Analisis Analisis Pola Pencarian Informasi Model David Ellis terhadap Kualitas Informasi Mahasiswa Aktif Organisasi Fakultas Ekonomi Bisnis Islam UINSU

Information seeking behavior is a specific activity or project that carried out on an individual basis in order to find information required desired accomplish certain goal. David Ellis' model of searching the one became guiding principle this study. Starting (awalan), Chaining (menghubungkan), Browsing (menelusur), Differentiating (pemilahan), Monitoring (memantau), and Extracting are steps involved process collecting (menggali). The purpose study comprehend various methods for ellis have been conducted at Mahasiswa Aktif Organization Faculty Economics Business Islam UINSU Medan satisfy need course instruction. method was used using kualitatif with case alignment. results show some students come from internal campus organizations as many 13 (61.90%), Islamic economics majors highest percentage other first conceptualize they want trace (66.7%) , did searches before looking their bibliography reference source (76.2%), use browsing stage by than google, namely print media social same presentation (38.09%), compared asking directly experts development new journal publications stated chose ask (57.1%), continuing search explored depth get saturation points 16 respondents (76.2%) agreed, re-checking has traced medapa provide accurate data according needs informants closing access when found (47.6%).
 Keywords: Information-seeking behavior, Ellis Model