Concept Of Digital Literacy

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This article gives insights on the basic concept of digital information literacy and what are all the components of digital literacy. This paper further discuss digital natives information seeking behavior in digital library and whether they have any awareness about copyright issues and security issues in digital environment. This paper explores digital information literacy and their components of Computer literacy, internet literacy, digital library literacy, ethical literacy, Emotional literacy, and security issues in digital Era. Primary goal of this study is to discusses the basic Digital information literacy skills among RRASE Engineering college in Chennai and found that students are skilled in internet and computer literacy but they …show more content…

They are using ICT in playing video games and chatting in social network, we have to engage them in online learning through mobile devices and promote the usage of library websites.
Librarians can arrange training programs in accompany with teachers for computer literacy.
3.4. Ethical Literacy
 Plagiarism Awareness
 Acknowledgement for previous works referred
 Giving references in their works
Today’s college graduates live in a world where it is important to understand key information policy issues. Intellectual property, privacy, and First Amendment issues are fundamental to operating as an informed citizen in today’s information society and directly affect the work of individuals who create, as well as use, networked information.
3.5. Emotional Literacy
Emotional literacy is to gain emotional intelligence
Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence1
 Self Awareness
 Self Management
 Social Awareness
Self awareness is to respond to the forums in internet and limit to share the privacy.
Self management with social networking sites. Face Book group study (Baylor,2014).Students who participated in the Face book group scored higher in quizzes and also in exams …show more content…

Objectives of Digital Information Literacy
 Focus on users ability in handling E-resources
 To find out the Digital information Literacy skills among Engineering college students in Chennai.
 To find out internet, computer, emotional and ethical skills among Engineering college students in Chennai.
 To make library users aware of fair use and unfair use of digital resources.
8. Scope of Digital information literacy
The study is restricted to RRASI engineering college students. The analysis of the data is based on the information provided by the respondents of Questionnaire. Period of study is 2013.
9. Methodology
Out of 800 students sample size of 100, a total of 150 questionnaires were distributed among the users and 120 questionnaires were obtained from the users from which 100 questionnaires were selected in respect of I yr- 25, II yr -25, III yr – 25 and final yr-25. Simple percentage method and simple assembling has been utilized in this paper.
10. Research Analysis
Table1. Year wise distribution of respondents Profile in SN sites No. of respondents Percentage %
I year 25 25%
II year 25 25%
III year 25 25%
IV year 25 25%
Total 100

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