A Survey on strategy and information seeking skills of the students of Payame Nour University- Qom branch

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

saeed ghaffari ¹ ( Faculty member of Payame Noor University- Qom Branch. )

Received: 2010-12-26 Accepted : 2011-04-26 Published : 2011-11-22

Keywords: information skills, information seeking behavior, Payam-e Noor University- Qom branch, information technology,

Abstract :

Objective: The purpose of this research is to identify the information seeking skills of Bachelorsstudents studying at Payam-e Noor University, Qom Branch.Methodology: The research method is descriptive survey and in order to gather data, thequestionnaire was used. Among all statistical population, 200 students were chosen throughrandom cluster method. In order to carry out the statistical issues, the SPSS software was used.Findings: The most important goals of the students in terms of information seeking arepreparing their assignments (29%), accessing to updated information (23%) and carrying out thescientific researches. The textbooks (38%) and the periodic journals (19%) were used as theprinted information resources, by the students, respectively. Among the facilities used forseeking information, use of internet web with 42% and e-mail with 21% as well as chat roomswith 18% were with the highest frequency values. The tools used on the internet by the studentswere search engines (26%), meta search engines and information portals (17%), usingURL(12%), and introducing sites in newsletters and journals (11%) are also mentioned. Foraccessing published information, lack of knowledge about using the library indexes (20%) wasfeatured with the highest frequencies.Conclusion: 94% of female students and 84% of male students have problem using printed andinternet information resources. The students used internet with an average frequency of 33%.The most important problem in accessing to internet is the slow speed and the traffic of the net.There is a need for more education for using internet as they mentioned. Also, there is ameaningful relationship between the sex and use of internet as well as the Bachelors studentsstudying at Payam-e Noor University, Qom Branch and modern information sciencetechnologies.

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