The Impact of Technology Platform Change on the Information Seeking Behavior of Academicians in Amhara

Literature Review

Nui and Hemminger (2011) conducted research on the factors that affect the information seeking behavior of academicians and identified that demographic, psychological, role-related, and environmental factors (department types and library distance) affected the information seeking behavior of the academicians. In addition, Kumari et al., (2013) reported that a maximum number of teachers used the library to access books, use periodicals, journals and reference material for different purposes. The researcher added that maximum number of teachers never used audio-visual material as the source of information. However, these studies could not explore the effect of information and communication technology on the information seeking behavior of the academics’ environment.

Mohamed (2007) carried out a research on the use of ICT-based resources and services in special libraries in Kerala. The study concluded that ICT-based resources and services were highly significant for academic and research work. However, the orientation and training on the use of ICT to seek resources was inadequate.

Niu et al. (2010) conducted a survey on academic researchers in natural science, engineering, and medical science from five research universities in the United States to understand different aspects of researcher’s information-seeking behavior. The findings showed that electronic resources were used the most to search and access academic content so that the academic libraries should support the needs of scientists.