A best practice is a set of procedures to do things in best possible ways. In libraries, best practices are adopted to attract users towards library and to provide them prompt library service at right time in right way. Best practices can be innovative and can be philosophical. It is a way to lay down policy, strategy, programme, process or practice that solves a problem or create new opportunities and positive impact on organization. Best practices add commendable value to an institution, considered as reliable benchmarking or standards of quality, tools for the continuous improvement of products, process and services. It consistently shows result superior to those achieved with other means. The type of best practices vary from organization to organization. The practice suitable for one organization may not be feasible for another, so the need of user and type of user should be considered before planning best practices for a particular institute.

Today is the era of information explosion. The beginning of the 21st century has been called the Information Age cause of the explosion of information resources. It has become increasingly clear that students cannot learn everything they need to know about their field of study in a few years of college. Information literacy equips them with the critical skills necessary to become independent learners. Too often we assume that as students write research papers and read textbooks they are gaining sufficient Information Literacy skills. This is not so. Information
Literacy skills may be introduced but what is needed is a parallel curriculum in Information Literacy forming a strong foundation of a college education.