Information seeking behaviour of library users at Metropolitan College of New York

Mavodza, Judith

doi:10.1108/00907321111186668

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“…Therefore the library must be capable of managing the researchers' complete knowledge requirements and demands (Pareek & Rana, 2013). Many studies in information science concerning the information behavior of university students have identified the use of library services by students and issues with the use of those services (Mavodza, 2011). The studies indicate that students barely buy books, have difficulty using libraries and use the nearest public library and that library seminars have little effect (Wilson, 2000).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information seeking behavior among public library users: Understanding nature of information searching

2021

j. adv. res. s. sci. hum.

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Aim: The behavior of information seeking is the product of the need perceived by the information user, who makes demands for either formal or non-formal information sources or services, leading to attainment or failure. People look for information and use it to fulfill their assigned task while they engage in information finding activity. As an information providing agency, the mandate of the public library is to meet the needs of the public for information. The primary goal of the public library is therefore to provide information and services in a variety of media to meet the needs of individuals and groups. The Public Library is an organization that, through some other form of communal organization, has established, promoted and funded by society, either local, regional or national, or national government. Methodology: The study is designed to understand the behavior of users of public libraries in Kalutara, Horana, Sri Lanka and research samples comprising users of the one main library and three branch libraries. In this study, the survey method was used to select the participants, and the non-probability sampling method of the convenience sampling method was used. The response rate was 87 percent (n = 348). Findings: It is revealed, based on the current study findings that many public library users belong to communities of young age and students by occupation. Also, results indicate that most of the students were regularly visited by the public library in the metropolitan area of Horana. Their information-search activity therefore is primarily restricted to the curriculum and instructional purposes of the school. Therefore, library programs can be developed on the basis of youth categories. Implications/Novel Contribution: Present study has shown that inadequate material at the library is adversely affected by the way information is found and the use of the public library is obstructed. The current study found that the public library administrations would establish mechanisms for upgrading reading services, updating books, increasing existing capacity, attracting new service members, and offering e-learning resources to improve users' ability to access information more efficiently. In order to establish a positive approach to consumers, staff should be well trained. The results of this research would provide a thorough understanding of the essence of public library users' information searching activity. This would help scholars in identifying methodological gaps that they will follow up on in future studies.

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confidence: 99%

Information seeking behavior among public library users: Understanding nature of information searching

2021

j. adv. res. s. sci. hum.

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“…Insufficient research conducted in the area of information behaviour in libraries, information centres, overemphasis on planned behaviours (Gowda and Shivalingaiah 2010;Mavodza 2011;Kumar and Tholkappian 2013;Haque, Rahman, and Ajimuddin 2016;Khan, Ahmad, and Khan 2017;Superio et al 2018;Thindwa, Chawinga, and Dube 2019) and only a study carried out in the area of clients' impulsive behaviour (Harati et al 2019) justify the conduct of research on library clients' emotional and cognitive aspects, clients' immediate decision-making driven by excitement and motivation, and the influence of incentives on clients' behaviour.…”

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Assessing the factors influencing clients’ impulsive information seeking behaviour in using information resources and services of the academic library

Kakhki¹,

Harati²,

Doreh³

2019

MJLIS

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The purpose of the present study was to identify and examine the factors that influence the library clients' impulsive behaviour in using resources and services in an academic library. A survey research on the students population of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad in Iran was designed. A researcherdeveloped questionnaire was used for data collection. After determining the validity and reliability of the research instrument, the questionnaire was distributed to 380 students based on a stratified random sampling procedure. Structural Equation Analysis, Path Analysis and the Linear Structural Relation (LISREL) software were used for data analysis. The results showed that (a) the time available to the students, and their interest in books and libraries, bring about surfing enjoyment and make the library a more enjoyable place for them; (b) individual features influence the students' tendency towards impulsive use; (c) environmental features of the library directly affect students' positive emotions and impulsive using behaviour, and indirectly affect it through their positive emotion; and (d) Surfing enjoyment had a direct effect on the students' positive emotion and their tendency towards the impulsive use of the library resources and services. The direct relationship between the students' positive emotion and their tendency towards impulsive use was not confirmed. However, the results of the path analysis showed a direct and significant effect of the positive emotion on the impulsive use of the library resources and services in the selected population.

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“…One successful way to influence students to seek the advice of an information professional is for faculty to advocate the value of consulting university librarians. 15 A review of the literature finds a dearth of analysis on the data research methods of undergraduate students, much less researchers as a whole. But all data researchers, whether undergraduate or skilled professional, face similar data discovery problems.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data Seeking Behavior of Economics Undergraduate Students: An Exploratory Study

Garrison¹,

Exner²

2019

RUSQ

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This article investigates the information seeking behavior of undergraduate economics students to determine their effectiveness in locating data sets for a multiple regression analysis assignment and seeks to discover how students pursue the process of learning to find and use data. A study was conducted in fall and spring 2015 to find out (1) what influences affect students’ ways of seeking data sets; and (2) what changes occur over the course of students’ data search. The findings say that while only about 10% of students started with the library, either a library database or a librarian, nearly half eventually used the library in some form for this course project. The conclusion reached as a result of the survey was that undergraduates have widely varying data search concepts, that more of the students look for personal interest data than business discipline data, and that the searching part of economics students’ first regression project can add a noticeable amount of time to the assignment before they can even get started working on the regression itself. Included are ideas for further research and ways to reach students before data searching gets frustrating, as well as thoughts on how to structure data search learning and how to use insights into student behaviors to overcome the reluctance of some faculty.

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Information seeking behaviour of library users at Metropolitan College of New York

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Information seeking behavior among public library users: Understanding nature of information searching

Information seeking behavior among public library users: Understanding nature of information searching

Assessing the factors influencing clients’ impulsive information seeking behaviour in using information resources and services of the academic library

Data Seeking Behavior of Economics Undergraduate Students: An Exploratory Study

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