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Information access and library user needs in developing countries /

"This book highlights the struggles that developing countries face in terms of information gaps and information-seeking user behavior, providing ways in which users in developing countries can benefit from properly implementing LIS services"--Provided by publisher.

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Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Group Author: Al-Suqri, Mohammed Nasser, 1973- (Editor); Lillard, Linda L., 1951- (Editor); Al-Saleem, Naifa Eid, 1971- (Editor)
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pa. :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Library science > Developing countries.
Information science > Developing countries.
Information behavior > Developing countries.
Information services > Developing countries.
Electronic information resources > Developing countries.
Digital divide > Developing countries.
Libraries > Developing countries.
Library education > Developing countries.
Library information systems
LIS in developing countries
Online information-seeking behavior
Public services
Theories and models of information-seeking
User needs and behaviors
Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-4353-6
Summary: "This book highlights the struggles that developing countries face in terms of information gaps and information-seeking user behavior, providing ways in which users in developing countries can benefit from properly implementing LIS services"--Provided by publisher.
Carrier Form: PDFs (226 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781466643543 (ebook)
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: Z665
CLC: G259.1
Contents: The changing nature of information behavior and the information environment: challenges for LIS in the Arab Gulf States / Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri -- Culture, tradition and technology: the role of library and information science schools as integrative forces / Collence Takaingenhamo Chisita, Ismail Abdullahi -- The influence of social networking and Library 2.0 as a gateway for information access and knowledge sharing in Africa / Manir Abdullahi Kamba -- A proposal to study of cross language information retrieval (CLIR) system users' information seeking behavior / YooJin Ha -- Environmental context of information seeking behavior: applying a diffusion model to account for intervening variables / Rebecca L. Miller -- The Ellis model of information seeking behavior and the peripheral scientific community / Simon Aristeguieta-Trillos -- Developing electronic information resources to promote social inclusion of vulnerable communities in Uruguay / Martha Sabelli ... [et al.] -- Digitize or perish: strategies for improving access to indigenous intellectual resources in Sub-Saharan Africa / Stephen Asunka -- A comparison of the information needs and information seeking behavior of entrepreneurs in small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing and developed countries: a review of the literature / Linda L. Lillard -- Barriers to information access for specialized scholars: an analysis of information-seeking behavior of social scientists in developing countries / Lisa Block -- Where Do Mongolian scholars go?: the information seeking behavior within Mongolian scholarly communities / Thomas Scheiding, Borchuluun Yadamsuren, Gantulga Lkhagva -- "Lose your time in a useful way": digital inclusion of the elderly at a pensioners' club in Romania / James M. Nyce, Gail E. Bader, Cheryl Klimaszewski -- Contextual factors influencing information seeking behavior of social scientists: a review of the literature / Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri -- Undergraduate students information behavior in the changing technological era: an investigating of Sultan Qaboos University, Oman / Naifa Eid Al-Saleem.

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