Many studies have been conducted on faculty, especially, in electronic environment, and researchers and scientists in academic environment. The students were surveyed by means of a semistructured interview where they were asked what their information needs were, how they met those needs and whether the information they found from the institution. Information seeking process in order to satisfy the information needs, the user actively undergoes the information seeking process. This study investigates the information needs and informationseeking patterns of.
Some findings from this final survey are presented in this paper. This journal is hosted by the su lis on request of the journal ownereditor. Understanding helpseeking amongst university students. A study of the information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students of makerere university, uganda. The rapid growth of information made available to man during the last decades has further emphasised our dependence on information.
Pdf students information behaviour and the role of. Information needs and information seeking behaviors of. Objectives to study the purpose of the students for seeking information behaviour engineering college students in madurai. A comparison between arts and science undergraduate students in iran dr. Powered by ojs and hosted by stellenbosch university library and information service since 2012 disclaimer. Informationseeking behaviour of african students in malaysia. Information seeking behaviour of business school students. As well as the information seeking from electronic resources with internet has given more preference. Chen 1980 remarked that the information seeking pattern of an individual is determined by the. Table 3 indicates that internet or the free resources. Students information behaviour and the role of academic. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of. Discusses the growing diversity of college students. Purpose this study provides evidence on the actual information.
Despite a high prevalence of suicide ideation and mental health issues amongst university students, the stigma of helpseeking remains a barrier to those who are in real need of professional support. An overview of users information seeking behaviour on. Information seeking behaviour which essentially refers to locate discrete knowledge elements. Information seeking means different things in different context that involves the search, retrieval, recognition and application of meaningful content kingrey, 2002. This study explores the informationseeking behavior of undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in undergraduate, postgraduate teaching staff and research scholars. 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. In order to evaluate these systems on how well they support people information seeking, there is a need to understand information seeking behaviour of users on the system ruthven and kelly, 2011. Information seeking behaviour whether or not information needs are pursued depends on the individuals ability to identify their need and then to express the need in terms that are searchable by themselves or a third party.
So, respondents shy away to raise any problem which will reflect igno rance to their society. Student digital informationseeking behaviour in context. Article information, pdf download for informationseeking behaviour of. The study aimed at broadening the appreciating information seeking behaviour of masters students through linking the dynamics of information seeking to emotions and behaviour. Librarians perceptive okonoko vera ncln college of education, agbor p. Social identity theory states that help received from an ingroup source is more welcome and less threatening to ones identity than that from a source perceived as outgroup. The population was made up of 3,684 undergraduate students.
Informationseeking behavior differs among user groups. Graduate students 40% turned to university librarians for the technical aspects of information seeking, most of. Factors that influence informationseeking behavior. An investigation of informationseeking behaviour of. Pdf an overview of users information seeking behaviour. Pdf information seeking behaviour of law students in the. It is concerned with the interactive utilization of the three basic resources namely, people, information and system zayapragassarazan. Information seeking behavior differs among user groups. Analysis shows that students,teachers and scholars have been shown more affection to formal collection in libraries.
Factors impacting information seeking behaviour of. Information needs and information seeking behaviour and. A user survey padma, p1 ramasamy, k 2 and sakthi renugadevi3 1. 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. Information need and information seeking behaviour of. A case of university of dubai ali amour elmaamiry tha. Questionnaires were distributed to the students and data. The information seeking behaviour of students has been the subject of much debate. Pdf student digital informationseeking behaviour in context. The major objective was to compare the information seeking behaviour of first and final students.
Ikojaodongo and mostert 2006 add that information seeking behaviour as a subset of information behaviour involves understanding of how people seek information and use it, what channels they use. All surveys and interviews were conducted in person by the researcher, trained graduate students, or local research assistants or professionals, with the aid of interpreters when necessary. Fortyseven students completed the log and questionnaire. Precisely, the focus was on obtaining information on the nature of academic information needed by the students, the sources consulted and the general pattern of information gathering system by the students. The major purpose of the study was to examine the information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students in the university of botswana. Information seeking behaviour informationseeking behaviour begins when one realizes the existence of an information need and ends when that need is believed to have been satisfied krikelas 1983. Impact of ict has done more for users of engineering.
Library use and informationseeking behaviour of academics at lincoln university by ying amanda he. Information seeking behaviours of users in information age elis. Otike 2002 investigated the information needs and seeking behaviour of lawyers in england in the united kingdom and found out that lawyers information needs are greatly influenced by the nature of the work they do. The informationseeking behavior of youth in the digital environment.
