Communicating Information to Indian Fashion Educators: Periodical Preferences in the Resource Centre, National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Delhi

Periodical literature plays a critical role in communicating information to the fashion educators in India. This paper deals with the impact of the changing nature of information needs of fashion educators and their usage of fashion periodicals at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) Delhi. The paper is in two parts. The first part discusses the transformation of fashion education in India and its impact on the periodical collection in the Resource Centre of NIFT. The second part reports the findings of a survey of preferences of periodicals by the fashion educators of NIFT Delhi. Design faculty used consumer and trade magazines. The findings of this survey can be accepted as a trend among the fashion educators of design departments at NIFT.