Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find out scholarly information seeking patterns of university faculty in Korea. It is important and necessary to understand their information seeking behavior and also to assess the characteristics of communication process of scholarly information seeking in order to build and operate efficient library information system. For this purpose, a questionaire consisting of 15 information seeking channels was designed and used for interviewing three major groups of professors namely science, social science and humanities. Based on the Statistical Analysis System analysis of the questionaire, it was found that there is significant differences among three specialization field groups for 11 out of 15 questions and there is significant differences among age groups for 7 out of 15 questions.