Patterns of Benefiting of Smartphones by Students of Library and Information Science sat Sohag University: A Field Study

This study is part of the strengthening of scientific studies and the use of smartphone technologies in the educational process of students in the Department of Libraries at the University of Sohag
In the context of the previous , it can be said that the study as a whole seeks to achieve a key objective: Learn about the patterns of use of smartphones by students in the Department of Libraries and Information at the University of Sohag. This main objective has a number of sub-goals, which I list as follows:
1- Identification of smartphone types and applications.
2- To learn about how students can benefit from smartphones in libraries.
3- The extent to which students are interested in using smartphones for educational purposes.
4- The motives and justifications that drive students to rely on smartphones.
5- Obstacles to their use of smartphones.
This was done after a thorough study of the intellectual production available, the use of the field curriculum in collecting data,. The study concluded with the most important results that students rely mainly on smartphones in their daily lives, whether in communication or in transmitting important information about the study. This is due to its flexible use, in addition to the fact that it is easy to campaign and prefer most students to make an application for the library on the site, and to provide workshops to enable students to achieve the maximum benefit from smartphones.