the use of social networking sites (snss) by faculty memeber, slis's paaet. dr. essam mansour
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The main purpose of this study is to describe the usage of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) by the faculty members of one of the Arabic Library and Information Science Schools, namely the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS), the College of Basic Education, the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), Kuwait.TRANSCRIPT
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The Use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) by the Faculty Members of the School of Library & Information Science, PAAET, Kuwait
A paper presented in the Asian Conference on Literature & Librarianship ( 4-7 April, 2013, Japan)
The Electronic Library Journal (Publisher: Emerald), 2015. Vol. 33, Issu. No. 4
Dr. Essam Mansour*
Assistant professor
The School of Library & Information Science, the College of Basic Education, PAAET, Kuwait &
The Faculty of Arts, South Valley University (SVU), Qena, Egypt
Keywords: Social Media, Social Networking Sites, Faculty Members, Kuwait
Abstract:
The main purpose of this study is to describe the usage of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) by the faculty members of one of the Arabic Library and Information Science Schools, namely the School of Library and
Information Science (SLIS), the College of Basic Education, the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training
(PAAET), Kuwait. The study used a descriptive design. It employed quantitative research methodology in the form of a survey, which was undertaken from March to May 2011. The survey instrument was a self-administrated
questionnaire, which was designed to collect data from the population of the study. There were a total number of 37
instructors at PAAETs SLIS working as full time members, and 11 instructors who were working as part time members who were involved all in teaching process in the education year 2011/2012. Of the whole number (48), 33 returned their valid questionnaires representing 68.75% of the total number. This sample represents professors,
associate professors, assistant professors, lecturers, teaching assistants and trainers in the school in its two branches
(boys and girls). Of these 33 faculty members, only 21 (63.6%) members were using SNSs and 12 (36.4%) members who were not using SNSs. Findings revealed that most of the participants tended to be males, aged between forty-one
and fifty years. Specifically, most of the faculty members who were using the SNSs were more likely to be males, aged
between thirty-one and fifty years, Ph. D holders, ranked as assistant professors, full time members, specialized in
information technologies with a teaching experience ranged from one to five years. On the other hand, most of the faculty members who were not using the SNSs were more likely to be also males, aged between forty-one and sixty
years, Ph. D holders, ranked as lecturers, full-time members, specialized in organization of information with a
teaching experience ranged from sixteen to twenty years. Findings showed also that faculty members were using SNSs for various reasons like to communicate with others, make new friends, exchange ideas with others, find some information, share some information with peers and share information with students. A large number of SNSs users confirmed that tasks such as making communication, sending/receiving messages, finding general information and finding specific information were at least important to them. Faulty members reported that the most widely used social media they were using were YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and
Blogs respectively. They were also interested in some other social media, like Podcasting and Wikis but not highly if
compared to the four other tools. Social media like YouTube, Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, Wikiks and Podcasting were at least effective to them. Both users and non-users of SNSs in this study confirmed that there are some important barriers to use SNSs. While SNSs users confirmed that lack of both time and awareness of SNSs as well as essential
skill were the most barriers, SNSs non-users confirmed that lack of time, awareness of SNSs, interest in SNSs and trust about these sites were the most barriers.
*Ph. D in Llibrary & Information Science, the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
MLIS in Library & Information Science, the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
BA in Library & Information Sciences, Cairo University, Egypt.
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