Information Needs and Information Seeking Behavior of Students at Higher Educational Institutes: With Special Reference to CINEC Maritime Campus

This study investigates that information needs and information seeking behavior of students at higher educational institutes: with special reference to CINEC Maritime campus. Based on three objectives, the research was conducted. The main objective of this research is to identify the information needs of students in one of the leading higher educational institute in Sri Lanka. Other objectives are to study the information seeking behavior of students in various aspects, such as subjective needs, research needs other information needs and to study the user satisfaction and ICT application for seeking information. The key findings of the study indicate that 50% of students gather information for preparing their lecture notes. Not only that they collect information for updating their knowledge and having for discussions. CINEC Maritime campus library is the most frequently used place of the best access for information gathering by the students. 80% students expect their information in English medium. Using Information Technology (IT) is improved through students when they retrieve information for their information needs.