Information Needs and Seeking Behaviour of Senior NonAcademic Staff In Nigerian Universities

Information culture of university administration: Making personnel bureaucracy a professional bureaucracy

“…Going further, with a well-organized information resource in an external public environment, it is sometimes convenient for employees with expert knowledge to rely on external sources of information in the process of communicating with the environment. This gives them the independence to create openly accessible presentations and search for statistics, obtain information about the organization of didactics, or use public resources to create relations with the social and economic environment of the university, for example, to improve communication with service providers (Madukoma and Opeke, 2013). Such activities in the external information orientation of Innovation Village and Supremacy in Polish universities are significantly more common in large institutions with clear separation of central administration from the departments (Table 5).…”

Information seeking behaviour of the professoriate in selected federal universities in southwest Nigeria

“…A questionnaire consisting of both self-structured and adapted questions from previous studies was used to collect quantitative data from the professoriate. Items on information needs were adapted from Ezinwanyi and Opeke (2013); items on information seeking, access, and use of electronic information sources were adapted from Xuemei (2010); and, items on attitude were from Larbi-Apau and Moseley (2012). Adapting questions from previous empirical studies give credence to the external validity of the instrument (Shadish, Cook & Campbell 2002).…”