If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. 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. Patrons responses show that intermediary service providers can add value to the information service. Pdf information needs and information seeking behaviour. A mixedmethod approach research was used to meet the objectives of the study. 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 assessment explores information needs and communications channels, as well as trust networks and issues of language and literacy. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of grade. 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. The previous studies generalised the resources from which the academicians can seek the information, irrespective of gender and quali. Informationseeking behavior an overview sciencedirect. This study explores the information seeking behavior of undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in undergraduate, postgraduate teaching staff and research scholars.
This study is an investigation of information needs and information seeking behaviour of rural farmers in okpokwu local government area of benue state. Information users and usability in the information age. Information needs and seeking behaviour among health. Information seeking behaviour international research. It is intended as practical resource for assisting the humanitarian response and, ultimately, the affected communities.
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. The purpose of this study is to identify the information channels used by the tamil nadu dr. The rapid growth of information made available to man during the last decades has further emphasised our dependence on information. Academic libraries, where learning resources are acquired, processed and made accessible to the. A case study article pdf available january 2014 with 4,873 reads how we measure reads. This study was undertaken to discover the informationseeking behaviour of academics and their use of the library at lincoln university of new zealand.
An investigation of the information needs and information. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of information studies in the. Only a few studies were found that focused on the informationseeking behavior of basic science researchers 2931. This study investigated the information needs and seeking behaviour of pastors in namibia. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of college library users of cachar district, assam. Taylor 1968 defines informationseeking behaviour as information someone is searching for that helps fill out his picture of the world. Questionnaires were distributed to the students and data were collected over a period of 60 days between november and. The instrument used for the study was the student questionnaire.
In the last few decades, researchers in developed countries have conducted studies in different disciplines to identify the needs and information seeking behaviour of. Reviews research studies on the information needs and informationseeking behaviour of rural dwellers in developed and developing countries. 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. Information behaviour various definitions of information behaviour have been given by researchers. Social scientists constitute one of the basic components of the information users community. Information needs and seeking behaviour of law lecturers in kwame nkrumah university of science and technology, kumasi, ghana. Information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students. The nature of information seeking behavior in information. Information seeking behaviour is the human activities with respect to searching various sources, channels including use of that information. Apr 21, 2015 information seeking behaviour studies have helped information professionals, doctors and social workers address medical patients information needs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the information seeking behaviour of the undergraduate students at dhaka university, bangladesh. The health information seeking behaviour of health professional was significant.
The information needs and information seeking behaviour of community library users in msunduzi branch libraries, pietermaritzburg. To investigate the information seeking behaviors of social science graduates. Information need and information seeking behaviour of. International research journal of arts and social sciences, 14. The term information behaviour was coined by thomas d. To bridge these research gaps, the present study was conducted.
Information needs and information seeking behaviors of. Informationseeking behavior of basic science researchers. Donald case estimates there are more than 10,000 publications in these and other disciplines related to the basic human quest for knowledge. 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. The heaklth facilities had neither informationcenter such as library, nor internet facilities. One thousand, one hundred and fifty two usable responses from each of the two institutions. Information needs and seeking behaviour of voters during.
Informationseeking behaviour of undergraduate students. Purpose the paper reports a study which investigated information needs and information seeking behaviour of physically challenged people. The purpose of this study is to investigate the informationseeking behaviour of the undergraduate students at dhaka university, bangladesh. In the last few decades, researchers in developed countries have conducted studies in different disciplines to identify the needs and informationseeking behaviour of. Information seeking process in order to satisfy the information needs, the user actively undergoes the information seeking process. 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. 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. It can include information seeking and information retrieval, but it also aims to understand why people seek information and how they use it. Explaining health managers information seeking behaviour and use.
A survey was taken among information seeking behaviour of womens. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. 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. Five point likert scale was used to measure how far students were using. Download citation information needs and information seeking behaviour of the physically challenged. Reviews research studies on the information needs and information seeking behaviour of rural dwellers in developed and developing countries. 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. Ambedkar law university faculty members, information sources preferred by them, methods. Most of the previous studies have only focused on source preference by voters.
