The purpose of this study is to inv

The purpose of this study is to investigate information-seeking behaviours among School of Computing
undergraduate students within the context of searching information for university tasks. As university
students, having the skills to gather information, both from the library and the Internet will help them to
complete university tasks such as course assignments and project papers. With the advent of information
technology, gathering information is so much faster and easier. It is therefore imperative that undergraduates
are equipped with some information-seeking skills. A survey method was used to collect data for this study.
A questionnaire was randomly distributed to 170 undergraduate students at School of Computing, Universiti
Utara Malaysia in Malaysia. The overall response rate was 100%. The collected data was analysed by using
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) for Windows version 19.0. The findings show that academic
information is the most needed information for completing university tasks and Google search engine is the
most frequently used search engine by the students when searching academic information. Therefore, this
study concludes that most of the students prefer to use search engines to search academic information.