Information access and library user needs in developing countries [electronic resource] / Mohammed Nasser Al-Suqri, Linda L. Lillard, and Naifa Eid Al-Saleem, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2014.Description: electronic texts (226 p.) : digital filesISBN:- 9781466643543 (ebook)
- 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
- 020.9172/4 23
- Z665.2.D44 I54 2014e
- Also available in print.

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.
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"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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