The Role of Mobile Devices in Promoting obtain and Use of Information: An descriptive Study on Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2018, Page 80-108 PDF (1.13 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2018.70336 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Ali Abdel Mohsen Ali Mohamed* | ||||
| قسم المکتبات جامعة المنوفية | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The purpose of this study is to identify the extent to which the community of beneficiaries at imam university needs to obtain information using mobile devices , the fields of information usage and the nature of their use of these devices. The study used the descriptive approach and relied on the questionnaire as a primary data collecting tool. The study found that the beneficiaries of the colleges of Medicine , Computer and information , Languages and translation , Media and communication and Engineering are among the most popular users of mobile devices in obtaining information. Mobile phones lead the mobile devices in obtaining information , searching for information is the first objective for the purposes of using the Mobile devices for faculty members, as well as that imam university does not provide sources of information using Mobile devices. The study recommended that the imam university library should provide appropriate applications to provide information services using mobile devices, and allocate the appropriate budgets for the development of the hardware and software required to implement mobile technology in the provision of information. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Mobile Devices; Imam Muhammad Bin Saud Islamic University | ||||
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