A Study on Information Seeking Behavior of the Medical and Allied College Students in Goa State

This paper attempts to explore the information seeking behavior of medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy and homeopathic colleges in goa state. The purpose of the study is to know the awareness and use of reference sources available in the library and to know the preference of media as a source of info...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Library philosophy and practice 2019-03, p.1-17
Hauptverfasser:	Kannappanavar, B U, Hugar, Jayaprakash G
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Academic libraries College students Computer industry Computers Health sciences Information seeking behavior Information sources Internet resources Librarians Library and information science Library associations Library collections Medical libraries Medical research Nursing Objectives Pharmacy Portable computers Questionnaires Reference services Researchers Scientists Search engines Software
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Zusammenfassung:	This paper attempts to explore the information seeking behavior of medical, dental, nursing, pharmacy and homeopathic colleges in goa state. The purpose of the study is to know the awareness and use of reference sources available in the library and to know the preference of media as a source of information for their requirement. Results found that, still 95 percent respondents refer/depend upon printed books for their information needs.Only 49 percent students are happy with the internet and online resources available in their college libraries. Further researcher suggested that, the library orientation has to be conducted regularly to convert another 30 percent students to make use of their college library by giving more importance to electronic sources and services.
ISSN:	1522-0222