Redeeming the information overload: A case study on Doon University, Dehradun

Higher education in India is in a process of transition, from traditional, colonial and static system to a more competitive system based on global market philosophy. The present survey provides an insight to the status of information awareness and literacy among the students of Doon University. Thus, there is a pressing need for empirical analyses to identify the extent to which university students are information-literate. Therefore, an investigation of university students from Doon University, Uttarakhand was carried out in order to determine how they evaluate the information literacy standard.