Dynamics of Student Information Searching Behavior: Indian Perspective

The information age has brought dynamic change to countries, organizations, publics, groups and individuals. Labels like "The Information age", "The Information Society", "The Information era", "The Information Revolution" affixed to these societal changes have been many and varied in an effort to capture the essence of what is happening in today's world of information. Currently, the nation is undergoing major shifts from an agricultural society, to an Industrial society and now to an Information society. In order to cope with the situation, human, as a society or as individual is truly trying very hard to apprehend or fully comprehend the dynamic causes, processes and the management of effects of these changes. Besides, scientific and technological discoveries in computer and communication technologies, coupled with new socio-economic challenges of globalization and career opportunities etc have been the prime factors to make information so paramount for the individuals, more specifically for the student's community for the attainment of their purposive goal. With this objective the present book is written covering a comprehensive framework on the topic.