Awareness and Acceptance of Information Literacy Among the University Students: A Case Study of North India

Information plays a very significant role in the economic and social development of a country. The present study deals with the awareness and use of Information Literacy (IL). The study is based on a primary data collated with the help of a structured questionnaire. The study reveals that majorityof LIS students are aware of information literacy but the students from the other group are not. Majority of students confuse information literacy with information search skills, computer literacy, digital literacy, network literacy, and cultural literacy. The study also discussed the inclusion of information literacy as a part of syllabus in higher educatio