Information Consumption Behaviour of School Students
a case study of Patrasayer block secondary and higher secondary schools at Bankura district inWest Bengal
Keywords:
Indian school, Information consumption behaviour, Information seeking behaviour, Information use pattern, Patrasayer block, Reading habits, School libraryAbstract
This paper focuses on the information consumption behaviour of school students in the Patrasayer block of the Bankura district in the state ofWest Bengal, India. The purpose of the study is to help the school students who use school libraries and other libraries by assessing how far they are satisfied using their school library and other libraries. For this study, 380 students were taken as a sample from nineteen secondary and higher secondary schools from the block. The methodology includes data collection and data analysis. A structured questionnaire has been provided to all 380 students of those nineteen schools. There, lots of parameters have been studied and critically analysed to assess the information use pattern of the school students. It is found that a lot of indicative results on different parameters set for the data analysis. The major finding is 1. 98.15% of students preferred the Bengali language; 45% of students visit the library once a week; 43.94% of students are getting their resources and articles for higher studies from the Internet. This type of information is available in the school library and other libraries, but 14.21% of students visit their library to access this information. Alibrary has an important role for school students and the young generation. It is the school library that
inculcates reading habits and motivates students to find out the appropriate ways to access information and knowledge to satisfy different needs in the future.
