خلاصة:
This paper is aimed at investigating the current status of coping with Information
Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information in
Academic Libraries. In order to fulfill the aim of the study, 241 Graduate Students
from 7 academic schools of Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Unit: Faculty of
Humanities Economics and Management Science Engineering Art and
Architecture Agriculture and Dental collage participated in this study.They were
supposed to answer the questionnaire developed by Salajegheh (2009) on the
“Needs to cope with information resources”. The data collected from the
administration of the above mentioned test were then analyzed by SPSS for
windows and the descriptive statistics mean. The results showed that for
identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information, graduate
students used methods and media such as ‘reviewing of information resources’,
‘sites on the Internet related to subjects’, ‘using electronic citations’, and ‘the
Internet and search engines’.
ملخص الجهاز:
com Abstract This paper is aimed at investigating the current status of coping with Information Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information in Academic Libraries.
The aim of this research is to cope with information resources: identifying, searching, accessing, evaluating and using information in academic libraries of graduate students in Shiraz Islamic Azad University.
Information Seeking Behavior Models In their study on information searching and assessments, Rowlands, Nicholas, Williams, Huntington, and Fieldhouse (2008) showed that young people rely heavily on search engines, and do not possess the critical and analytical skills to assess the information they find on the Web. On the topic of need as a basis for information seeking behaviour and determining the needs, Wilson's (2006) research showed that before starting seeking for information, the context of research must be narrowed or the research subject must be limited and the real need determined.
Zawawi and Majid's (2001) research on information needs and seeking behaviour revealed that in spite of having access to modern and up to date digital information resources, most respondents still preferred using printed materials.
In 1993, Ellis, Cox and Hall compared information seeking behaviour patterns of research in physics and socials sciences and found that they were identical.
Meho and Tibbo (2003) replicated Ellis's information seeking behaviour model of social scientists on another research communities;their findings supported the six stages of Ellis's model were supported.
Information Searching and Retrieval Models Kuhlthau, Spink, and Cool (1992) defined a strategy as "a tactic used to seek information or to work through a stage of the search process.