Information Seeking Behaviour of Users of T.S. Central State Library, Chandigarh

Public libraries are the manifestation of Democracy. They are the store house of intellectual works of our forefathers. They are charged with the responsibility to connect the society with education. The current study was undertaken to determine the Information Seeking Behaviour of T.S. Central State Library, Chandigarh. “The Information Seeking behavior is mainly concerned with who needs what type of information for what reason; how information is found, evaluated and used” (Kumar, 1990). The motive was to understand their information requirements and the problems they faced, so that the library may serve their needs in a better way. The study was carried out with the help of structured questionnaires to analyze the information seeking behavior of different types of users and indiscriminately selected 118 users of the library. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics which include frequency count percentages and tables.