Department of Information Management University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract
The
study aims at reviewing the research studies
conducted to find out the information needs and
seeking behavior of educational administrators, and
other stakeholders of education enterprise. The
purpose of this review is to identify the important
variables affecting the information needs and seeking
behavior of educational administrators.
An effort is also made to review the status of such
research studies in Pakistan. The paper is based on
comprehensive review of available literature. For the
literature search, valid sources of published and
unpublished information were consulted (i.e., books,
journal articles, reports, conference/workshop
proceedings, theses, etc.). Recommendations and
conclusions are also drawn in the light of reviewed
literature.
The study reveals that many variables are affecting the
information needs and seeking behavior of educational
administrators: such as their work context,
administrative responsibilities and
work experience
along with
source preferences and use of information.
It
was also found that no comprehensive research
study was conducted to find out the information needs
and seeking behavior of educational stakeholders
working at the administrative positions in Pakistan
(i.e., deans, registrars, heads of departments in universities, school and college principals etc.)
