Users’ Information Literacy Competencies: A Study with Reference to Scholarly Community of Kashmir University

Abstract

Information literacy refers to the abilities of an individual in identifying, retrieving and utilising appropriate and required information. It is the process of implementing a accurate information behaviour through proper medium or channel to obtain the requisite information judiciously. The present study has been carried out to assess the information literacy skills of the scholarly community of University of Kashmir. For this study, a well structured questionnaire was administered among 100 research scholars of the University comprising of 55 male and 45 female respondents. Out of 100 questionnaires, 99 were received back from 55 male and 44 female respondents respectively. These 99 questionnaires were used for the present study. The result of the study reveals that information literacy skills form an important role in the retrieval of relevant, timely and up-to-date information. After the analysis of data some suggestions have also been given on the basis of results for the effective and proper information literacy among users.