Information Seeking Habits of IT Professionals

Today information is essential for all round development of the society. Information brings people and thoughts together. Generally information is a concept, an idea, a statement, a fact, news etc. Information seeking has been an important human activity since progress. Human seek information to gather, store interpret and use for various purposes. Information is important to increase the awareness, to change the current state of knowledge, to address a need and to solve a problem. It is described as a planned search for information.Information seeking includes purposive as well as incidental activity. Before the advent of the internet, the information resources in the physical world used to play a central role in information seeking. This book covers the Information seeking habits of the software professionals and also covers Kind of Information requirements, Sources preferred by the software professionals, Problem faced by the software professionals, various media used by the software professionals etc...