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Information Literacy Skills on Utilization of the E-Resources and SNS Among the Dentistry Students of Ragas Dental College, Chennai

S. Ganesan , S. Ganesan , K. Kaliyaperumal

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Indian Journal of Library and Information Sciences 7(3):p 259-267, Sept - Dec 2013. | DOI:

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Information literacy is set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyse for efficient use of information. In the information age, the information literacy skills are essential, since the explosion of information output and information sources. The literature growth in the field of medicine, unassessable and ever growing in exponential ratio and quick obsolence. In this context the medical students are find difficulties in getting awareness and availability of resources in the electronic forms for their day to day activities. As such, the study is carried out among the student users of Ragas Dental college library, which is one of the leading library in the field of dentistry. The results show that students are having ICT skills along with knowledge about Social Networking Sites (SNS) . Though, the information literacy programmes run by the library are effective to the students but not bringing out expected results. 

Keywords: Information literacy; Use of e-resources; Social networking service; Dentistry students and Ragas Dental College. 

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