Information Seeking Behavior of College Students During the Pandemic Covid-19: Case Study at Bukit Parung Asri Housing

Abstract

. The emergence of the global Covid-19 pandemic has led to changes in learning activities that were initially carried out face-to-face to being completely at home, of course affecting changes in college students' information-seeking behavior, who can usually use printed information sources to become all digital. For this reason, this research was conducted to be able to find out how the information-seeking behavior of college students at Bukit Parung Asri Housing in fulfilling the need for lecture information during the pandemic. The method used in this research is a qualitative method with data collection techniques through interviews and literature studies. Based on the results of the study, it can be concluded that college students who live in Bukit Parung Asri Housing tend to be more able to implement electronic collections rather than printed ones and have information-seeking behavior that is by David Ellis' search behavior model theory. During the search process, there were obstacles to the internet network and also information sources that had limited access.