Awareness of ICT Literacy Skills in Knowledge Based Societies: A Case Study

Abstract

The present study has been undertaken with a view to know the ICT literacy skills among the library users of Professional Institutes in Cachar District. The students, teachers, staffs and other members are mainly drawn from professional institutes. The present work was carried out during January to July 2013. For that purpose, survey method has been adopted, which comprises of questionnaire, for knowing the opinion of the respondents in respect of ICT literacy skills among the library users. The study result reveals that World Wide Web and email are the mostly preferred types of ICT which has been using by the respondents. The study also reveals that the slow access speed of internet is the major problem which users always find in the time of using internet