Library Progress (International)

  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue: 2

Measuring users’ attitudes towards internet: A study

  • Author:
  • S Gopalakrishnan, T Saravanan
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 191 to 197

Department of Library & Information Science, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamilnadu, India.

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Abstract

Internet, WWW, Search Engines etc., are unavoidable things now-a-days. Users who are in the higher educational sector depend on digital technology, without which their routines are not easy one. Their day to day activities have been tied with these kinds of Technology. Visiting many places for accessing information was a barrier in earlier days and they have been removed by the modern technology in the present digital era. Accessing any information from anywhere is possible now that can be done when we have the sophisticated infrastructure. Internet brings all to our location to fulfill our requirements. This study helps to realize the modern users’ attitudes towards the Internet. Library visit, frequency, purposes etc., have been studied here.

Keywords

User attitude, Internet, Higher education