Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Foreign Students in University of Delhi: A Survey

Singh, K. P.; Kumar, M. Sunil; Khanchandani, Vanita

doi:10.5865/ijkct.2015.5.2.025

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“…To meet these information needs, the information seeker’s searching is continuously driven by many reasons and in many contexts. The invention of the Internet and other technologies has made faster the entire process of information seeking (Singh et al, 2015). It is quite obvious that information-seeking behaviour differs from person to person because of the variation of needs and context of the search.…”

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“…textbook, lecturer, handouts and other resources). In an academic setting, information-seeking behaviour of undergraduates revolves around seeking, evaluating, selecting and finally using information mostly for their academic and learning purposes (Singh et al, 2015). Considering their age, gender, disciplines, semesters and other contexts, the need and the information-seeking behaviour of students may differ.…”

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Information-seeking behaviour of undergraduate students: A developing country perspective

Howlader

Islam

2019

IFLA Journal

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the information-seeking behaviour of the undergraduate students at Dhaka University, Bangladesh. Questionnaires were distributed to the students and data were collected over a period of 60 days between November and December 2017. Of the 450 questionnaires distributed, 339 were returned where the response rate was 75.33%. It was found that most undergraduates needed academic and job-related information. To meet those needs, they often went to the library to study and to prepare for competitive job exams. For doing academic work, they were heavily dependent on the class lectures and they were only slightly satisfied with the library services they get. This study brought out the findings that undergraduates’ information skills were poor and they were not aware of the library resources. The outcome of this research would help to develop information resources and services for the undergraduates in developing countries.

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Section: Background Of the Studymentioning

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Information-seeking behaviour of undergraduate students: A developing country perspective

Howlader

Islam

2019

IFLA Journal

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“…Additionally, Howlader and Islam (2019) revealed that undergraduates in Bangladesh used library information resources/services to seek academic information. In an Indian university, academic and learning purposes were also emphasized as information behaviour that undergraduates exhibited as they sought, assessed, selected and used information (Singh et al, 2015).…”

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Demographic Factors and Electronic Resources/Services Use: Evidence from Adeleke University

Makinde

Hamzat

Makinde

2022

Journal of Balkan Libraries Union

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Information behaviour studies indicate that undergraduates tend to use e-resources/services (ERS) as information sources. This study examines the influence of demographic factors on ERS use among undergraduates of Adeleke University in Nigeria. A field survey methodology was used for the study and 352 undergraduates from six academic faculties served as the respondents. Data were collected by the use of a questionnaire. The findings revealed that undergraduates used varying levels of ten categories of ERS predominantly for academic purposes. The results indicated by non-parametric tests demonstrated that the frequency levels of ERS use for academic information by undergraduates had no significant difference with student’s status (finalist and non-finalist) and gender. But, a statistical difference existed between frequency levels of ERS use for academic information, and age group and academic faculty. The study concluded that disciplinary-oriented ERS must be provided for undergraduates to address faculty information needs for disciplinary research.

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“…Both men and women were interested in seeking news related to business, science and politics, but women showed more interest in entertainment news than did men. In addition, Singh et al’s [37] questionnaire-based survey of university students revealed a preference among males for using the library (76.5%) and newspapers (63.8%) as information sources, while females (17.07%) utilised the radio for this purpose more than males did (2.1%). Furthermore, women were found to consult more sources than men did in the course of the health-information search process [10] and were more active overall than males in seeking information pertaining to health and medicine [38].…”

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Music-search behaviour on a social Q&A site: A cross-gender comparison

Deng

Zhao

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Journal of Information Science

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While there have been numerous studies of music-search behaviour, little is known about gendered aspects of how it is carried out on social question and answer sites. The article examines gender differences manifested on one such site with regard to (a) the motivations of the person posing the question, (b) intervening variables that influence music-search behaviour and (c) the formulation of the questions. Results from manual categorisation and other analysis of 17,380 music-relevant questions collected from the site show that males who asked questions did so more often, provided more answers and had more followers than female question-posters. Males tended to include music context information in questions asking for ready reference, whereas females often asked questions in a second-person pronoun aiming for promoting discussion. Such research results add to the current understanding of music-search behaviour and contribute new insights that can inform development of better music services/systems.

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Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Foreign Students in University of Delhi: A Survey

Cited by 7 publications

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Information-seeking behaviour of undergraduate students: A developing country perspective

Information-seeking behaviour of undergraduate students: A developing country perspective

Demographic Factors and Electronic Resources/Services Use: Evidence from Adeleke University

Music-search behaviour on a social Q&A site: A cross-gender comparison

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