This study examined the informationseeking behaviors of basic science researchers to inform the development of customized library services. There is a need for a study on students information seeking behaviour to understand how. The information seeking behaviour of students has been the subject of much debate in recent years as the mass availability of information on the web has led to widespread concerns about plagiarism bbc news, 2006, the unthinking, unevaluated, overusage of web resources by students graham and metaxas, 2003 and, more generally, as. Each of the 39 usable responses was examined, evaluated. In order to assess the bibliographic search process of students, a questionnaire and log form were given to 55 undergraduate students at bucknell universitys bertrand library. Informationseeking behaviour of undergraduate students. Towards understanding how to assess helpseeking behavior across cultures amy ogan, carnegie mellon university erin walker, arizona state university ryan baker, columbia university ma. A lot of studies have been conducted on the information seeking behaviour of faculty members. Specifically, the study made effort to determine the sources consulted and the general pattern of information gathering system by the students. Existing literature on information seeking behaviour that focused on graduate students of universities, corroborate in various studies show that internet and. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of students utilizing electronic resources at the library of uitm section 17. They also observed that students information seeking behaviour involves purposeful information seeking as a result of the need to complete course assignments, prepare for class discussions, seminars, workshops, and write finalyear research papers.
Pdf informationseeking behaviour of security studies. The seeker turns to formal and informal sources of information and is ultimately satisfied or dissatisfied with the end result wilson 2009. The instrument used for the study was the student questionnaire. One article includes a comparison of the information seeking behavior. The su lis takes no responsibility for the content published within this journal, and disclaim all liability arising out of the use of or inability to use the information contained herein. The information seeking behavior of high school aged young. Fourteen of the articles focus exclusively on high school students. The study investigated the information seeking behaviour of students of babcock university. An overview of users information seeking behaviour on online resources. Relatively little is known about the informationseeking patterns of students using college libraries. The descriptive research approach was used for the study.
M masoomeh seifi maleki islamic azad university, dezfool, iran abstract the demand of responsibilities among teachers has evolved not only in classroom. This study investigated the informationseeking behaviour of african students at the. The informationseeking behavior of high school students. A comparative analysis of the web information seeking. This is followed by selecting the appropriate sources of information and finding the required information by using selected strategies 3, p168. 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. Darko lacovic, students information behaviour and the role of academic library, libellarium, vii, 1 2014. Informationseeking behavior of students, researchers, and professionals has been the focus of enquiry for decades. Informationseeking behavior of basic science researchers. Cheuk 1999, mentions that knowledge about how and why people exhibit different information seeking behavior is very little and it is also mentioned that research studies have not yet fully acknowledged information seeking as a dynamic process. A comparative analysis of the web information seeking behaviour of students and staff at the university of zululand and the durban university of technology by ntando nkomo. Information seeking behaviour isb of tertiary level. One thousand, one hundred and fifty two usable responses from each of the two institutions compared in the study were. Information seeking behaviours of users in information age.
Information seeking behaviour is the technique or the process of searching. Informationseeking behavior and internet use in uzbekistan. The individual arab is, first and foremost, a part of an extended family. In the context of this study, we use information behaviour as it applies to graduate mba students as they seek, search for, and use information to support their scholarly exercise. Factors and challenges affecting the informationseeking behavior of s. The study of information seeking behaviour of users has assumed importance in the recent years either at a particular information gathering habits of specialized group users attached to in institution. Academic libraries must understand the information needs of faculty and students in order to address those needs. Information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students in.
This study investigated how students from diverse ethnic groups discover, select, and use information and the impact their cultural and educational backgrounds have on informationseeking behavior. Information is all around and is utilized in all walks of life right from purchasing a pin to writing a research article by the. Jdoc student digital informationseeking behaviour in context. The study examined the information seeking behavior of post graduate students in the sri padmavathi mahila visvavidyalayam, tirupati ap. The paper presents the various attitudes and behaviour in seeking information from engineering college libraries by users. It is a vital source for human beings for living a prosperous life on the earth. Library use and informationseeking behaviour of academics. Scholars, students and faculties actively seek current information from the various media available in libraries, for example encyclopedias, journals and more currently, electronic media. Comparative analysis of information seeking behaviour. Information needs and information seeking behaviour of post graduate students of school of economics at madurai kamaraj university. The theory of radical change, which is based on the digital age principles of interactivity, connectivity, and access, is suggested as a lens to reexamine existing research on youth informationseeking behavior in the digital. Acheampong ld and dzandu m 2015 information seeking behavior of. To understand the information seeking behaviour of law students the concerned.
One article includes a comparison of the informationseeking behavior. Pdf the information seeking behaviour, is considered as a human behaviour to search for information in purposeful way to find. This study explores the information seeking behavior of undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers in undergraduate, postgraduate teaching staff and research scholars. The importance of information seeking behaviour of international students international students may face more problems in comparison with local students in navigating their academic and everyday life dalglish and chan, 2005, deumert, marginson, nyland, ramia and sawir, 2005. Informationseeking behavior of multicultural students. A qualitative study using semistructured interviews was conducted on a sample of basic science researchers employed.
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