Demographics and perceived computer skill levels as predictors of faculty awareness and use of electronic information resources

Habiba, Umme; Ahmed, S.M. Zabed

doi:10.1108/dlp-04-2020-0019

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“…Among them, 683 (69.2%) were from public universities and 304 (30.8%) from private universities. Although the number of public and private universities has been increasing recently in Bangladesh, the quality level of academic activities, learning, and other facilities, such as laboratories, internet facilities, library facilities and so forth, in most of these universities is not considered adequate (Habiba and Ahmed, 2020). The research found that most of the respondents (757, 76.7%) were male, while 230 (23.3%) were female faculty members.…”

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Assessing the quality and credibility of scholarly information resources: an investigation into information behaviours of university faculty members

Habiba

Islam

2022

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Purpose This paper aims at assessing faculty members' information searching patterns and the process of determining their information sources' quality and credibility. Design/methodology/approach This study administered an online survey through email invitation to secure data from 987 (55%) faculty members of both public and private universities of Bangladesh. The data were analysed using various descriptive statistics, and parametric and non-parametric tests such as Mann–Whitney, Kruskal–Wallis, and one-way ANOVA tests, to see the significant differences according to demographic characteristics at a 0.05 level of significance. Findings This study's outcomes affirm that most participants use Google Scholar and ResearchGate when searching/seeking information. Furthermore, for authenticating the credibility and quality of information, most faculty members tried to identify the information source and applied personal knowledge regarding information authentication. The statistical test results also found significant differences among faculty members' demographic characteristics (gender, age, experience and area of specialization) using the various source types. No significant differences were observed for determining information credibility in terms of faculty members’ demographic characteristics. Research limitations/implications As a limitation, this study only includes public and private universities in Bangladesh. This research could be more comprehensive if faculty members from other countries had participated in the survey. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this study is the first to approach this significant but less addressed area to understand faculty member's behaviour in terms of determining the quality and credibility of information resources in Bangladesh.

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Assessing the quality and credibility of scholarly information resources: an investigation into information behaviours of university faculty members

Habiba

Islam

2022

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“…The superiority of information retrieval through digital technologies depends on the quality of the ICT skills of the user (Habiba & Ahmed, 2020). For the users of the university library to be effective on the utilization of e-resources they must be in a position to locate, access, evaluate, and use library information sources in several formats for academic or other uses such as social and global (Ebijuwa & Mabawonku, 2019).…”

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“…For the users of the university library to be effective on the utilization of e-resources they must be in a position to locate, access, evaluate, and use library information sources in several formats for academic or other uses such as social and global (Ebijuwa & Mabawonku, 2019). Habiba and Ahmed (2020) believe that ICT skills are necessary for managing, assessing, and using electronic resources for research, term papers, decision making, and solving problems. They further indicated that ICT skills incorporate several kinds of operations that students or researchers can access, manipulate, download, receive, disseminate, and send or email data using technology.…”

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User Skills and Utilization of E-Resources by Undergraduate Students at Tangaza University Library, Nairobi County, Kenya

Okirigiti¹

2022

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The rapidly changing world has been influenced by information communication technology that has affected every aspect of education, and the institutions of higher learning mostly in developed countries. The expansion of ICT has offered better opportunities in the learning environments especially for developing countries. Therefore, the study aim was to establish the relationship between undergraduate student’s ICT skills and use of electronic resource at Tangaza University Library, Nairobi County. This research is anchored on the Technological Determinism Theory. The study adopted a descriptive research design and both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study adopted a stratified random sampling in which 168 respondents from a target population of 1680 were selected. Data were collected using questionnaires, observation, and interviews and were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and results presented in tables, and figures. Researcher observed research ethics during the entire research period. The findings showed that user skills had a positive correlation. The study concluded that user skills were significantly related to the utilization of e-resources by the undergraduate student because the P-Value for each variable was < 0.05 which shows that ICT skills are significantly related to the utilization of e-resources by undergraduate students of Tangaza University Library. The study recommends that Tangaza University Library should ensure that orientation programs on usage and access of e-resources and regularly conducted for user access training, usage, and retrieval of resources through ICT. The management board should conduct workshops and seminars on ICT skills and ICT literacy for students and staff to enable the university to develop a culture of ICT usage.

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“…On the other hand, Chen (2019) 7 stated that the respondent's mostly used resources were printed books, and they utilised and continued this during the procedure of concept development. Another recent paper by Habiba and Ahmed (2020) 10 found that faculty members were mostly involved with the following e-resources, e.g., e-theses, online magazines, electronic newspapers, and online indexing databases, full-text and reference databases for their academic and research purposes. In their article, Arshad and Ameen (2019) 1 claimed that the respondents' favoured information sources were electronic journals, e-books, and they also consulted with their co-workers.…”

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Information Behavior of Faculty Members of NSTU, Public University of Bangladesh

Habiba

Yesmin

Akhter³

2021

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

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The study’s main purpose was to investigate faculty members’ information searching behaviors while administering any research. This study designed an online questionnaire and printed questionnaires used for data collection. The data were analysed using several descriptive statistics, such as frequencies, percentages, and non-parametric tests, i.e., Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis. The findings showed that faculty members were heavily dependent on search engines to access information, and they have mainly used academic social media sites such as Google Scholar (n=139) and ResearchGate (n=133). Additionally, to keep up-to-date with new publications, they primarily relied on journal alerts (n=126). In the case of applying searching strategies, they used more than one keyword search and sometimes one keyword. Conversely, they do not apply proximity operators, discovery and federated tools and Boolean operators in their search techniques. Furthermore, for modifying search techniques, they used several keywords searching and utilise search engines, databases, and advanced search techniques. Moreover, the Mann-Whitney test result found no significant differences in terms of their gender regarding the types of e-resources used by them, and the Kruskal-Wallis tests found substantial differences in terms of faculty demographic characteristics of using only indexed databases, search engines, academic, social media sites (e.g., ResearchGate, and Zotero Network), current awareness services (i.e., Journal alerts, Web alerts, and discussion lists), and search techniques (i.e., Boolean operators, and Truncation).

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Demographics and perceived computer skill levels as predictors of faculty awareness and use of electronic information resources

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Assessing the quality and credibility of scholarly information resources: an investigation into information behaviours of university faculty members

Assessing the quality and credibility of scholarly information resources: an investigation into information behaviours of university faculty members

User Skills and Utilization of E-Resources by Undergraduate Students at Tangaza University Library, Nairobi County, Kenya

Information Behavior of Faculty Members of NSTU, Public University of Bangladesh

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