خلاصة:
Objectives: The aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences in using printed and electronic resources. Methods: The descriptive research method was a survey method. The research was implemented by using an organized questionnaire which was distributed among the statistical population, 114 faculty members of the university. Results: The findings show that meeting the faculty members' research needs is the most important purpose and stimulation for this group, because 91.2% of faculty members had chosen this objective. The mean of the central library role was 3.15 for meeting the faculty members' information needs. In faculty members' opinion, the mean of existing facilities in the website of University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences was 3.29. Finally, the most resources used by this group were the printed resources. Discussion: Findings suggest that the facilities available in the central library and website of the university don’t respond the faculty members' information needs. As the target group declared that they had problems in accessing information via the internet, it seems that they need for some formal training such as holding educational workshops about using library, internet and databases.
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Pediatric Neurorehabilitation Research Center University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran Objectives: The aim of this research was to study information seeking behavior and the pattern of reading behavior of faculty members of University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences in using printed and electronic resources.
Further, since libraries incur a large amount of costs to provide research sources, it appears justifiable and essential for some studies to be carried out to identify actual information needs and information seeking behavior (ISB) of managers and professionals in organizations, of the members of university scientific directorate, and of other institutions (10).
Factors related to information seeking behavior of the faculty members of some research institutes were studied by Noushin Fard (24) and finally, in 2008, this specific type of behavior was investigated by Navadeh Ghareh Seyyed (25) among managers of Culture & Art Organization, Tehran Municipality.
The present study, with its applied objective, is an attempt to investigate the information seeking behavior of the faculty members of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences.
This research was aimed at studying the information seeking behavior, and information searching channels used by the faculty members of the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences; at identifying weak and strong points of the central library of the university in its support for provision of educational and research services for the faculty members; and at recognizing the means generally utilized by these members.