3.2 Information Seeking Behaviour
undoubtedly, the accessibility of electronic information has steadily brought major changes to human information behaviour in all walks of life. Marchionini10 in his book explains the information seeking behaviour and changing environment. Bates11 made a survey on decades of research on information needs and information-seeking behaviour. The internet is considered as a potentially excellent tool for teaching and learning. The World Wide Web is a tool for partial information gathering and learning for students. Fidel et al.12 analyse web searching behaviour of students. Nicholas et al.13 studied on the impact of the Internet on information seeking in the British Media and the focus was largely on the newspapers. Joinson and Banyard 14 made two studies on information seeking behaviour on the Internet. Both investigated information seeking on the World Wide Web. It is tentatively argued that there is a tendency for people to access information on internet.