Coping with Information Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information in Academic Libraries

This paper is aimed at investigating the current status of coping with Information Resources: Identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information in Academic Libraries. In order to fulfill the aim of the study, 241 Graduate Students from 7 academic schools of Islamic Azad University, Shiraz Unit: Faculty of Humanities, Economics and Management, Science, Engineering, Art and Architecture, Agriculture, and Dental collage participated in this study.They were supposed to answer the questionnaire developed by Salajegheh (2009) on the “Needs to cope with information resources”. The data collected from the administration of the above mentioned test were then analyzed by SPSS for windows and the descriptive statistics mean. The results showed that for identifying, Searching, Accessing, Evaluating and Using Information, graduate students used methods and media such as ‘reviewing of information resources’, ‘sites on the Internet related to subjects’, ‘using electronic citations’, and ‘the Internet and search engines’.