- By Frederick Oman Ogar
- Issue No. 1 (Mar. 2019), Volume No.9
Degradation and Preservation Practices of Information Resources in Academic Libraries Incross River State, Nigeria
This study was set to investigate degradation and preservation practices of information resources in academic libraries in Cross River State, Nigeria. It examined the nature and causes of degradation of information resources, strategies used in their control, and constraints limiting effective preservation. The study adopted survey design. The population for the study constitutes all information […]
Read More- By B. O. G. Adetunla and P.A. Agbetuyi
- Issue No. 2 (Jun. 2018), Volume No.8
Preservation and Conservation of Electronic Information Resources in Private University Libraries of South-West, Nigeria
This study examined the preservation and conservation of electronic information resources (EIRs) in private university libraries in South – West, Nigeria. Three objectives were examined for the study namely; causes of deterioration of EIRs in private university libraries in South West, Nigeria; techniques for the preservation of EIRs in private university libraries in South – […]
Read More- By Enanu Tilahun and M Natarajan
- Issue No. 2 (Jun. 2016), Volume No.6
Information Seeking Behavior of Undergraduate Students of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of Jimma University
This paper is an outcome of the research study conducted by the authors on information seeking behavior of undergraduate students of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine of Jimma University, Jimma. Data has been collected through a structured questionnaire that was distributed to randomly select 300 students, wherein 289 of them have responded. The collected data has […]
Read More- By Nirmal Singh and Amarvir Singh Mann
- Issue No. 2 (Jun. 2015), Volume No.5
Information Seeking Behaviour of Lawyers of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana: A Case Study
The present study aims at an assessment of the information seeking behavior of lawyers of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh. The questionnaire was used as data collection tool and was distributed randomly among 200 advocates. Total 86 lawyers responded to the questionnaire making response rate of 44%. The study revealed that under influence of Information and […]
Read More- By Nirmal Singh and Dhiraj kumar
- Issue No. 2 (Jun. 2013), Volume No.3
Information Access and Utilization by Faculty of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University in Electronic Era
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have transformed the format of information resources vis-à-vis ways and means of accessing information. This has abolished the constraints of space and time and has taken the information to the desktops of users. This study examines the information access and utilization by faculty of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal […]
Read More- By K. M. Ravichandran, K.S.Sivakumaren, B. Jeyaprakash and S. Swaminathan
- Issue No. 1 (Mar. 2013), Volume No.3
Information Search Pattern of Engineering and Arts & Science Students in Web Environment: A Comparative Study
This paper investigates to find out the purposes of searching information on internet andcompared among the respondents in respect of search engines and information resources areused. The study was conducted among engineering and arts& science students who are pursuing their education at undergraduate and postgraduate level at various colleges located in and around Chennai. It […]
Read More- By Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri and Linda L. Lillard
- Issue No. 2 (Dec. 2011), Volume No.1
Barriers to Effective Information Seeking of Social Scientists in Developing Countries: The Case of Sultan Qaboos University in Oman
The purpose of the study was to investigate barriers affecting information-seeking behaviors of social science scholars at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman. It will help to redress the balance and provide a better understanding of the barriers and constraints facing scholars in the developing world. Qualitative data are collected using 21 e-mail interviews and […]
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