Information Needs, Information Sources and Information Use
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Surveys of the information needs of various groups of
users are a popular form of research methodology in
the library and information field, and the papers in this
issue offer a number of examples. The first, by Kendra
S. Albright and Dick Kawooya, presents the results of
a pilot survey of 'The Role of Information in Uganda's
Reduction of HIV/AIDS: individual perceptions of
HIV/AIDS information'. Though small in scale, the
survey elicited interesting comments by individual
Ugandans on their personal views of the impact of
HIV/AIDS and how they obtained information about
the disease and its effects. Uganda's multisectoral
strategy for the dissemination of HIV/AIDS through-
out society has been credited, in part, for the signifi-
cant reduction in the prevalence of AIDS in the
country in recent years. The results of this pilot survey
show that, while radio is the main source of general
information on AIDS, the main impact on behavioural
change has been from personal sources and through
informal channels of communication. Information
and communication technologies (ICTs) do not
appear to play an important role in the dissemination
of HIV/AIDS information in Uganda.
The importance of personal contacts as sources of
information in African communities is also empha-
sized in the next paper, 'Income-generating Activities
and Sources of Information of Rural Women in
Botswana', by Neo Patricia Mooko. This reports on a
survey of women in three rural villages in Botswana,
whose ability to use conventional sources of infor-
mation is severely limited because of their low levels
of literacy and general education. Access to con-
ventional sources was, in any case, limited; for
example, none of the three villages had a library. The
women therefore depended mainly on agricultural
demonstrators, friends, relatives, neighbours and
women's organizations for information in support of
their income-generating activities.
Although the user group which was the subject of
the third study reported here had access to a library in
principle, it was 6 kilometres away from their place of
work, and most of them obtained current informationabout their profession by attending meetings, seminars
and conferences rather than by using the library or
computerized sources of information. The study is
described in the paper, 'Information Seeking by Nurses
in the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching
Hospital, Nigeria', by N.A. Ajayi. Based on a survey
of 500 professional nurses, the study showed that,
while the nurses were aware of their needs for current
information to keep abreast of the latest developments
in their profession, the existing library and information
services were not highly rated as information sources
and were unable to provide the information needed to
support evidence-based nursing practice.
The fourth survey reported in this issue takes us to
a different part of the world and a different group of
users. In their paper, 'Domestic Computer Usage and
Activities in West Coast Malaysia: age and income
differences',NoorIsmawatiJaafarandAinin
Sulaiman report on a survey of more than 3,000 home
computer owners in five states in Malaysia which
aimed to examine the level of domestic computer
usage and identify the common activities associated
with computers among the households. The results
show that teenagers are heavy domestic computer
users in comparison with users in other age groups,
while people with high incomes are heavier users than
those in low and middle income groups. While in
general most households use their computers for
entertainment, high income earners use them most for
work-related activities. The computer users who were
the subjects of this study were beneficiaries of one of
a number of government programmes designed to
increase computer ownership and ensure universal
access among the population; nevertheless, the authors
conclude that further government efforts are needed
to provide affordable connectivity so as to encourage
the sharing of information.
The next paper takes us back to Africa and to yet
another group of information users. In 'Statistical
Information Resources and Development Planning in
Ghana', Musah Adams and Jacqueline Dede Anum
report on a study which aimed to assess the extent to
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Information Use
which the information resources of the Ghana Statisti-
cal Service (GSS) were used by District Assemblies in
support of their development planning activities. The
results showed that the published reports and publi-
cations of the GSS were the main sources of statistical
information used by district level development
planners, who found out about these resources
through participating in workshops and seminars.
Although the information resources of the GSS were in
general considered adequate, the District Assemblies
encountered many obstacles in making use of them.
We remain in West Africa with the next paper the
only one in this issue not reporting the results of a
survey. In his paper, 'Grey Literature: the forgotten
collection in academic libraries in Sierra Leone', John
Abdul Kargbo describes how academic librarians in
Sierra Leone are preoccupied with the problems of
collection development amidst rising student enrol-
ments, new curricula and decreasing budgets and in
the face of a growing need for information and the
need to take account of the implications of the infor-
mation technology revolution. They need to demon-
strate their value to the educational process with the
effective collection and management of grey literature
and to learn how best they can deliver this literature
to a wide range of library users.
The final paper in this issue, 'Resource Sharing
Services and Constraints in Selected Seventh-day
Adventists University Libraries in Sub-Saharan
Africa', by Margaret Adeogun, reports on a study of
the resource-sharing practices and the views of librar-
ians, academic staff and students with regard to
resource-sharing, in five Seventh-day Adventist uni-
versity libraries in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda
and Zimbabwe. The study revealed that some of these
libraries were not involved in any kind of resource
sharing, while in others, the only forms of resource
sharing were referral of readers to other libraries and
very limited interlibrary lending. The author con-
cludes that the establishment of effective and well-
structured resource sharing services would help the
emerging Seventh-day Adventists university libraries
in Africa to provide better support to learning and
research activities on their campuses.
Divisions over the Digital Divide
In previous editorials (Vol. 17, no. 4 and Vol. 18, no. 1),
we have looked briefly at conflicting views on the true
extent of the digital divide, with some sources claiming
that it is still growing wider and others, that it is beingprogressively reduced. Now comes a statement said to
have come from one of the most authoritative inter-
national organizations the World Bank to the effect
that "The digital divide is rapidly closing".
According to a Reuters news item released on
Friday 24 February 2005,*
The 'digital divide' between rich and poor nations
is narrowing fast, the World Bank said on
Thursday, calling into question a costly United
Nations campaign to bring hi-tech telecommuni-
cations to the developing world. As some 1,700
international experts gathered in Geneva to
prepare for the UN's World Summit on the Infor-
mation Society (WSIS), the World Bank said in a
report that telecommunications services to poor
countries were growing at an explosive rate. ...
Half the world's population now enjoys access to
a fixed-line telephone, the report said, and 77
percent to a mobile network surpassing a WSIS
campaign goal that calls for 50 percent access by
2015. The report said there were 59 million fixed-
line or mobile phones in Africa in 2002 contra-
dicting Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's
claim at a UN news conference last year that
there were more telephones in Manhattan than in
all of Africa. "Unless New Yorkers and their
commuter friends have 12 phones each, Africa
now has many more telephones than Manhat-
tan," the World Bank report said.
The World Bank report is clearly worth studying in
more detail but where to find it? Neither the Reuters
item nor any of the many newspapers and radio and
television stations that picked it up gives any more
information about the report. The only mention of it
on the World Bank's own website is in yet another
reference to the text of the Reuters item as published
in two of these secondary sources. The website for the
World Summit on the Information Society contains
what is said to be a complete listing of all the docu-
ments submitted to the preparatory conference in
Geneva, but which also makes no reference to the
World Bank report. A Google search simply throws
up the original Reuters item and its many appearances
in other media.
'Digital divide' or not, it seems there are still other,
more basic, information gaps needing to be filled in
this so-called Information Age!
*http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=top
News&storyID=7731166
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