An attempt has been made to assess awareness & usefulness of CD – ROM databases by the users of Karnataka State Universities. The Karnataka State University provides CD-ROM databases to its users, for Research & Development activities. A questionnaire & interview schedule was designed to collect the relevant information. About 1578 questionnaires distributed, only 432 users were using CD-ROM databases. The percentage of using CD-ROM databases was 27.38%, the remaining 72.62% users were not using CD-ROM databases. 

Key words: Karnataka State University; CD-ROM databases; Bibliographical databases.