Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage
Every year there are several online databases are subscribed by the library of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) which allows around 15,625 undergraduate (UG) students to access and utilize the resources. Reported from IIUM library, up to the year 2015, 10 out of 53 online databases h...
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| author | Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali Mohammad Daud, Nur Hidayah |
| author_facet | Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali Mohammad Daud, Nur Hidayah |
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| description | Every year there are several online databases are subscribed by the library of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) which allows around 15,625 undergraduate (UG) students to access and utilize the resources. Reported from IIUM library, up to the year 2015, 10 out of 53 online databases have been terminated from the subscription due to the decreasing and underutilized usage of online databases. This paper investigates the information seeking behavior (ISB) among those IIUM UG student who have access those subscribed resources and aims to discovers the relationship between elements of ISB among IIUM UG student and the impact of online database utilization. Data is collected through questionnaire which is constructed from the variables identified in this research objectives. 118 respondents from UG students have participated in the survey. The findings of this study will identify the gap between the ISB of IIUM UG students and subscribed online databases. It will help the librarian to encourage IIUM UG students to use online databases more in the future.
Keywords: Information Seeking Behavior, Information Behavior, Online Database, Model Development. |
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| spelling | iium-681342018-12-07T05:50:11Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/68134/ Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali Mohammad Daud, Nur Hidayah LB1044 Internet in Education LB2300 Higher Education T10.5 Communication of technical information T61 Technical education. Technical schools Every year there are several online databases are subscribed by the library of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) which allows around 15,625 undergraduate (UG) students to access and utilize the resources. Reported from IIUM library, up to the year 2015, 10 out of 53 online databases have been terminated from the subscription due to the decreasing and underutilized usage of online databases. This paper investigates the information seeking behavior (ISB) among those IIUM UG student who have access those subscribed resources and aims to discovers the relationship between elements of ISB among IIUM UG student and the impact of online database utilization. Data is collected through questionnaire which is constructed from the variables identified in this research objectives. 118 respondents from UG students have participated in the survey. The findings of this study will identify the gap between the ISB of IIUM UG students and subscribed online databases. It will help the librarian to encourage IIUM UG students to use online databases more in the future. Keywords: Information Seeking Behavior, Information Behavior, Online Database, Model Development. Institut Informatik Visual (IVI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018-11-13 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/68134/1/68134_Information%20Searching%20Behavior.pdf Zulkifli, Zahidah and Mat Surin, Ely Salwana and Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali and Mohammad Daud, Nur Hidayah (2018) Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage. In: 4th Visual Informatics International Seminar (VIIS 2018), 13th-15th Oct. 2018, Bangi, Selangor. https://www.viis18.com/ |
| spellingShingle | LB1044 Internet in Education LB2300 Higher Education T10.5 Communication of technical information T61 Technical education. Technical schools Zulkifli, Zahidah Mat Surin, Ely Salwana Salahuddin, Ashraf Ali Mohammad Daud, Nur Hidayah Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage |
| title | Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage |
| title_full | Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage |
| title_fullStr | Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage |
| title_full_unstemmed | Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage |
| title_short | Information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards Online database usage |
| title_sort | information searching behavior among undergraduate student towards online database usage |
| topic | LB1044 Internet in Education LB2300 Higher Education T10.5 Communication of technical information T61 Technical education. Technical schools |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/68134/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/68134/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/68134/1/68134_Information%20Searching%20Behavior.pdf |