1. Information Seeking Behaviour viv-a-vis Social Media: Emerging Need of LIS Profession
Presentation
ICMBL, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar: 25th -26th Nov., 2016
Dr. R. K. Mahapatra
Associate Professor & HOD
Dept. of Library & Inf. Science
Tripura University
(A Central University)

2. 1. Introduction Information seeking is the process in which persons persistently engage to exchange to change their state of knowledge (Marchionini, G., 1995) Information seeking is a conscious effort to acquire information in response to a need or gap in your knowledge (Case, D. O., 2012) Information seeking is the process of construction within information seeking involves fitting information in what one already knows and extending this knowledge to create new perspectives (Kuhlthau, C. C., 2004).
Information seeking is one such activity of in which all individual are indulged and this information seeking activity of each individual is equally manifested by a certain kind of behaviour (Wiberley , S. E., & Jones, W. G., 1989)
At the root of the problem of the information seeking behaviour is the concept of information need, which has proved intractable for the reason advanced (Wilson, T. D., 1981)
Information seeking behaviour has also over a period of time grown as an aspect of scholarly work to which academic librarians engaged in developing the collections, providing services in library to facilitate information seeking.

3. ICT has unfolded the ocean of knowledge, be it multimedia aspect of the technology of the web 2.0 application , there is looking back for humans, who day one day out are reaping all types of benefits of ICT. Technological developments have doubled the responsibility of the library professionals ICT applications have given a great deal of push to the library professionals as well. It become indispensible for the libraries and library professionals to follow the suit and they do have to be on their toes the ICT application has transformed the course of information production, it’s collection, it’s consumption, it’s dissemination and ultimately it’s exploitation.
Library professionals are supposed to be trained organisers of knowledge and information and are being also put at the responsibility to help the exploitation of information and when it comes to exploitation of social media this means there is an added responsibility of providing skills and search guidance of seekers of information.

4. 3. Information Needs (User)
2. ISB Needs With each passing day, the problem of satisfying the information needs of users is becoming complicated with deluge of information handled by technology. Some factors are: *Exponential growth of information: *Information resources (including electronic) and complexity: *Scattered Information: *Balance between Information Technology: *Emerging trends to access to information and future plan:
3. Information Needs (User)
Everyday needs
Catching up needs
Brushing up needs
Academic needs: Learning, teaching and research

5. 4. Information Seeking Process from library: Study of ISB Information needs Information seeking Information use Information exchange (Wilson, T. D., 1981) User education/ Empowering Database building Database management Information services (Kingrev, 2002) Information search, retrieval and meaningful contents

6. *Find, use, disseminate information 7. Who are the users?
5. Social Media Internet services where the online contents is generated by users of the service. Otherway Web 2.0, participatory / collaborative media The web 2.0 technologies provide a wide array of ICT tools that can be applied to information seeking for knowledge construction, immediate access to digital contents and social media tools for educational relevant learning activities (Mills, L. A., Knezek, G.A. & Wakefield, J. S., 2013) Problem solving style is another variable with potential influence on social media use as it has been found to affect web search behaviour and source selection (Kim, 2008; William, & Kim, 2012)
6. Why Social Media?
*Research and career
*Research and career Information to make an informed decision *Opportunity to improve the work
*Find, use, disseminate information
7. Who are the users?
Students, Academics, scholars Researcher-communicate and collaborate

7. 8. Social media tools:. Communication:. Collaboration:
8. Social media tools: *Communication: *Collaboration: *Multimedia: Communication: Blogging: blogger, Livejournal, Typepad, WordPress Microblogging: Twitter, Google buzz, Yammer Location: Facebook Places Social networking: Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace Writing tools Social professional networking tools: facebook,linkedIn Aggregators: Google Reader, Netvibe, iGoogle dashboards

8. Collaboration: Conferencing: Skype, GoToMeeting, Adobe Connect Wikies: PBwork, Wikia Social bookmarking: BibSonomy Social bibliography: Mendeley, CiteULike Social citation: Zotero Social news: Digg, Newsvine Social document: Google Docs, Dropbox Project management: Bamboo, Huddle
Multimedia: Photographs: FlicKr, Picasa Video: You Tube Live streaming: justin.tv Presentation sharing: SlideShare virtual world: OpenSim

9. 9. Conclusion Blogging, microblogging, social bookmarking, social/professional networking tools, mostly used by academics and research scholars. Facebook, LinkedIn, Friendfeed are the social networking services and ResearchGate, Nature Network Research specific services. (Survey: Social media, Feb. 2011)

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