This paper investigates the various barriers that university students' encounter in efforts to seek information for academic purposes. It focuses on skills deployed by these students to overcome this lack. University students from four different fields of study are sampled to address their research-information seeking processes and needs in their daily academic life. The needs are matched to strategies applied that suggest coping mechanisms of fulfilling the demands of the course taken. This research analyses these barriers and coping mechanisms as a means of enhancing students' research-information seeking skills. Findings show that the main barrier towards information seeking processes among university students is their inability to seek and evaluate information. They also struggle to locate information needed for academic purposes. The students also claim that they have difficulty in finding online information due to limited network and Internet access. Students need to have access to strong Internet bandwidths to obtain required information, such as the web resources and online databases. This access provided by the library plays an important role in helping them meet their information needs. It is recommended that the library and the librarians should plan an appropriate course of action such as information skill training to overcome the identified barriers by enhancing current services and facilities which guide students to improve their information seeking processes for academic purposes.

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Documentaries are a unique form of filmmaking. It allows for the comman man/woman to address large, important issues that is able to shake society. It involves a small portion of power as it addresses a wide range of subject matters such as history, anthropology, trends, as well as, social and political constructs, ethical issues and moral responsibilities. However, even though documentaries have evolved continuously, its approaches and methods remain ambiguous, and its parameters keep enlarging and changing. As students starting out to understand the process of documentary filmmaking, many struggle in terms of identifying appropriate content suited for that of a documentary. Students are unable to develop appropriate strategies towards identifying the type of stories to tell. This research seeks out explore an idea and story identification technique, specifically through the use of strategic mapping, as a means of helping students to understand the layers required in planning and constructing a documentary story. Action research is applied to guide and observe students’ responses through a number of mapping techniques that allows for the identification of the core focus/theme of the documentary. The research discovers that through a repetitive process, students’ are able to develop, change and extend their first impression responses as they begin to understand the process of documentary story and content identification.

Flooding is a constant concern to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Malaysia, particularly in the state of Kelantan. This study focused on the issue of floods triggered by Sungai Golok from a hydraulics viewpoint. The goal of this study was to develop a flood mapping along Sungai Golok in Rantau Panjang town that specifically aimed at reducing floods and impacts on SDGs. The dry and wet areas on the flood mapping were simulated using Average Recurrence Interval (ARI) for a staggered period of 10 years, 50 years, and 100 years. An unsteady flow analysis was performed with the aid of the Hydrological Engineering Centre -River Analysis System (HEC-RAS). In addition to that, this study deployed the QGIS tool to develop and re-project an appropriate topographical profile of the Rantau Panjang region. It was determined that the value of 0.035 for the Manning's was acceptable because all data for the initial calibration satisfies the condition of relative percentage difference RPD ≤ 25%. The HEC-RAS concluding outcome was calibrated and validated using statistical testing. The extent of the floods on 19 February 2016, and after 10 years later was found to be generally comparable in magnitude. After a period of 50 years, an increase in the discharge to 119 m 3 /s caused the flood's magnitude to expand at a faster rate. With a peak flow of 140 m 3 /s after a period of 100 years, it proved that the whole area will be inundated in floods. Highlighting these SDGs' aim at achieving healthier lives and well-being of the inhabitants, the flood mapping is essential in the flood risk area to forecast the varying patterns of floods, which in turn used to ascertain the level of flooding in Rantau Panjang and subsequently reduce the impacts.

Digital literacy is essential in 21st learning as technology has been embedded in the school curriculum. However, studies found that students still lack digital literacy skills in managing their education purposes, especially during Pandemic Covid 19. Therefore, this paper aims to examine the influence of digital literacy on student learning engagement. Survey questionnaires have been distributed among secondary school students in Malaysia. Findings show that students have good digital literacy, and factors such as socio-cultural is the highest score, followed by learning environment and individual factor. Keywords: Digital Literacy, Learning, Engagement, Student eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by E-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC  BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer-review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behavior Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioral Researchers on Asians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behavior Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7iSI10%20(Special%20Issue).4114