چکیده:
This study investigates how contextual factors such as culture, geographical location and religious status may either encourage, determine or prevent information seeking behavior. The study applied both qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection as a mixed-method. Fifteen Catholic clergymen from Northern Nigeria were interviewed and 109 participated in a survey. Findings show that geographical location, culture, and religious status may influence these clergy’s information seeking behavior. This paper contributes to research on information seeking in context. It may help in understanding the effects of some contextual factors, especially religious status, on information seeking behavior and, consequently, aid in the planning of library and information systems that meet the needs of the African clergy and theological institutions.
خلاصه ماشینی:
com Abstract This study investigates how contextual factors such as culture, geographical location and religious status may either encourage, determine or prevent information seeking behavior.
Although there are studies that have looked at the information seeking behavior of a group in context (Kazmer, Glueckauf, Ma, & Burnett, 2013; Olatokun & Ajagbe, 2010) and how various factors affect information seeking (Borgatti & Cross, 2003; Unertl, Johnson, & Lorenzi, 2012), not much attention has been given to investigating how the combined factors of culture, geographical location and religious status may affect the information seeking behavior of a group of information users such as the Catholic clergy, who are specially identified by their religious way of life as celibates.
This study investigates the Catholic clergy in Nigeria to understand whether contextual factors such as culture, geographical location and religious status as clergy may affect their information seeking behavior.
The research question relevant to this section asked: How do cultural, geographical and religious factors influence the information seeking of Catholic clergy in Northern Nigeria?
The participants were asked questions to determine whether their environment, culture or religious status as celibate clergy affect their information seeking practices.
At the first cycle coding, the expressions of the panicipants were placed into different categories created from interview questions; these were expressions concerning such things as how communal life and culture, the description of their geographical location, and their religious status as celibate clergy influence their information seeking.