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Web Information Seeking Behaviour of Final Year students at Babcock University, Nigeria

Authors: Soyemi Opeyemi

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Journal Of Applied Information Science And Technology

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Purpose: This study was carried out to investigate the web information seeking behavior of final year students at Babcock University, Nigeria.
Design/Methodology/Approach: The descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study. Five objectives and research questions were formulated to guide the study. A multistage sampling technique was used to select a sample size of 303 final year students. A self-designed questionnaire was used for data collection. 303 copies of the questionnaire were distributed with a return rate of 96%. The study used frequency count, percentage and mean score as statistical measures for data analysis.
Findings: The findings revealed that scanning broadly diverse sources on the web/internet (mean=2.46); searching based on specific subject area (mean= 2.29); identifying web sites containing information of interest (mean=2.29) are the information seeking strategies adopted. The result also revealed that both general and academic search engines and wikis/blogs were mostly utilized. Furthermore, majority of final year students spend considerably good duration of time web as well as use web information sources for academic purposes.
Implication: Undergraduates, particularly final year students now depend greatly on information sources available on the internet. This has implication for library and information service delivery to undergraduates as they are better engaged via web information services.
Originality/Value: It was recommended that Library and information service providers need to further educate undergraduates through instructional programs how to better source for information web to satisfy their information need. Also Management of universities should seek ways of improving the internet infrastructure in their institutions.

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Soyemi,O. . (2015). Web Information Seeking Behaviour of Final Year students at Babcock University, Nigeria, 8 (), 81-81.

Soyemi,O. . "Web Information Seeking Behaviour of Final Year students at Babcock University, Nigeria" 8, no (), (2015): 81-81.

Soyemi,O. and . (2015). Web Information Seeking Behaviour of Final Year students at Babcock University, Nigeria, 8 (), pp81-81.

SoyemiO, . Web Information Seeking Behaviour of Final Year students at Babcock University, Nigeria. 2015, 8 ():81-81.

Soyemi,Opeyemi , . "Web Information Seeking Behaviour of Final Year students at Babcock University, Nigeria", 8 . (2015) : 81-81.

S.Opeyemi , "Web Information Seeking Behaviour of Final Year students at Babcock University, Nigeria" vol.8, no., pp. 81-81, 2015.

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