User Needs and Behavior seems to be a course for the psychology field, but hey, librarians also need to know more about their users. So, what about the user?……Who cares about the users? Why do you study about user needs and behavior? Why does librarians need to study them? This will be some of the questions this site will be answering.

As the course will go along, I will also be learning about  my user’s needs and behavior. 

As part of the requirements of the course WXGB6303-User Needs and Behavior(Master in Library and Information Science, Faculty of Computer and Information Technology, University of Malaya) this site is born…..

This course is approached from a variety of perspectives to understand users’ diverse information needs and search behavior patterns and how they retrieve and use information from a variety of information environments. It explores the individual and the social perspectives of cognitive and affective aspects in a range of complementary modes of information seeking, from undirected viewing to formal searching that retrieves focused information for action or decision making.  

 

User Needs and Behavior, Syllabus  - course syllabus