Abstract:
Information sourcing is the system of searching through sources by an information seeker so as to retrieve necessary information for decision making. The purpose of the study is to investigate the information sourcing methods students in colleges of education in Delta State use while searching for information. To achieve the purpose of the study, five objectives were stated to guide to the research. The population of the study consists of students from three colleges of education in Delta State. A multi stage sampling technique was employed to draw the sample for this study. This gives a sample size of 540 students. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire and data collected were analyzed using percentage. . The findings indicate that students seek for information to write assignments, projects, to prepare for examination etc. They search for these information in the library by browsing through the shelves and also use the library catalogue. In searching through search engines, they hardly use the Boolean methods, wildcard and truncation technique, instead they type full phrase on the search engines. Thus, the study recommends strategized methods of teaching user education in both lectures and libraries and installing high powered generating set and databases that can support teaching learning and research
