IJFANS International Journal of Food and Nutritional Sciences

ISSN PRINT 2319 1775 Online 2320-7876

THE ROLE OF INFORMATION COMMUNICATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND ITS IMPACT ON INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF STUDENTS

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Mr. Kirit Chandrala, Dr Rajesh H. Trivedi

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ICT a popular term information communication and technology is very popular in 21st century digital era. Implementation of it change the whole scenario. From manufacturing unit to education and services sectors change their working style because of ICT. Libraries are the important part of education institution and they are the heart where students, teachers, scholars and admin staff visit to update their knowledge. Implementing ICT in libraries is essential to give the future generation uptodate information from not only local sources but from the world at large. Researcher attempt to study role of ICT in academic libraries and its effect on information seeking behavior of students. Researcher collect primary data from literature review and 250 users are contacted with the help of questionnaire to ask their opinion about ICT enable library. After analyzing the data it is found that libraries are adopting the ICT base sources and services but there is lack of knowledge of using these resources properly.

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