Library Progress (International)
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 41
  • Issue: 1

Assessment of Digital Information Literacy Skills among the Library and Information Science Students of the University of Delhi

  • Author:
  • Ravi Shukla1, Faizul Nisha2, Manoj Kumar Verma3*
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Published Online: Jul 14, 2021
  • Page Number: 1 to 8

Research Scholar, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram796004, India E-mail: shukladlisbhu@gmail.com

Technical Officer, DESIDOC, New Delhi. E-mail: faizul16k@gmail.com

Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram796004, India E-mail: manojdlis@mzu.edu.in

*Corresponding Author: Manoj Kumar Verma, Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Mizoram University, Aizawl, Mizoram796004, India E-mail: manojdlis@mzu.edu.in

Abstract

The present study aims to assess the digital information literacy skills among the library and information science students of the University of Delhi. The survey method has been found suitable to conduct the study in which a structured 80 questionnaires were distributed randomly among the students of DLIS and 72 (90%) of questionnaires were received from the respondents. After the analysis of the questionnaires, it has been found that the maximum 57 (79.17%) students were using a computer daily and they are familiar with MS office application software. All the students were well aware of Internet literacy skills and also they all are using the Internet in which the large number i.e. 66 (91.67%) students were using it everyday. The maximum 69 (65.71%) of students were using the Internet through their mobile data while a large number 69 (56.1%) of students using the simple searching technique.

Keywords

Information Literacy, Digital Literacy, University of Delhi, Library and Information Science