1Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, 585 106, Karnataka, INDIA. E-mail: suresh_jange@rediffmail.com
2Department of Library and Information Science, Gulbarga University, Gulbarga, 585106, Karnataka, INDIA. E-mail: lalitha_same@rediffmail.com
The main objective of the survey is to understand the optimum utilization of Internet facilities and services, search strategy adopted, level of satisfaction derived and the problems encountered while surfing the net from the netizens of National Institutes of Technology, India. 665 questionnaires were duly obtained with a response rate of 78.24% out of 850. The most popular perception of Internet technology is ‘Wealth of huge useful current information’ and E-mail service and World Wide Web (WWW) are the most frequently used Internet services among the engineering community and opined fairly better satisfaction with the current state of Internet to support in their academic and research activities. The results indicated valuable information about Internet users search strategies and their level of satisfaction in using the web. Further analysis suggests challenges to optimize the Internet services for academic librarians and opportunities in extending quality Internet services, with a note for Library managers to take a lead in providing Internet services.
National Institutes of Technologies, India, Internet users, Challenges, Opportunities, Trend report
