A Study on ICT Literacy and Internet Use Pattern among College Library Users of Barak Valley, South Assam, North East India

The present study was carried out for the purpose of knowing the present status of ICT awareness, extent of Internet Literacy and Internet Use Patterns among the College Library Users of Barak Valley, South Assam. The sample of the study (college library users) comprises of mainly undergraduate students, faculty members, research scholars, and Staff working in ten selected colleges under the study where the penetration of Computer and Internet is very low and the college library users are not very much comfortable using computers . For the present study, survey method has been adopted using mainly questionnaire as a tool for data collection. In some cases, the researchers conducted interview of the participants to ascertain the data collected through questionnaire. The self designed questionnaire comprising of 25 questions was prepared and distributed amongst the randomly selected samples of college library users which comprises of undergraduate students (UG students) ,faculty members, research scholars, and college Staff. The filled up questionnaires was collected from the respondents for the data analysis and interpretations. On the basis of filled in questionnaire, the collected data have been tabulated and analysed using SPSS and MS-Excel software. For data analysis percentage technique was adopted.