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Direct linkAdebowale Jeremy Adetayo; Elizabeth Bukunola Lateef; Rhoda Temitope Oyebola; Folashade Munirat Lawal – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2025
This study aimed to investigate the challenges faced by working students in patronizing library services in Nigeria and to propose tailored solutions to enhance their patronage. A descriptive survey research design was used to collect data from 110 working undergraduate students, which was then analyzed using descriptive statistics. The findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Use Studies, Barriers
Asif, Muhammad; Krogstie, John – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2011
Purpose: A mobile student information system (MSIS) based on mobile computing and context-aware application concepts can provide more user-centric information services to students. The purpose of this paper is to describe a system for providing relevant information to students on a mobile platform. Design/methodology/approach: The research…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Handheld Devices, Information Systems
Peer reviewedCole, Elliot – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981
Examines the assumptions which underlie the design of SDI systems with respect to context of use, activities supported by SDI, and characteristics which make documents useful. Relates these assumptions to the failure of SDI to gain widespread acceptance among scientific information users. A 43-item reference list is included. (JL)
Descriptors: Design, Failure, Information Retrieval, Information Services
Download full textRoderer, Nancy K.; And Others – 1983
This study describes the use and value of the major information products and services provided by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). These products and services include technical report distribution on an on-demand basis and through the Automatic Document Distribution (ADD) program; secondary information dissemination through online…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Databases, Federal Programs, Information Centers
Meredith, Joseph C. – 1975
A selective dissemination service (SRIM) of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) features semimonthly dissemination of microfiche copies of documents newly added to the NTIS collection, on the basis of interest profiles. The service was used to test a university subsystem wherein a number of individual profiles were combined and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, College Faculty, College Libraries, Databases
Leggate, P.; And Others – 1973
During a 2-year period (1970, 1971) SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) search profiles were written for 353 biologists and other research workers with a need for biological information in academic, industrial, and government research institutions. At the beginning of the experiment a questionnaire and interview survey was made of the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
University of Science, Penang (Malaysia). – 1983
A survey of 88 users of SISMAKOM, a computerized selective dissemination of information (SDI) and document delivery service provided by the Universiti Sains Malaysia and four other Malaysian universities, was conducted in August 1982 in order to collect data about SISMAKOM and to assess the value of a computerized SDI service in a developing…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Developing Nations, Information Retrieval
Peer reviewedFernandez, Leila – Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, 2002
Discusses results of a science faculty survey conducted at York University to determine researchers' use of current awareness services, including print and Web-based services. Considers differences between science disciplines and implications for future library services and includes a copy of the survey. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Peer reviewedOkocha, Kingsley Ferewisky; Odi, Amusi – International Information and Library Review, 1992
Describes a study that measured the effects of the information resources and services of a regional information resources center on the work of agricultural scientists in Nigeria. Highlights include user characteristics; rate of library use; scientists' information needs; trends in library demands; availability of journal articles; current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Centers, Information Needs, Information Services
Clague, P. – 1971
The investigation of the performance, economics, and acceptability to users of the selective dissemination of information (SDI) computer system that supported the International Information Service in Physics, Electrotechnology, Computers, and Control (INSPEC) during its initial testing phase is described. The initial design of the study, involving…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Electricity, Evaluation
