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All Rights Reserved. [URL:](URL: www.aessweb.com)[ ](URL: www.aessweb.com)[www.aessweb.com](URL: www.aessweb.com)  \nTHE USE OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TOOLS BY THE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES OF PAKISTAN  \nLiaquat Ali Rahoo1+ Muhammad Ali Khan Nagar2  \nArabella Bhutto3  \n1,2,3Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan  \n(+ Corresponding author)  \nABSTRACT  \nArticle History  \nReceived: 11 October 2018  \nRevised: 16 November 2018  \nAccepted: 31 December 2018  \nPublished: 23 January 2019  \nKeywords  \nInformation Retrieval IRT Tools University Mehran.  \nThe research examined the use of Information Retrieval Tools (IRTs) by the postgraduate students of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology. The research used descriptive survey and was carried out over a period of six months between August 2016 and January, 2017. The sample size comprise of 2,000 postgraduate students which were randomly selected from different faculties/institutes and were served with copies of the questionnaire. A total of 1,970 copies of useable questionnaire were retrieved which represent 98.5% response rate. The responses were collated and analyzed using frequency counts and percentages. The outcome shows that respondents make use of IRTs for a variety of purposes and that university library’s user education and information literacy program forms the key source of their knowledge of IRTs’usage. Through it, it can be safely concluded that the university library plays major role in assisting the students to make use of IRTs. Secondary findings show that the main IRTs made use of by the respondents is the Internet Search Engines. Furthermore findings of the study also revealed that the use of the tools has impacted positively on their social and academic life and has also enhanced their global knowledge of different issues. The major constraint to student’s use of the tools is that of Internet fluctuations. The paper concludes with recommendations on the need to give training on the use of IRTs to students.  \nContribution/ Originality: This study contributes in the library serveries of most useful tool for information management required for post graduate students’needs for information and information management for the research and development in the Sindh Province.  \n1. INTRODUCTION  \nInformation is found by post graduate students in the University libraries, information centers, and computer labs with support of emergence technologies. Emergence technologies have carried many alternate for the access to academic information for the academic development in the field of teaching and learning.  \nStudents can benefit from higher education electronic sources, including abstraction and indexing of the journals, to compile information required for higher education resources, including abstraction and indexing journals that can be used by students to gather current information required for research. All sources of information are available only in print, but in electronic form. It is now available from various types of sources, such as CDs,  \nInternet, OPAC, e-books and electronic journals, through the use of appropriate search strategies, including Boolean operators in the search engines.  \nThis is a huge amount of information in electronic and paper form abounds with tools for information retrieval (ERTS) for clear information retrieval. These tools have become a widely used service and have become an essential tool for finding information. Retrieving information means that development, information, and extraction of content from different sources of information files. Wikipedia also identifies access and activities to collect information from sources of information and sources of information retrieval. This also shows that many information retrieval systems at","cbCaitYxaussRSjO","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitYxaussRSjO","pdf",390820,"English","# ABSTRACT\n# INTRODUCTION\n# LITERATURE REVIEW","[{\"question\":\"What was the focus of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study focused on the use of Information Retrieval Tools (IRTs) by postgraduate students at higher educational institutes in Pakistan, specifically Mehran University of Engineering and Technology.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the research conducted and how many responses were collected?\",\"answer\":\"A descriptive survey was carried out over six months (August 2016 to January 2017). 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