Abstract
Libraries in a college are designed and built with the primary objective of meeting the information needs of the students of their parent Institution. In an institution like college, libraries are constructed with a view to help the students for their all-round development. It can help the students in acquiring knowledge for building their character, thinking, and for passing the examinations. It can also help the students to know the unknown things, to make the person strong through acquiring required knowledge and to help in fulfilling their aim in life. So, libraries can play an important role in students’ life by supplying any type of knowledge they want through different techniques and ways. A library is said to be the heart of the institution. Now-a-days, without a suitable well-organized library, the college is not recognized by the concerned university. In every inspection of a college, the library is inspected by the inspection committee and after satisfied they will recommend for recognition of that particular college. Now, in a college, we know that there are different types of students coming to the libraries seeking different types of information. That means they need different types of information to fulfill their needs. Here, this study is undertaken to investigate the different types of information seeking behaviour of the students by taking some five college libraries of Assam. The overall purpose of this study is to find out the different types of information seeking behaviour of the students and to determine awareness of the students about the library service available to them.
Highlights
Information is very much essential in every one’s life
The overall purpose of this study is to find out the different types of information seeking behaviour of the students and to determine awareness of the students about the library service available to them
In today’s information based society, information plays an important role in fulfilling their needs
Summary
Information is very much essential in every one’s life. In today’s information based society, information plays an important role in fulfilling their needs. Students’ reading in a college/institution is not lagging behind in this area. They need different types of information to fulfil their needs. The process of information acquiring, using and implementing information are known as information seeking behaviour. In the case of students, it is even more important as because students’ life is the most important stage of life to become good human being and to build every one’s characters or to fulfil every body’s aim in life. To make a golden future, information in undergraduate level plays an Available Online : https://aipublisher.org/ajahss-volume-1-issue-1-november-2018/
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