Socio-cultural approach to digital information literacy of postgraduate students in Sri Lanka

Abstract

In today’s information era, combined with technological advancement, most of the information is presented in the digital form. Therefore, the individuals who deal directly with information should be fluent in handling digital information or they should be digital information literate, since creating a digital literate student community is responsibility of librarians and Information Science and Technology teachers. The current study is a socio-cultural approach to investigate the digital information literacy level of postgraduate students in Sri Lanka. Hundred and fifty subjects from two reputed universities in Sri Lanka were included in the study, and the results clearly indicate a higher shift towards digital information literacy skills among the post graduates. Based on this study, recommendations have been made to develop the infrastructure facilities at university level, and to facilitate the availability of more digital information literacy programs for postgraduate students through their respective libraries.