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The descriptive analysis is based on well structured, close-ended questionnaires which were distributed among 450 teachers. 408 of them responded from whom 376 work in General Degree Colleges and 32 in Teachers ʼ Training Colleges. The analysis of the data shows that teachers still depend mainly on printed documents, but a changing attitude is taking place in the current ICT environment as they also start to depend on electronic documents for meeting their information needs. This paper also explores the sources used by the teachers of both groups for research activities, focusing on the variability in the use of such sources of information. Additionally, this study reveals the attitudes of the teachers towards the services provided by the libraries. It is recommended that the college libraries are restructured with internet facilities and sufficient resources, in order to meet the information needs of the college teachers. In this context, the college librarians should provide basic software training to the users, to help them access the electronic sources.  \nKeywords: electronic documents, general degree colleges and teachers ʼ training colleges, information needs, information seeking behaviour  \nIntroduction  \nInformation is linked with the socio-economic conditions prevailing in a community and it is considered to be an important attribute of the process of social development. Due to the enormous increase in the volume of the relevant literature, especially in the field of science and technology, the present situation has given birth to the concept of information explosion. This term describes the currently occurring phenomenon of data superfluity attributed to the vast volume of published information; in this context, controlling and organizing information, in a way such that the problem of information overload is avoided, is a quite challenging task. These phenomena of information explosion and overload have created the need for an in-depth analysis of the relevant needs and information seeking behavior of different groups of users. The group under question in this study is the teacher community, being gravely concerned about the modern patterns and trends of acquiring information.  \n􀀍 Librarian, Satyapriya Roy College of Education, India.  \n[https://doi.org/10.30958/aje.2-3-6](https://doi.org/10.30958/aje.2-3-6) doi=10.30958/aje.2-3-6  \nWilson (2000) has described information-related behaviour as the totality of human behaviour in relation to sources and channels of information, including both active and passive information-seeking and use. The development of information technology has offered the academic community various opportunities to access information resources in a variety of formats; via print, CD-ROMs, databases, Web OPAC, etc.  \nThe traditional lecture is no longer the only method available to the college teachers. They need to explore new avenues in order to make classroom teaching more interesting. The teachers engaged in training already have some sort of ideas about how to improve lectures, while those teaching in general degree colleges, and particularly the younger ones, are still in the process of seeking information on how to acquire such modern methods. This is a natural consequence of the fact that Teachers ʼ Training Colleges (TTCs) give emphasis on the teaching methods of different subjects rather than the exhaustive approach in the subject field, being specifically concerned about the classroom teaching, lesson plan and pedagogy of various subjects. 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