Mobile information behavior is a significant access point for the librarians in handling information
activities through the mobile devices and aligning it with the concept of human information
behavior. growing use of mobile devices increases the number of applications that have
been developed to support mobile social information interaction between mobile users (Church,
Cousin & Oliver, 2012). Example include applications than contain information about web page
ranks and application of sharing search result for information seekers (Kotani, Nakamura &
Tanaka, 2011), or travel information among proximal users (Yang, Hwang & Shih, 2012). For
instance, Teevan, Morris and Azenkot (2014) designed an application with a collaborative mode
activated by changing the phone’s orientation. Collectively, these applications presume that
information sharing takes place in real time with co-located others. According to the report, one
out of every three smartphone users search for a business’s contact information (