A survey on the information seeking behavior of faculty members of Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh Branch

Subject Areas : Journal of Knowledge Studies

adeleh ahangar ¹ (Islamic Azad University, North Tehran Branch)
mehrdokht vazirpoor keshmiri ² (Department of Library and Information Science, North Tehran Branch)

Received: 2015-07-01 Accepted : 2015-10-18 Published : 2009-02-19

Keywords: Faculty Members, Islamic Azad University, Information resources, University libraries, Information seeking behavior, Library resources, Firoozkooh Branch,

Abstract :

The aim of the present research is to study the information seeking of faculty members of Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh Branch. Data were collected using a questionnaire. They were distributed among 294 faculty members. By means of Krejcie and Morgan's table 165 samples were selected. Research findings indicate that faculty members' important aims are preparing scientific articles, updating their professional knowledge. So, they use books, Internet and scientific journals. They also evaluated the currency and updatedness of university library less than average. The most common problems of respondents in the time of seeking information are: lack of time, unavailability of information materials in the library and unfamiliarity with search strategies in online information seeking. Finally, research hypotheses are confirmed by Chi-square test.