Coping with Information Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information in Academic Libraries
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 27pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;">Th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Regional Information Center for Science and Technology (RICeST)
2016-03-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Information Science and Management |
| Online Access: | https://ijism.ricest.ac.ir/index.php/ijism/article/view/293 |
| Summary: | <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 27pt; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;">This paper aims to investigate the current status of </span><span class="hps">coping with</span> Information Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information <span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;">in Academic Libraries. In order to fulfill the aim of the study, </span><span style="mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino-Roman;">241 Graduate Students</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;"> from 7 academic schools</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino-Roman;"> of Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Unit: </span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">Faculty of</span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">Humanities</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">,</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Economics and Management</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">,</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Science</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">,</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> Engineering</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"> Art</span></span><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN">and Architecture</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">,</span></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> <span class="hps">Agriculture</span></span></span><span class="hps"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span class="hps"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN;" lang="EN"> Dental</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-fareast-font-family: Palatino-Roman;">,</span><span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;"> answered the questions on their need to </span><span class="hps">coping with</span> information resources<span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;">. </span>This is a survey research which has been carried out by employing a questionnaire and SPSS for windows to analyze data. The results showed that graduate students for identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information<span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;">, </span>used methods and media such as reviewing of information resources, <span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;">sites on the Internet related to subjects, using electronic citations</span>, the <span style="mso-bidi-language: FA;">Internet and search engines</span>.</span></span></p> |
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| ISSN: | 2008-8302 2008-8310 |