In this age of information, the internet has added amazing changes to the educational and research world. This paper discusses about the role of information literacy and needfulness in academic environment. The information literacy will help to understand the relevance of information sources, products, and services to the library users at present digital era. It also gives the ability to understand the information and evaluate the fact and fiction to take the right decisions for the progress of the society to change the world into a knowledge society. Libraries also play a vital role in promoting information access and fostering information literacy. Libraries contribute to increased access digitally and physically mode to knowledge by gathering and organizing resources and making them freely available. The awareness of research-supported services, workshops; orientations organized by libraries are very much useful to its users.