Students’ Information Seeking Behaviour at the Library of Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan (STIKes) William Booth Surabaya

M. Alfian, Satrio Prasojo, Dessy Harisanty

2018

Abstract

Diverse information needs require students to seek information by themselves. The purpose of this study is to know how library users find the source of information they need and the obstacles they encounter in making the appropriate information discovery. This research is based on the formula stated by Ellis revolving around eight stages of information discovery behaviour: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, extracting, verifying, ending. This study applied descriptive quantitative method by distributing questionnaires to 100 respondents. The samples were taken using accidental sampling on STIKes William Booth students. The results of this study show that students, in conducting a search, first students prepare a description of the information they need, following that, chaining with keywords is done. After those steps are done, the students then browse and take 1-5 sources of information. To determine the quality of information they select by looking at the author’s background and developments. All information that has been selected will be re-checked again in case there are any incorrect information. The information seeking process ends when the findings can fulfill the needs of the users. The obstacles that can be found in the students’ information seeking behaviour is the laziness of students, foreign languages ability, limited time to visit the library, and less strategic locations.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alfian M., Prasojo S. and Harisanty D. (2018). Students’ Information Seeking Behaviour at the Library of Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan (STIKes) William Booth Surabaya. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Record and Library: Local Knowledge, Past, Present, and Future - Volume 1: ICRL; ISBN 978-989-758-712-2, SciTePress, pages 181-187. DOI: 10.5220/0008667700002300

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icrl18,
author={M. Alfian and Satrio Prasojo and Dessy Harisanty},
title={Students’ Information Seeking Behaviour at the Library of Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan (STIKes) William Booth Surabaya},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Record and Library: Local Knowledge, Past, Present, and Future - Volume 1: ICRL},
year={2018},
pages={181-187},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008667700002300},
isbn={978-989-758-712-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Record and Library: Local Knowledge, Past, Present, and Future - Volume 1: ICRL
TI - Students’ Information Seeking Behaviour at the Library of Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan (STIKes) William Booth Surabaya
SN - 978-989-758-712-2
AU - Alfian M.
AU - Prasojo S.
AU - Harisanty D.
PY - 2018
SP - 181
EP - 187
DO - 10.5220/0008667700002300
PB - SciTePress