ch016

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Stephen, G., and M. Murugan. "Information Seeking Behaviour in Changing ICT Environment: A Study of Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu." In Handbook of Research on Inventive Digital Tools for Collection Management and Development in Modern Libraries, edited by S. Thanuskodi, 269-285. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8178-1.ch016

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Abstract

Information is all around us and is the staple diet of human beings. Information is variously perceived as facts, intelligence, data, news and knowledge. Information has been a common ingredient to all areas of human endeavor, be it the day-today affairs of business, matters of life and death or the most trivial of pursuits. In a modern industrial society there are negligibly few individuals, who do not, from time to time, occasionally or frequently have any requirement for information. It is an essential accompaniment of almost every social activity. Information is considered as important that contributes towards the development of a nation. It provides the core for the development of knowledge, the basis for innovations, the resources for informed citizenry, and as a result, becomes a key commodity for the progress of a society. This study carried out about the use of ICT services to search the information. It is clear that most of the respondents 84.9% use to browse the internet for study purpose, 76.9% of the respondents use ICT services to use e-mail facility, 59.3% respondents use for to search online database, 46.9% of the respondents use ICT services for to access e- journal, 30.1% of the respondents use ICT services for to search CD-ROM database and 29.2% of the respondents use to use OPAC services.. A few respondents use ICT for to scan/ print (29.2).

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