Semarang, September 16, 2020 Diponegoro University Library Science Study Program held its third Guest Lecturer event through Zoom and Live Youtube. This webinar which is themed “Information Behavior: Theory and Practice in the Information Age” hosted by Rahmi, Ph.D. lecturer of Library Science University of Indonesia.
This webinar was moderated by Ika Krismayani, S.IP., M.IP. as a lecturer in Library Science, Diponegoro University. The allocation of time in the webinar is 60 minutes for material and 30 minutes for Q&A session. The webinar participants consisted of students in semester 7 of Diponegoro University Library and were also attended by educators from various universities.
In the webinar, Ms. Rahmi explained about human behavior towards information in theory and practice. The topic is still happening among researchers. This topic is also based on the theories put forward by Wilson and Elis and reinforced by data on research with the topic of information seeking behavior.
According to her, the current research trend is people-oriented studies where the field of library science is reviewed based on human behavior. Human information behaviour is the most central topic in information science. There are four concepts in information behavior, namely information sources, information channels, active information search, and passive information search. It also said that since 2005 there have been 75 theories and models in information search, of which only 5 are often used in Indonesia. There are four basic categories of theory and model, namely descriptive, process, cognitive, and complex. Based on Ms. Rahmi’s speech on individual behavior there are 5 different levels.
After the material session, the webinar was followed by a question and answer session between the presenter and the participant by asking a question through the chat box by activating the raise hand feature and turning on the camera to ask directly guided by the moderator. Participants are very enthusiastic in question and answer sessions, not only participants who go through Zoom who ask but some participants who ask through Live Youtube. The event concluded with a word from Mr. Heriyanto as the person in charge of guest lecturer activities for 3 weeks, as well as closing a series of Guest Lecturer events at this time.
