Malliari, Afrodite, Korobili, Stella and Zapounidou, Sofia Exploring the information seeking behavior of Greek graduate students : A case study set in the University of Macedonia. International Information and Library Review, 2011, vol. 43, n. 2, pp. 79-91. [Journal article (Paginated)]
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This paper describes a survey designed to determine the information seeking behavior of graduate students at the University of Macedonia (UoM). The survey is a continuation of a previous one undertaken in the Faculties of Philosophy and Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). This paper primarily presents results from the UoM survey, but also makes comparisons with the findings from the earlier survey at AUTh. The 254 UoM students responding tend to use the simplest information search techniques with no critical variations between different disciplines. Their information seeking behavior seems to be influenced by their search experience, computer and web experience, perceived ability and frequency of use of e-sources, and not by specific personal characteristics or attendance at library instruction programs. Graduate students of both universities similar information seeking preferences, with the UoM students using more sophisticated techniques, such as Boolean search and truncation, more often than the AUTh students.
Item type: | Journal article (Paginated) |
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Keywords: | Information seeking behavior; Academic libraries; Graduate students; Greece |
Subjects: | B. Information use and sociology of information > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CB. User studies. |
Depositing user: | Sofia Zapounidou |
Date deposited: | 28 Dec 2017 14:53 |
Last modified: | 28 Dec 2017 14:53 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10760/32102 |
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