Information Seeking Behavior of Law Students in Pakistan
| Autor: | Jibran Jamshed, Samza Fatima, Muhammad Bilal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Zdroj: | Global Legal Studies Review. :1-9 |
| ISSN: | 2708-2466 2708-2458 |
| DOI: | 10.31703/glsr.2021(vi-iv).01 |
| Popis: | The major goal of this empirical study is to determine how undergraduate law students obtain legal knowledge. A survey research design was adopted, and a structured questionnaire was distributed through convenient sampling among the law students (n=257) of two participating public universities, the Islamia University of Bahawalpur and Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan. The questionnaire was first per-tested by two experts and then pilot-tested among the 15 respondents. The statistical package SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science V 23) is used to evaluate data, which is then displayed in tables with frequencies,means, modes, and percentages. Respondents frequently encountered Content, efficacy, and availability barriers, such as 'no access to full text once references are identified' (M= 3.67, SD= 3.388), 'doubt about the existence of relevant information (M=3.54, SD=2.451), 'it takes too long to find the answers' (M=3.66,SD=1.617), and 'it is easier to ask a colleague' (M=3.63, SD=1.221). The study concluded that the use of university law libraries among students is not popular. Only 4.6 Percent of students consider the law library as the first source of information when they face a difficult legal question. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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