 
OpenAIR OpenAIR
 
 

OpenAIR @ RGU >
Business >
Information Management >
Journal articles (Information Management) >

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/132
This item has been viewed 17 times in the last year. View Statistics

Files in This Item:

File Description SizeFormat
LibMgmt 20-3 1999.pdf87.76 kBAdobe PDFView/Open
Title: The information needs of United Kingdom Members of the European Parliament (MEPs).
Authors: Marcella, Rita
Carcary, Iona
Baxter, Graeme
Keywords: European Parliament
Governance
Information management
Information retrieval
Issue Date: 1999
Publisher: Emerald
Citation: MARCELLA, R., CARCARY, I. and BAXTER, G., 1999. The information needs of United Kingdom Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Library Management, 1999, 20(3), pp.168-178.
Abstract: Investigates attitudes amongst decision makers in the European Parliament to the role of information in their work, and their ability to identify, access and evaluate that information most relevant to their needs. Aims to elicit data regarding levels of satisfaction amongst MEPs in relation to information retrieval, and to identify areas of information need which were not being addressed. Describes research methodology and analyses results. Results reveal the wide range of subjects that are of interest to MEPs; that all MEPs have research assistants to help in their work, with an average of 3.5 assistants per MEP; the majority of these assistants are based in the UK and are employed full-time; and that the most popular sources were unofficial, informal contacts and MEPs’ own files, as opposed to the official EU databases and services. Finds that the main problems faced by MEPs in information retrieval are pressure of time and the overwhelming number and variety of information sources available. Makes recommendations for further research.
ISSN: 0143-5124
Appears in Collections:Journal articles (Information Management)

All items in OpenAIR are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved.

 

 
   Disclaimer | Freedom of Information | Privacy Statement |Copyright ©2012 Robert Gordon University, Garthdee House, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen, AB10 7QB, Scotland, UK: a Scottish charity, registration No. SC013781   
 
https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/handle/10059/132
openair.rgu.ac.uk
crawl=CC-MAIN-2015-18
18051
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:4W2ZLUHXVFNNRXYSEJX5577JHIRQ23KU
<urn:uuid:f0b5ad3d-fc7e-4dab-b16e-409066210f66>
2015-04-26T01:25:18Z
129.215.17.90
sha1:PS56DZRSJSMPCKVGYO6P6EOBO4SK5QCK
<urn:uuid:6f54b103-a227-4aa4-a26c-247a7eb6fee1>
https://openair.rgu.ac.uk/handle/10059/132
length
response
<urn:uuid:5b7499aa-ee5d-4d76-8383-d59a6d7ee42a>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2015-18
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for April 2015
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf