Assessment of Information Literacy among the Students of PES's Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy

In the age of information communication technology, information has become one of the daily needs. Most simply, the information requires at every walk of human life. For both sender and receiver, the piece of information is to be structured and consistent for its right impact. In informal communication, unprocessed and unstructured information gets delivered, which required to be analyzed and processed with a set of skills to obtain the unique meaning. This paper studies the information-seeking behaviour, processing of the information, and information literacy of PES's Rajaram and Tarabai Bandekar College of Pharmacy at Ponda Goa. This paper aims to study the students' literacy level on the various academic aspects, including technical writings, modern writing tools, techniques, ethical use of information, and standard protocols and referencing, which are necessary in effective scholarly communications.