Personal Information Creation, Storage and Finding Behaviours of Faculty in Selected Universities in Ghana
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Date
2022
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Afr. J. Lib. Arch. & Inf. Sc.
Abstract
The objectives of this study are to examine
personal information creation and storage by
faculty in selected universities in Ghana. The
study also examined the factors associated with
information finding/re-finding experiences of the
faculty in their personal electronic and print
information spaces and the influence of
computer literacy in this regard. Data was
collected from 235 faculty members of six
universities in Ghana using a questionnaire.
Faculty reported that they created personal
information in an organised manner, and in
comparison, with print, they created electronic
information the most, and based on task at hand.
Respondents strongly agreed that they found
electronic information better when the
information item is in a folder and has a content
that relates to the folder name. They self reported their computer literacy to be mainly
intermediate level skill acquired mostly through
workshops and personal efforts. The result
shows a significant but marginal relationship between computer literacy and re-finding
personal electronic information (df=1, B=0.238,
p=0.001), but not finding/re-finding personal
print information. Irrespective of demographic
characteristics, strengthening computer literacy
targeted at faculty will improve refinding of
previously stored electronic information.
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Research Article
Keywords
Personal Information Management, Information Literacy, Computer Literacy, Information Re-Finding