Personal factors and personal information activities behaviors of faculty in selected universities in Ghana

Donkor, Antonia Bernadette; Nwagwu, Williams

doi:10.1016/j.lisr.2019.100985

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“…This paper was extracted from a larger quantitative survey whose instrument was developed from an interview-guided-qualitative process (Donkor, 2019). This study is therefore logically positioned within the mixed methods research paradigm.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In an earlier study, Asperholm et al (2020) showed that the mean sex difference in episodic memory heavily depended on the type of material to be remembered. The influence of rank on faculty PIM behavior was examined in the study by Donkor and Nwagwu (2019), and they showed that rank made a difference in information creation, organization and storage, but the university of affiliation made a difference in information creation and information storage, and not in information organization.…”

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Personal factors and the role of memory in faculty refinding of stored information

Nwagwu

Donkor

2022

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PurposeThe study examined the personal information management (PIM) challenges encountered by faculty in six universities in Ghana, their information refinding experiences and the perceived role of memory. The study tested the hypothesis that faculty PIM performance will significantly differ when the differences in the influence of personal factors (age, gender and rank) on their memory are considered.Design/methodology/approachThe study was guided by a sample survey design. A questionnaire designed based on themes extracted from earlier interviews was used to collect quantitative data from 235 faculty members from six universities in Ghana. Data analysis was undertaken with a discrete multivariate Generalized Linear Model to investigate how memory intermediates in the relationship between age, gender and rank, and, refinding of stored information.FindingsThe paper identified two subfunctions of refinding (Refinding 1 and Refinding 2) associated with self-confidence in information re-finding, and, memory (Memory 1 and Memory 2), associated with the use of complimentary frames to locate previously found and stored information. There were no significant multivariate effects for gender as a stand-alone variable. Males who were aged less than 39 could refind stored information irrespective of the memory class. Older faculty aged 40–49 who possess Memory 1 and senior lecturers who possess Memory 2 performed well in refinding information. There was a statistically significant effect of age and memory; and rank and memory.Research limitations/implicationsThis study was limited to faculty in Ghana, whereas the study itself has implications for demographic differences in PIM.Practical implicationsIdentifying how memory mediates the role of personal factors in faculty refinding of stored information will be necessary for the efforts to understand and design systems and technologies for enhancing faculty capacity to find/refind stored information.Social implicationsUnderstanding how human memory can be augmented by technology is a great PIM strategy, but understanding how human memory and personal factors interplay to affect PIM is more important.Originality/valuePIM of faculty has been extensively examined in the literature, and limitations of memory has always been identified as a constraint. Human memory has been augmented with technology, although the outcome has been very minimal. This study shows that in addition to technology augmentation, personal factors interplay with human memory to affect PIM. Discrete multivariate Generalized Linear Model applied in this study is an innovative way of addressing the challenges of assimilating statistical methodologies in psychosocial disciplines.

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Personal factors and the role of memory in faculty refinding of stored information

Nwagwu

Donkor

2022

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“…Pervious literature showed that questionnaire is appropriate tool for data collection in studies related with information behavior (Ameen, 2016; Awan et al, 2019; Donkor and Nwagwu, 2019; Yasmin et al, 2019) For measuring PIM practices and mobile self-efficacy of undergraduate student, structured questionnaire was used that consisted of general information, personal information management practices through mobile phone and mobile self-efficacy. First part of questionnaire (personal information management practices through mobile phone) was designed based on the five-point Likert-type scale (never, rarely, sometimes, often, always).…”

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Personal information management through ubiquitous devices: Students’ mobile self-efficacy and PIM practices

Ali

Warraich

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This study aims to explore personal information management (PIM) practices of undergraduate university students on ubiquitous devices such as mobile phones. The purpose was to investigate the relationship between mobile self-efficacy and mobile-based PIM practices of the respondentsin terms of finding/re-finding, keeping and organizing information. This study was the offspring of a PhD project. The quantitative research design was used to conduct this study. Structured questionnaire was used to collect data from undergraduate students Regression analysis was applied to investigate the relationship between mobile self-efficacy and their mobile based PIM practices. The findings revealed that undergraduate students search, browse, and scan information through mobile phones. They used keywords, searched from recently opened file, and from send item to find/re-find information. They save their personal information in folders, use mobile applications, and take screen shot of information to keep it for future use. Current study reported “ Sharing as keeping ‘as a new phenomenon in mobile based personal information keeping (ubiquitous environment). This study also reported ‘ Ubiquity’ as an emerging trend in PIM among young generation. Study found positive correlations between mobile self-efficacy and mobile based PIM. Current study developed a model of mobile self-efficacy and PIM. Based on new phenomena “ sharing as keeping’ (which occurred in current study), a model “mobile based personal information keeping” may be developed. This study helps software developers of smartphones to develop mobile phone applications according to users’ needs. This study provides better understanding of PIM model (finding/re-finding, keeping and organizing information) through ubiquitous devices (smart phones). Although studies have been conducted to know the impact or relationship between mobile self-efficacy and PIM, but no comprehensive study has been conducted to explore the relationship between mobile self-efficacy and the holistic picture of mobile based PIM (finding/re-finding, keeping, and organizing information) especially in developing countries like Pakistan.

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“…PIM practices in the working environment have been specifically compelling to many researchers as Barreau (1995) investigated PIM practices of managers, and Pikas (2007) explored the PIM practices of senior engineers in the research environment. University faculty has also been the subject of PIM studies (Donkor and Nwagwu 2019;Shirazi et al 2017). Diekema and Olsen (2011) who studied the PIM practices of teachers found that teachers organise information according to their scheme and the scheme may differ if their information packages differ.…”

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Personal knowledge and information management practices of life sciences research students in Pakistan

Saleem¹,

Ameen²,

Ashiq

2021

MJLIS

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The study investigated personal knowledge and information management (PKIM) practices of life sciences research students and also compared their PKIM practices based on gender and research programme. The study employed survey reserach design in which questionnaire was used to collect data. All MPhil. and PhD. life sciences research students at the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan were sampled. Altogether 196 questionnaires were distributed and 114 were successfully returned with a response rate of 58 percent. The findings are presented based on the five aspects of PKIM practices of research students: (a) gathering and searching; (b) organising, keeping and securing; (c) selecting and evaluating; and (d) spreading and sharing; and (e) creating, analyzing, and presenting. The findings revealed that research student were exceptionally confident about their PKIM practices. The research students also acclaimed that they were gaining information literacy skills in practising PKIM. The PKIM practices validated in the study may help educators to design training programmes for research students in Pakistan. This study recommends library and information science researchers to investigate PKIM practices on larger scales with different populations as the idea needs more exploration to thoroughly understand the academic research environment.

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Personal factors and personal information activities behaviors of faculty in selected universities in Ghana

Cited by 16 publications

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Personal factors and the role of memory in faculty refinding of stored information

Personal factors and the role of memory in faculty refinding of stored information

Personal information management through ubiquitous devices: Students’ mobile self-efficacy and PIM practices

Personal knowledge and information management practices of life sciences research students in Pakistan

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