Information seeking behaviour

Osiobe, Stephen A.

doi:10.1016/0020-7837(88)90006-4

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“…It was also found that undergraduates spent more hours per week in the library than graduate students. Osiobe (1988) surveyed a random sample of 850 students at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria to study their information seeking behaviour. The study established that the first five sources of references to literature for the undergraduates were: browsing (23.9 percent), lecturers (17.53 percent), library card catalogue (17.53 percent), librarians (13.15 percent), references in articles and books (12.35 percent), and abstracts and indexes (7.97 percent).…”

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Usage of information resources by computer engineering students: a case study of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Majid

Tan

2002

Online Information Review

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This study investigates the information needs and information seeking behaviour of computer engineering undergraduate students at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. The purpose was to investigate the types of information sources used by the students, their preferred information formats, the importance of and reasons for using certain information sources and the use of various electronic information sources. A questionnaire was distributed to 200 randomly selected students and 102 completed questionnaires were returned. The study found that printed materials were the most preferred information format among the students. The top five most preferred information sources, in the order of importance, were books, lecturers, the Internet, friends and manuals. Unexpectedly, the use of databases and electronic journals was quite low among the computer engineering students. The study recommends a promotional campaign for introducing electronic information sources to the library users.

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Usage of information resources by computer engineering students: a case study of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Majid

Tan

2002

Online Information Review

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“…In like manner, Osiobe (1998) stated that browsing through Journals was the most important source of finding references for undergraduates students. He concluded that respondents in the University of Botswana did seek help from university library staff with 40 percent receiving help from the reference librarian and approximately 32 percent from the subject librarian.…”

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Information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students in the humanities in three universities in Nigeria

Baro

Onyenania

Osaheni

2010

South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science

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“…13 Osibe highlighted some of the functions of library catalogues which include providing a comprehensive record of materials in the library, a list of a library possession's by certain author, on a given subject, with a certain title, and with multiple access points. 14 Attama and Ezema described card catalogues as a list of holdings of a library printed, typed, or hand written on catalogue cards, in which each representing a single bibliographic items in the collection. 15 These cards are normally filed in a single alphabetical sequence or in separate sections by author, title, and subject in long narrow drawers.…”

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A Survey of Catalogue Use by Engineering Students in Nigerian Universities

Owolabi

Salaam

2011

Cataloging & Classification Quarterly

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This article is a survey of catalogue use by engineering students in Nigerian universities libraries. Simple random sampling technique was used to select one thousand three hundred and sixty-eight engineering students from three universities in the country. A questionnaire was used as the main instrument for data gathering. Some of the findings revealed that a majority of the student survey participants make use of the catalogue occasionally and prefer to browse through the shelves when searching for information in the libraries. This article recommends that library use instruction should be included in the university curriculum and that librarians should provide practical demonstrations on the use of various catalogues to students during orientation programs.

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Information seeking behaviour

Cited by 27 publications

References 6 publications

Usage of information resources by computer engineering students: a case study of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Usage of information resources by computer engineering students: a case study of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Information seeking behaviour of undergraduate students in the humanities in three universities in Nigeria

A Survey of Catalogue Use by Engineering Students in Nigerian Universities

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