This study investigated information needs and seeking behaviour of undergraduate students in the library of federal university of technology and imo state university library, owerri using a comparative approach. This study involved a qualitative investigation of consulting engineers information needs and informationseeking behaviour within the context of their projectrelated work roles and tasks. Understanding teachers information needs, perceived. Further research is also needed to examine the applicability of these findings to other contexts. Reviews research studies on the information needs and informationseeking behaviour of rural dwellers in developed and developing countries. The information needs and informationseeking behaviour of. However, researchers and clinicians, even those in the same college, often have very different information needs, with clinicians requiring quick, concise information and researchers requiring more indepth information. This study was undertaken to discover the informationseeking behaviour of academics and their use of the library at lincoln university of new zealand.
The study aimed at investigating the information needs and information seeking behaviour of the rural farmers. Information behaviour various definitions of information behaviour have been given by researchers. The purpose of this paper is to determine the information needs and information seeking behavior of college faculty i. Research into informationseeking behavior occupies a niche at the intersection of psychology, management, communications, and information science. The assessment explores information needs and communications channels, as well as trust networks and issues of language and literacy. Information needs and seeking behaviour of business students. When attitudes and actions are collaborated the performance emerges. Information and children information needs and information seeking behaviour of children is defined as the provision of desirable, up to data factual knowledge to the children at the appropriate time to enhance their welfare and ways or patterns pursued by them in an attempt to resolve an information need or needs.
Reviews research studies on the information needs and information seeking behaviour of rural dwellers in developed and developing countries. Purpose the paper reports a study which investigated information needs and information seeking behaviour of physically challenged people. To investigate the information seeking behaviors of social science graduates. The nature of information seeking behavior in information. Modelling the informationseeking behaviour of international. Information needs, information seeking behaviour, library services, library science introduction the rapid proliferation of information in the present era has significant implications for the education and library usage of university students. South african journal of libraries and information science. Donald case estimates there are more than 10,000 publications in these and other disciplines related to the basic human quest for knowledge. However, there are conflicting views regarding the information needs and information seeking behaviour of users of information services. The analysis suggests that the information needs of rural communities from all countries are very similar, although rural communities they do vary from region to region and from country to country depending on.
Information needs and seeking behaviour play significant role in the utilisation of information resources by secondary school students with special needs in ibadan metroplolis, their information resources needs in nature differ from that of their counterparts without special needs due to their peculiar health challenges which are visual, speech, hearing, locomotive and intellectual impairments. Information needs and seeking behaviour of voters during. The study focused very specifically on both information needs and seeking behaviour of physically challenged at. Information behavior is a field of information science research that seeks to understand the way people search for and use information in various contexts. Five point likert scale was used to measure how far students were using.
It can include information seeking and information retrieval, but it also aims to understand why people seek information and how they use it. A questionnaire was designed based on the previous literature to study students information seeking behaviour at university of dubai library. In order to develop a more detailed patrons profile, a further study of the social and organizational environment of the user community is recommended as these factors help shape the information needs and information seeking behaviour of patrons. Informationseeking behavior an overview sciencedirect topics.
Information needs and information seeking behavior of. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The link between good practice and the avoidance of plagiarism kirsty williamson is director, information and telecommunications needs research, caulfield school of information technology, monash university, and school of information studies, charles sturt university. The instrument used for the study was the student questionnaire.
Information seeking behaviour is the human activities with respect to searching various sources, channels including use of that information. Information needs and informationseeking behaviour of. A conception of informationseeking as a process in which information needs are pursued, or in which problemsolving takes place. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of grade. Researchers and information specialists at the faculty of veterinary science, university of pretoria, were used as a case study. Research on information seeking behavior of the visually challenged students was carried out in university of ghana, legon and university of education, winneba to investigate whether the services provided by those universities accommodated the information seeking behavior of visually challenged students or not. Seeking information from the internet often starts from a search engine, using either its organized directory structure or its text query facility. Information seeking behavior according to wilson 1999, 2000, information seeking behavior includes those activities a person may engage in when identifying their own needs for information, searching for such information in any way, and using or transferring that information. Explaining health managers information seeking behaviour and use.
