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The information seeking behavior of undergraduate students is a very important topic, which constantly occupies researchers. However, the academic libraries are intended to serve the students and teaching staff of institutions and support of teaching and research work carried out in them. Is a place where the knowledge is produced, managed and disseminated, contributing to unrestricted access to information and education. An information literacy, which is a part of all this interest, reinforces the comprehensive information seeking behavior of undergraduate students. This research was conducted in as a part of the dissertation of Kyriaki Ikoniadou and supervised by faculty member Emmanuel Garoufallou at the Department of Library Science and Information Systems of Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (ATEI of Thessaloniki). The main aim of the research was to investigate the information seeking behavior of undergraduate students of ATEI of Thessaloniki. The survey was carried out in May and June of 2015. During the research were identified some problems such as that the information literacy of students was incomplete, the educational community and the library of ATEI didn’t sufficiently inform students about this specific topic. In conclusion, therefore, it was realized that the students face problem with their searches, so that they cannot locate appreciable material. Moreover, in big percentage the students do not have sufficient briefing from the library. Finally, big number of students does not know any programs of information literacy.