The purpose of this paper is to determine the information needs and information seeking behavior of college faculty i. 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. Information seeking behavior differs among user groups. 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. The information needs and information seeking behaviour. Joinson and banyard 2002 made two studies on information seeking behaviour on the internet. Information needs and seeking behaviour of business students. Undergraduates use of social media as information sources. Information needs and information seeking behaviour. The attempt of the user in obtaining the needed information is described as the information seeking behavior. To determine if there is a correlation exists between information needs of graduates verses information seeking of graduates. 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. Information need is an awareness of an information gap.
Understanding teachers information needs, perceived. Information needs and informationseeking behaviour of. One thousand, one hundred and fifty two usable responses from each of the two institutions compared in the study were. Modelling the informationseeking behaviour of international. 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 purpose of this paper is to determine the information needs and informationseeking behavior of college faculty i. A conception of informationseeking as a process in which information needs are pursued, or in which problemsolving takes place. Questionnaires were distributed to the students and data. Information needs, information seeking behaviour and. The study aimed at investigating the information needs and information seeking behaviour of the rural farmers. The aim of this study was to determine what the information needs, information seeking behaviour and information use behaviour of veterinary researchers are, and how these needs are being met by the library. However, there are conflicting views regarding the information needs and information seeking behaviour of users of information services. Identifying the information needs of public library and.
Information is important in every aspect of a humans life. The information needs and informationseeking behaviour of. Information seeking behaviours of users in information age. A conceptual framework article pdf available in south african journal of libraries and information science 723 january 2006 with 21,294 reads. The present paper discusses the information needs and information seeking behavior in the context of academicians, who are served by academic libraries. Information needs and seeking behaviour is for all categories of people be they urban or rural. Interviews were transcribed into text files with all identifiable information removed then analyzed according to the methods of content analysis 15. Informationseeking behavior an overview sciencedirect topics. The study provides a snapshot of current trends in terms of the use of social media as information sources. 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.
The nature of information need differ from one person to another. 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. 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. 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. 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 attempt of the user in obtaining the needed information has been resulted from the recognition of some need, perceived by the user. Information seeking behaviour is when an individual uses information systems to search for information in order to satisfy the information gap.
Information needs and seeking behaviour of business. Informationseeking behaviour is also described as a way of gathering information for use, knowledge updating and development 7. Information needs and information seeking behavior of. The study focused very specifically on both information needs and seeking behaviour of physically. This study explores the informationseeking behavior of undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in undergraduate, postgraduate teaching staff and research scholars. 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. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of. Information seeking behaviour of visually challenged students. Library use and informationseeking behaviour of academics. A number of information seeking and retrieval studies seem to focus on these concepts, albeit in different ways. What are pregnant womens information needs and information.
Further research is also needed to examine the applicability of these findings to other contexts. There is also need to repackage information into local languages and. Pdf information needs and informationseeking behavior. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of the. Seeking information from the internet often starts from a search engine, using either its organized directory structure or its text query facility. Studies in informationseeking behaviour stem from concerns surrounding how people use information in their work environments. Informationseeking behaviour is a broad term that comprises information needs, use of information sources, information retrieval and use of information 8. Based on the level of performance, the satisfaction level of the acquired information is determined. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of students utilizing electronic resources at the library of uitm section 17. A questionnaire was designed based on the previous literature to study students information seeking behaviour at university of dubai library. When attitudes and actions are collaborated the performance emerges. Most notably, public libraries have served as centers for health collections directed. The terms, information seeking behaviour, information searching behaviour and information using behaviour are synonymous terms.
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 study of the information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students of makerere university, uganda. The information needs and information seeking behaviour of. Informationseeking behavior differs among user groups. 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 involved a qualitative investigation of consulting engineers information needs and informationseeking behaviour within the context of their projectrelated work roles and tasks. 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. Academic libraries must understand the information needs of faculty and students in order to address those needs. Researchers and information specialists at the faculty of veterinary science, university of pretoria, were used as a case study. 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.