Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin

This paper fills the gap in understanding the Information Seeking Behaviour (ISB) among the postgraduate students in Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia. Specifically, the aims of this paper are to determine the information needs, to identify the main information sourc...

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Main Authors:	Che Ahmat, Nur Hidayah, Wan Kamarudin, Wan Nor Bayah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	Electronic commerce Library Science. Information Science
Online Access:	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20633/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20633/1/AJ_NUR%20HIDAYAH%20CHE%20AHMAT%20JTHCA%20B%2014.pdf

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spelling	uitm-206332018-07-17T03:33:33Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20633/ Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin Che Ahmat, Nur Hidayah Wan Kamarudin, Wan Nor Bayah Electronic commerce Library Science. Information Science This paper fills the gap in understanding the Information Seeking Behaviour (ISB) among the postgraduate students in Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia. Specifically, the aims of this paper are to determine the information needs, to identify the main information source in ISB, and to investigate the relationship between ISB and information needs satisfaction. By using self-administered questionnaire adapted from previous researchers, some of the issues of interest were obtained. Result revealed that ISB of postgraduate students were motivated by a wide variety of information needs including the need to fulfil research requirements. Also, internet was found as the main formal source while conversation with friends/colleagues was the main informal source used in seeking and obtaining information needed. It is worth mentioning that ISB was positively correlated with information needs satisfaction. This study could be considered as a starting point for further studies and for comparisons across faculties and disciplines in the University particularly in social sciences disciplines pertaining to ISB of the postgraduate students. 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20633/1/AJ_NUR%20HIDAYAH%20CHE%20AHMAT%20JTHCA%20B%2014.pdf Che Ahmat, Nur Hidayah and Wan Kamarudin, Wan Nor Bayah (2014) Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin. Journal of Tourism, Hospitality & Culinary Arts (JTHCA), 6 (2). ISSN 1985-8914
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spellingShingle	Electronic commerce Library Science. Information Science Che Ahmat, Nur Hidayah Wan Kamarudin, Wan Nor Bayah Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin
description	This paper fills the gap in understanding the Information Seeking Behaviour (ISB) among the postgraduate students in Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia. Specifically, the aims of this paper are to determine the information needs, to identify the main information source in ISB, and to investigate the relationship between ISB and information needs satisfaction. By using self-administered questionnaire adapted from previous researchers, some of the issues of interest were obtained. Result revealed that ISB of postgraduate students were motivated by a wide variety of information needs including the need to fulfil research requirements. Also, internet was found as the main formal source while conversation with friends/colleagues was the main informal source used in seeking and obtaining information needed. It is worth mentioning that ISB was positively correlated with information needs satisfaction. This study could be considered as a starting point for further studies and for comparisons across faculties and disciplines in the University particularly in social sciences disciplines pertaining to ISB of the postgraduate students.
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author	Che Ahmat, Nur Hidayah Wan Kamarudin, Wan Nor Bayah
author_facet	Che Ahmat, Nur Hidayah Wan Kamarudin, Wan Nor Bayah
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title	Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin
title_short	Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin
title_full	Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin
title_fullStr	Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin
title_full_unstemmed	Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin
title_sort	information seeking behaviour (isb) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in universiti teknologi mara, malaysia / nur hidayah che ahmat and wan nor bayah wan kamarudin
publishDate	2014
url	http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20633/ http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/20633/1/AJ_NUR%20HIDAYAH%20CHE%20AHMAT%20JTHCA%20B%2014.pdf
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Information seeking behaviour (ISB) and information needs satisfaction among postgraduate students in Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia / Nur Hidayah Che Ahmat and Wan Nor Bayah Wan Kamarudin

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