TY  - BOOK
AU  - Al-Suqri,Mohammed Nasser
AU  - Lillard,Linda L.
AU  - Al-Saleem,Naifa Eid
ED  - IGI eBooks.
ED  - IGI Global.
TI  - Information access and library user needs in developing countries
SN  - 9781466643543 (ebook)
AV  - Z665.2.D44 I54 2014e
U1  - 020.9172/4 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Hershey, Pa.
PB  - IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA)
KW  - Library science
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Information science
KW  - Information behavior
KW  - Information services
KW  - Electronic information resources
KW  - Digital divide
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Library education
KW  - Library information systems
KW  - LIS in developing countries
KW  - Online information-seeking behavior
KW  - Public services
KW  - Theories and models of information-seeking
KW  - User needs and behaviors
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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; Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers; Also available in print
N2  - "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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ER  -