Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Information literacy at work

Information literacy at work Purpose– The purpose of this paper was to investigate the information behaviour of Kuwaiti engineers with a focus on information sources and finding information from these sources, management of information found and re-finding of information from personal collections. Design/methodology/approach– Survey method of research was used to conduct the study. Data were collected using online questionnaire and interviews with a selected number of participants. Findings– Results indicated that engineers collected and received information from a variety of sources. They saved selected information for future use in folders and structured them by using work-related categories. Use of information management tools was not common. A majority of participants expressed the need for training courses in information literacy. They felt that lack of institutional support to facilitate access to information was considered a major difficulty in information seeking. Originality/value– No similar study could be found in the literature, as earlier studies either investigated personal information management practices or information seeking behaviour. This study looked at information literacy in a wider context. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Electronic Library Emerald Publishing

Information literacy at work

Chaudhry, Abdus Sattar; Al-Mahmud, Sarah
The Electronic Library , Volume 33 (4): 13 – Aug 3, 2015
Download PDF
13 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/emerald-publishing/information-literacy-at-work-7c3kBgzS4E

References (34)

Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISSN
0264-0473
DOI
10.1108/EL-04-2014-0063
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Purpose– The purpose of this paper was to investigate the information behaviour of Kuwaiti engineers with a focus on information sources and finding information from these sources, management of information found and re-finding of information from personal collections. Design/methodology/approach– Survey method of research was used to conduct the study. Data were collected using online questionnaire and interviews with a selected number of participants. Findings– Results indicated that engineers collected and received information from a variety of sources. They saved selected information for future use in folders and structured them by using work-related categories. Use of information management tools was not common. A majority of participants expressed the need for training courses in information literacy. They felt that lack of institutional support to facilitate access to information was considered a major difficulty in information seeking. Originality/value– No similar study could be found in the literature, as earlier studies either investigated personal information management practices or information seeking behaviour. This study looked at information literacy in a wider context.

Journal

The Electronic Library – Emerald Publishing

Published: Aug 3, 2015

There are no references for this article.