Pdf information needs and informationseeking behavior. Informationseeking behaviour is also described as a way of gathering information for use, knowledge updating and development 7. Information need is an awareness of an information gap. Ambedkar law university faculty members, information sources preferred by them, methods. In the last few decades, researchers in developed countries have conducted studies in different disciplines to identify the needs and informationseeking behaviour of. An investigation of the information needs and information.
One thousand, one hundred and fifty two usable responses from each of the two institutions. Information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students. Interviews were transcribed into text files with all identifiable information removed then analyzed according to the methods of content analysis 15. Anne chernaik, in meeting health information needs outside of healthcare, 2015. Hence this study undertaken in four villages in odisha is an attempt in this direction which is designed to reflect the current knowledge of the farmers on agriculture, their information needs, seeking behavior, communication channels, the priority of information, and ways and means of better information related situation, etc. A study of the information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students of makerere university, uganda.
To bridge these research gaps, the present study was conducted. Identifying the information needs of public library and. Questionnaires were distributed to the students and data were collected over a period of 60 days between november and. Undergraduates use of social media as information sources. International research journal of arts and social sciences, 14. Information needs and information seeking behaviors of. It is intended as practical resource for assisting the humanitarian response and, ultimately, the affected communities. Information needs and seeking behaviour among health.
Joinson and banyard 2002 made two studies on information seeking behaviour on the internet. Information seeking behaviour is when an individual uses information systems to search for information in order to satisfy the information gap. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of. Questionnaires were distributed to the students and data. Information seeking behaviour introduction for thousands of years people have been seeking, making sense of, and using information in order to manage their work, solve their problems, or simply survive. Informationseeking behaviour is a broad term that comprises information needs, use of information sources, information retrieval and use of information 8. A case study article pdf available january 2014 with 4,873 reads how we measure reads. Only a few studies were found that focused on the informationseeking behavior of basic science researchers 2931. This study involved a qualitative investigation of consulting engineers information needs and information seeking behaviour within the context of their projectrelated work roles and tasks. Informationseeking behavior differs among user groups. Academic libraries, where learning resources are acquired, processed and made accessible to the.
Information needs and seeking behaviour of law lecturers in kwame nkrumah university of science and technology, kumasi, ghana. There is also need to repackage information into local languages and. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Information seeking behaviour of visually challenged students. This study investigated the information needs and seeking behaviour of pastors in namibia. The terms, information seeking behaviour, information searching behaviour and information using behaviour are synonymous terms. The term information behaviour was coined by thomas d. Patrons responses show that intermediary service providers can add value to the information service. The attempt of the user in obtaining the needed information is described as the information seeking behavior. Based on the level of performance, the satisfaction level of the acquired information is determined. Pdf information needs and information seeking behaviour. Informationseeking behaviour of undergraduate students. Information is important in every aspect of a humans life.
Information seeking behaviours of users in information age. This study is an investigation of information needs and information seeking behaviour of rural farmers in okpokwu local government area of benue state. Informationseeking behavior of basic science researchers. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of the. Information seeking behaviour international research. The nature of information need differ from one person to another. Informationseeking behavior an overview sciencedirect.
Taylor 1968 defines informationseeking behaviour as information someone is searching for that helps fill out his picture of the world. In the last few decades, researchers in developed countries have conducted studies in different disciplines to identify the needs and information seeking behaviour of. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of information studies in the. The study focused very specifically on both information needs and seeking behaviour of physically.
Most of the previous studies have only focused on source preference by voters. The information needs and information seeking behaviour of community library users in msunduzi branch libraries, pietermaritzburg. A survey was taken among information seeking behaviour of womens. For the concept of information seeking behaviour to be properly appreciated, it is useful to introduce the concept of information seeking which, basically, is the consequence of a felt information need by a user who may then make demands upon formal and informal information sources or services to satisfy the need. Studies in informationseeking behaviour stem from concerns surrounding how people use information in their work environments. Information seeking behaviour arises as a consequence of a need perceived by the information user, who in order to satisfy it, makes demands upon formal or informal information sources or services, resulting in either. Download citation information needs and information seeking behaviour of the physically challenged.
