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

• 主要作者: Sin, Sei-Ching Joanna
• 其他作者: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2015
• 主題: International students; Information sources; Information seeking challenges; User characteristics
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105645; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25995; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2015.04.003

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...