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Information seeking behaviour of agricultural scientists with particular reference to their information seeking strategies

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Title Information seeking behaviour of agricultural scientists with particular reference to their information seeking strategies
 
Creator Singh, K. P.
Satija, M. P.
 
Description 213-220
The paper is an outcome of the research study conducted by the authors on information seeking behaviour of agricultural
scientists working in the ICAR institutions of Delhi and Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. Data has been collected
through the structured questionnaire and analyzed with the help of latest version of MS-Excel for appropriate statistical procedures
for the description (i.e., frequencies, percentage, means, and standard deviations, etc). Study discusses the findings of various
strategies and procedures adopted by the agriculture scientists in meeting their information requirements. The agriculture
scientists were asked to ranks the information sources in on the basis of I, II, and III in the order of priority. The survey result
shows that agriculture scientists have expressed great dependence in meeting their information requirements on their institutional
library/information centre. The Library/Information Centre is the most preferred source (72.05%) of the respondents for all
categories of agriculture scientists. On the other hand for accessing information, agriculture scientists highly depend on the
library collection, followed by the personal collection, collection of their supervisor and of their colleagues.
 
Date 2009-02-24T04:55:50Z
2009-02-24T04:55:50Z
2007-12
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0972-5423
http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3240
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher CSIR
 
Source ALIS Vol.54(4) [December 2007]