Understanding Information Seeking Behavior of Indonesian Postgraduate Students in Malaysian Universities: An Empirical Study

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Government and International Studies at University Utara Malaysia (UUM). He holds an M.Sc from the National University of Malaysia (UKM) and a bachelor degree from Syiah Kuala University. Prior to joining UUM, he has previously worked a couple of years with some private organizations in Indonesia, Malaysia and other international bodies in addition to research and teaching works with several public universities in Malaysia and Indonesia during last ten years. He has contributed to various international conferences in USA, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Egypt.Dr. Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani is currently a senior lecturer at the College of Law, Government and International Studies at University Utara Malaysia, where he has taught for 12 years and has supervised about 10 research projects. He holds an MBA degree from the University of Hull, UK and a PhD degree from Murdoch University, Australia. He has published in a wide range of international and Australian and New Zealand journals. In addition, he has spoken at conferences throughout the world on matters dealing mainly with international business management. Prior to joining University Utara Malaysia, he has previously worked in a number of public and private sector organizations in Malaysia and abroad. He is currently the Chairman of the Department of International Affairs of College of Law, Government and International Studies at University Utara Malaysia. This paper is part of our study on international postgraduate students' attitude in Malaysian higher institutions. It is a common occurrence that postgraduate students need a lot of information during their studies such as for completing their classwork-related assignments or merely for fulfilling their personal information needs. Their perceptions about the knowledge and how they construct it will affect their information-seeking behavior. Jurnal ILMU KOMUNIKASI 16The pre-sessional is a pre-requisite program for newcomers (first year) students or second year students who fail to prove their English proficiency as required by the university. The students are likely had to study English extensively. They need to improve their communicative proficiency for the purposes not only for participating effectively in classes, tutorials and seminars, but also for survival within the system, academically and socially.Study about pre-sessional students will be an interesting and important learning. In brief, the followings are the reasons why this user group of students is chosen: (1) pre-sessional students are one of the most frequently users of information who have uniqueness of information behaviors in terms of information-seeking and information uses; (2) presessional is an preliminary stage where students prepare themselves to improve study skills, to increase fluency in English and to familiarize themselves with the University environment as well as to campus life in general. They have a mix of enormous personal and academic-related information needs that describe also a uniqueness of their information behavior...

Perilaku Komunikasi Dosen dan Mahasiswa UB dan UUM dalam Mencari Informasi Sebelum dan Selama Pandemi Covid-19

“…Perilaku pencarian informasi adalah proses untuk merumuskan dan menerapkan strategi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan informasi individu (Lekic et al, 2020;Ruthven, 2010). Penelitian-penelitian sebelumnya telah mengkaji peran dari perpustakaan, misalnya pada penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Kwanya & Nyariki (2019) yang membahas tentang kebutuhan informasi dan pencarian informasi pada perpustakaan, sedangkan Esew et al (2014) membahas tentang peran perpustakaan dalam proses pencarian informasi dan keterampilan menggunakan sumber informasi dan Subhan & Ghani (2018) yang membahas tentang pola pencarian informasi untuk menyelesaikan tugas akademik. Studi-studi tersebut menyatakan bahwa perpustakaan dan internet sering digunakan sebagai pelengkap untuk mencari informasi.…”