Todd Shipman is Education Librarian in Auburn University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]; Susan H. Bannon is Associate Professor and Director in the Learning Resources Center at Auburn University; e-mail: [email protected]; Kimberly Nunes-Bufford is a Library Media Specialist at West Forest Intermediate School in the Opelika City Schools; e-mail: [email protected]...

This study aims to determine the prevalence and correlates of information seeking anxiety among a group of postgraduate students at a research-intensive university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 38-item Information Seeking Anxiety Scale was administered to 375 postgraduate students drawn from a population of 11000 using stratified random sampling method. Results of the study revealed that infor...

purpose: the aim of this study was to investigate the barriers to information seeking behaviors (in the phases of needs identification, information seeking, designing search strategy formula, and using information) of faculty members of islamic azad university of shiraz based on the expansion of dervin’s sense making theory (kari’s theory). methodology: this is an applied study using the survey...

Because both critical thinking and library anxiety have been found to play an important role in determining learning outcomes, it is possible that these two constructs are related in some way. To date, however, this link has not been empirically examined. In the present study, we have attempted to identify the nature of the association between critical thinking disposition and library anxiety a...

this study aims to introduce the information seeking anxiety construct as a phenomenon among postgraduate students. it also presents the information seeking anxiety scale (isas) as a valid and reliable instrument. further, the current study investigates the prevalence of information seeking anxiety among postgraduate students at a research-intensive university in kuala lumpur, malaysia. results...

The major purpose of this paper was to investigate the information seeking behaviour of undergraduate law students of a developing country. Specifically, the paper made efforts to globally review related literature on legal information, library information and its relevance to lawyers and law students, Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the legal profession, information services t...

purpose: this study aims to assess the information seeking behavior of medical science university researchers using neural network in khorasan razavi. methodology: the study is an applied and descriptive survey which is conducted through the quantitative approach using neural networks.the data were collected through the questionnaire to examine the information seeking behavior of medical scienc...