Abstract:
This paper discusses the information seeking behaviour of the agriculture
undergraduates in a Sri Lankan university. It established that the
undergraduates often use the search engines, Wikipedia, and their own
classmates than the other information resources; they use more self-taught
methods than standard methods to evaluate the resources and seek help from
the classmates in using the information resources. Findings further proved that
their uses of various productivity tools are very low and the information-related
research tasks are difficult for the majority. The paper concludes that these are
the effects of inadequate information literacy (IL) training they receive and the
study strongly recommends offering appropriate, context specific IL
programmes, to enhance their information resource usage and research skills.
