Information Needs and Information Seeking Behaviour of College Library Users of Cachar District, Assam: A Case Study

The present study was undertaken with a view to know the status of information seeking behaviour of college library users of Cachar district, Assam which comprises of undergraduate students faculty members and research scholars. The respondents of the present study are mainly drawn from the five selected college libraries of Cachar district, Assam where the penetration of Computers and Internet is very low and teachers, research scholars and students are not very much comfortable using computers. For that purpose, survey method has been adopted by the investigators, which comprises of administration of questionnaire, observation of the participants, and interview of some of the participants for knowing the status of Information Seeking Behaviour of the respondents in respect of library visit, preference of reading materials pertaining to their academic and research activities. The self designed questionnaire has been distributed amongst the randomly selected samples. The samples comprise of UG students, faculty members, research scholars, and Staff. The filled up questionnaires have been collected from the respondents for the data analysis and interpretations. On the basis of filled up questionnaire the data has been. For data analysis percentage technique has been adopted.