...Kodjo Atiso; Jenna Kammer; Denice Adkins Purpose This study aims to examine the information needs of Ghanaian immigrants who have settled in Maryland in the USA. Design/methodology/approach Using an ethnographic approach, immigrants from Ghana shared their information needs, challenges...

...Essam Mansour Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the information needs and information-seeking behaviour of Syrian refugees displaced to Egypt. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data in the form of three focus groups were collected from 37 Syrian refugees who have displaced...

... with drug information needs related to the treatment of their patients. There are many ways in which health-care professionals can acquire drug information. They use printed and electronic resources to meet their drug information needs. However, with the emergence of the Internet in 1990s, health-care...

... section describes rural library services in Bangladesh. The second section discusses the results of FGDs carried out separately in ten rural communities in northern areas of Bangladesh. Findings The results of FGDs highlight the general information needs of rural communities, their reading, listening...

...Sanjica Faletar Tanackovic; Darko Lacovic; Snjezana Stanarevic Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a small scale study the aim of which was to survey the information needs and library usage of major long‐established national minorities (Serbian, Hungarian and Slovak...