Demographic differences in International students' information source uses and everyday information seeking challenges

• Main Author: Sin, Sei-Ching Joanna
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: International students; Information sources; Information seeking challenges; User characteristics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105645; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25995; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2015.04.003
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

International students are a sizeable user group of academic libraries. However, their everyday life information seeking (ELIS) behavior is seldom studied. This hinders the planning of information services and information literacy training. In light of this gap, this study surveyed 112 international...