Citation:Gunasekera, C. and Balasubramani, R. (2019). Identifying Information Needs of School Teachers in Sri Lanka and Factors Affect for their Information Needs. 3rd International Conference on Library and Information Management, Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p131
Date:2019
Abstract:
The main objective of this study is to examine school teachers’ information needs and the relationship
between demographic and professional factors with their information needs. The population of the
study consisted of graduate school teachers in government schools in Sri Lanka. The sample consisted
with 440 teachers and cluster sampling method was applied for the sample selection. A selfadministered
questionnaire was used as the main data collection tool and the received data were
analyzed SPSS (21.0). The study found that most of the teachers need information on particular subject
that they taught, followed by classroom management and teaching resources and it was found that
there is no significant relationship between the factors and teachers' information needs
