Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Legal Practitioners and the Challenges to Law Libraries in Lagos, Nigeria

Haruna, Ibrahim; Mabawonku, Iyabo

doi:10.1006/iilr.2000.0160

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“…• Finally, the results of this study support Zipf (1949);Meyer (2009), and Haruna and Mabawonku (2001);and Cole and Kuhlthau (2000) …”

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Law Student Information Seeking, and Understanding of Citation, Common Knowledge, and Plagiarism

Helge¹

2017

Knowledge Discovery and Data Design Innovation

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“…• Finally, the results of this study support Zipf (1949);Meyer (2009), and Haruna and Mabawonku (2001);and Cole and Kuhlthau (2000) …”

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confidence: 83%

“…• Meyer (2009);and Haruna and Mabawonku (2001) postulated covert factors shaped attorneys and law students' actions and source selection. Thus, attorneys' job roles and tasks remained static and could not be changed by other factors such as client demands, customer service, and fears of liability.…”

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Law Student Information Seeking, and Understanding of Citation, Common Knowledge, and Plagiarism

Helge¹

2017

Knowledge Discovery and Data Design Innovation

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“…In Nigeria, Haruna and Mabawonku (2001) investigated the information needs and seeking behaviour of lawyers in Nigeria. The authors discovered that the library is the most heavily used source identified by the lawyers.…”

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Information Sources Used by Nigerian Lawyers for Task-Related Activities

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Mansor

2014

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Studies on information seeking behaviour have shown that workers, especially professionals look for information in order to perform their work related activities. Because the legal profession is an information-intensive one, understanding the sources consulted by lawyers for their task performance is important for librarians as service providers in order to ensure effective and efficient service delivery. This study seeks to understand the sources that are consulted by lawyers for specific job-related tasks they perform. Data was gathered using questionnaires from a total of 64 lawyers in Kwara State, Nigeria. Findings show that the sources consulted by lawyers are related to the kind of tasks they perform. While human sources are mostly consulted for the performance of tasks involving interpersonal communications such as negotiations and settling disputes out of court, the advocacy task requires that they consult authorised sources such as legal publications and literatures. However, a generally low use of electronic sources (such as e-databases and e-journals) was observed among lawyers.

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“…Needs are matters of priority, what we need is an overriding reason. Haruna and Mabawonku (2001) suggested that needs arise when the state of possessed knowledge is less than what is needed to deal with some issues and that information needs are diverse, constantly changing and not amendable to generalization. Students are always determined to seek information to enhance their research.…”

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Information needs, library resources and services available to post graduate students in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

Iwara¹

2015

Int. J. Lib. Inf. Sci.

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One hundred and fifty-five copies of questionnaire were administered to postgraduate students in Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS), African Studies (AFS) and Peace Building (BD) units. The study identified Kenneth Dike, WORDOC and IFRA as libraries normally used by postgraduate students of the Institute of African Studies. The study shows that the library resources/materials in the Institute of African Studies library were readily available and accessible; and that 79.4% of postgraduate students were satisfied with the available library materials. Theses and dissertation and journal articles were the most frequently referenced library materials. The study further revealed that journal articles and textbooks/monographs were the main library materials required by research students. Result of One-Way Analysis of Variance indicated that the postgraduate level of satisfaction with library materials do not vary significantly (F = 0.895, p>0.05). The study recommended that the Institute of African Studies library should be updated in terms of acquiring current books, journals and audiovisual materials to make it the most referenced library in order to meet the needs of Institute of African Studies researchers.

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Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Legal Practitioners and the Challenges to Law Libraries in Lagos, Nigeria

Cited by 14 publications

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Law Student Information Seeking, and Understanding of Citation, Common Knowledge, and Plagiarism

Law Student Information Seeking, and Understanding of Citation, Common Knowledge, and Plagiarism

Information Sources Used by Nigerian Lawyers for Task-Related Activities

Information needs, library resources and services available to post graduate students in the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

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