Abstract
The present research aims to study information seeking behavior of faculty Members of Payame Noor University (PNU) in Mazandaran province of Iran by using Wilson’s model of information seeking behavior. This is a survey study. Participants were 97 of PNU faculty Members in Mazandaran province. An information-seeking behavior inventory was employed to gather information and research data, which had 24 items based on 5-point likert scale. Collected data were analyzed in SPSS software. Results showed that the most important goal of faculty members was publishing a scientific paper, and their least important goal was updating technical information. Also we found that they mostly use internet-based resources to meet their information needs. Accordingly, 57.7% of them find information resources via online search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo). Also we concluded that there was a significant relationship between English language proficiency, academic rank, and work experience of them and their information- seeking behavior.
Highlights
Humans may face several ambiguous questions and phenomena every day
This research aims to examine the effect of using internet on the information seeking behavior of faculty members of Payame Noor University (PNU) in Mazandaran province of Iran by using the Wilson’s model
When we are searching for further information in search engines or databases, we unexpectedly access the related information and other useful information; we show an active information seeking behavior
Summary
Humans may face several ambiguous questions and phenomena every day They require information to answer these questions and discover these phenomena. It should be noted that those individuals who can use these information, will have a limited ability to examine all of them They would rather have appropriate and accurate information to a high amount of information. Several researches have been conducted on the individuals’ information seeking behaviors and patterns. These researches illustrate that researchers have applied different methods for gaining information under the effect of different factors. Information seeking patterns provide the relationships, theoretical cases, and processes which are related to identifying and answering information needs
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