Ascertain the information seeking behavior of Computer Science students

Postgraduate students of computer science have received little empirical attention from researchers in the field of Library Information Science; their information seeking behaviors often resembles those of either other faculties or undergraduates. With higher level of education and information technology background, postgraduate students of computer science ought to have a different information seeking behavior. Therefore it is interesting to explore their information seeking behaviors and to investigate to what extent they might constitute a unique user group. The objective of this research is to explore and analyze computer science postgraduate student’s information seeking behaviors. A Survey was conducted at Faculty of Science Computer and Information Technology, University of Malaya. The sample consists of 140 postgraduate students. The quantitative data were analyzed using the statistical program SPSS. The results provide an insight into how computer sciences postgraduate students seek for information. With their IT skills and experience in seeking information, they can find a lot of information but they have problem with information overload and how to evaluate the information that they find.