One thousand, one hundred and fifty two usable responses from each of the two institutions compared in the study were. Information users and usability in the information age. They need to jointly run workshops to make pastors aware of available sources of information, to encourage the sharing of information among pastors, and to equip pastors with computer and internet skills. Academic libraries must understand the information needs of faculty and students in order to address those needs. Library use and informationseeking behaviour of academics. Factors that influence informationseeking behavior. The purpose of this study is to investigate the information seeking behaviour of the undergraduate students at dhaka university, bangladesh. Information need and information seeking behaviour of.
Qualitative research will help to identify factors that generate affective and cognitive needs and will result to the development of an informationseeking behavior model. The purpose of this study is to identify the information channels used by the tamil nadu dr. According to iwe 2003, the rural area, in nigerian context, is any area that is far from the urban city, a village, a hinterland with no good access roads, no pipeborne water, no electricity. Some defined the term based on the general model of information behaviour developed by wilson 1997a. The purpose of the study was to establish the information required by pastors to carry out their work, how they seek information and the problems they encounter in doing so. Information seeking process in order to satisfy the information needs, the user actively undergoes the information seeking process.
Information seeking behaviour is mainly concerned with who needs what kind of information and for what reasons, how information is found, evaluated and used, and how their needs can be identified and satisfied. Information needs and seeking behaviour of business. The analysis suggests that the information needs of rural communities from all countries are very similar, although rural communities they do vary from region to region and from country to country. The concepts defining information, information needs, information seeking and information use have undergone significant evolution since they were first introduced. Understanding the information needs and information seeking behaviour of workers in an organization is the basis for designing and developing information systems and services to adequately satisfy their needs. A mixedmethod approach research was used to meet the objectives of the study. In addition to this, the present study also investigated specific electionrelated information needs and the sources used by voters to satisfy these information needs.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the informationseeking behaviour of the undergraduate students at dhaka university, bangladesh. The focus of this research is to better understand teachers information needs, perceived competencies, preferences for information sources, and information seeking behaviours related to special education by level of teaching experience. A number of information seeking and retrieval studies seem to focus on these concepts, albeit in different ways. A conceptual framework article pdf available in south african journal of libraries and information science 723 january 2006 with 21,294 reads. The attempt of the user in obtaining the needed information has been resulted from the recognition of some need, perceived by the user. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of college library users of cachar district, assam. To determine if there is a correlation exists between information needs of graduates verses information seeking of graduates. Dec 27, 20 age, sex, income, computer literacy and access, patient size, work experience and working site were significantly associated with information needs and seeking behaviour. The health information seeking behaviour of health professional was significant. This study explores the information seeking behavior of undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in undergraduate, postgraduate teaching staff and research scholars.
The purpose of this paper is to determine the information needs and informationseeking behavior of college faculty i. Social scientists constitute one of the basic components of the information users community. Information is an important tool used in the realization. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of students utilizing electronic resources at the library of uitm section 17. Information needs, information seeking behaviour and. The information needs and information seeking behaviour. This study explores the informationseeking behavior of undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in undergraduate, postgraduate teaching staff and research scholars. Information seeking behavior differs among user groups.
Information needs and information seeking behaviour. The heaklth facilities had neither informationcenter such as library, nor internet facilities. The behaviour in the process of seeking information has also been changed with the change in the nature and characteristics of information and its formats. The previous studies generalised the resources from which the academicians can seek the information, irrespective of gender and quali. The study provides a snapshot of current trends in terms of the use of social media as information sources. The present paper discusses the information needs and information seeking behavior in the context of academicians, who are served by academic libraries. What are pregnant womens information needs and information. The information needs and information seeking behaviour of.
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