Assessing the Information Need and Seeking Behaviour of Journalists

This book is useful in many ways. It shows how the information seeking behavior is different from the other professional groups. Besides, this study also explore the information seeking patterns of various categories of journalists. The chapter of contribution of newspaper libraries in news making is also discussed. The book is specially designed to cater to the information needs of students of Journalism and library professionals. This book is also discussed the various sources required and used by the journalists in their day to day work. Also discussed the information requirement of the various categories of journalists. It is felt that this book would be helpful to initiate further studies so that more empirical data is available to professionals to enable them to serve the journalists more effectively and efficiently. It is hoped that this book would be useful for the students of journalism, media libraries, working journalists, librarians, researchers of Library and Information Science etc. The author hope, the students and, researchers of Library and Information Science and Journalism will find this text more useful.

Autorentext

Dr.Gurdev Singh, M.A.(Eco),MLISc,PhD.(DU), is Librarian at Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce,University of Delhi,India.Having 27 years of experience in this profession.Published 4 books,published several research papers on various aspects of Library and Information Science in national and international Journals of repute.