Information Seeking Behavior of the Engineering College Students, Gandhinagar

Abstract

The paper presents about various attitudes and behavior in seeking information of engineering college students. Analysis shows that majority of engineering students have visited library AlterNet day and they have spend time of 5 – 10 hours during a week. Students have satisfied with the collection of Text books, Reference books, Magazines and Journals facilities in the library. Their purpose of information seeking is for reading. Student has to agree with the Need for Instruction/Guidance for Using Various Information Sources. Students have using internet for downloading programmes and for preparing Research work. Students mostly used the Books circulation and Internet services frequently in the library. The study shows that majority of students have faced Availability of too much information by frequently.