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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Information behaviours"”.
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Planning families in Zaria: an investigation into the information-behaviours and favoured advice-givers of parents in northern Nigeria.
… availability of precise, impartial and credible information is crucial to building knowledge and empowering citizens to make rational individual and collective decisions. For this reason, the usefulness of information for satisfying identified needs is strongly dependent on the appropriateness of …
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Planning families in Kaduna: an investigation into the information-behaviours of parents, frontline and religious information providers in northern Nigeria.
… feelings and experiences when in contact with information. For this reason, the provision of objective, accurate and open information in public health initiatives is crucial to knowledge formation and essential for engaging in high-quality decision making on the premise of trust. Despite …
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Towards a model of information behaviour of a information provider: a mixed methods study.
Not much is not known about the totality of information behaviours of information providers from among the plethora of library and information science literature. This research aims to describe, categorise and devise a representation of information workers experiences as they engage in information …
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A study of lawyers’ information behaviour leading to the development of two methods for evaluating electronic resources
In this thesis we examine the information behaviour displayed by a broad cross-section of academic and practicing lawyers and feed our findings into the development of the Information Behaviour (IB) methods - two novel methods for evaluating the functionality and usability of electronic resources. …
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A study of lawyers' information behaviour leading to the development of two methods for evaluating electronic resources
In this thesis we examine the information behaviour displayed by a broad cross-section of academic and practicing lawyers and feed our findings into the development of the Information Behaviour (IB) methods - two novel methods for evaluating the functionality and usability of electronic resources. …
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Exploring the experiences of Australian science researchers; Library, Google and beyond
… level of research, continuous provision of information is required. As a result of developments of digital technologies, the information behaviour of academics, both as consumers and creators of new information and knowledge, has evolved and changed over the decades. In this study, the …
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Mixing the library: information interaction and the DJ
… and to make new discoveries with the available information.<br/>The aim of this research is to identify and describe a system for interacting with large volumes of digital material that supports both learning and creative development. This is done by investigating the Disc Jockey (DJ) who works …
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A theory of the use of information for environmental planning : the case of Botswana
This study is about the use of information by people work roles. Although the use of information is a key issue in information systems theory and practice, it has received little attention from information systems researchers. Information systems research has been biased towards technology and its …
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E-book adoption in academic and research libraries
… framework based on technology adoption and information behaviour theory, the study sought explanations of adoption behaviours in the population. In a triangular research design, that included a survey, ECU users were invited to self-describe their own patterns of e-book behaviour. Survey …