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“Malaysia is like this incredible library filled with books that caters to all tastes and views. To some, many books would be considered dangerous or misguided; to others, the same books would be seen as essential and inspirational. Being Malaysians is like the book ends that keep all these books on the shelf in this glorious library we call Malaysia: strong, united and full of potential. Take them away and it all falls apart - one by one, and we all lose.:
Vinod B. Sekhar
Chairman of the Sekhar Foundation and CEO of the Petra Group
”Different books make up a library: 27.5 million Malaysians constitute Malaysia”
New Strait Times, March 6, 2008, p. 15,17
b Chelton, Mary K. and Cool, Colleen (Eds.). (2004) Youth information-seeking behaviour: theories, models and issues. Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press.
Keywords:Information seeking behavior, youth
Summary and evaluation:This is a compilation of essays in a book. The editors have collected the essays based on research studies published in high ranking journals during the last decade or so. Emerging topics include: information seeking in school contexts, information behaviour in life-concern situations, information searching in libraries and Web environments. This book is helpful to undergraduate students and their teachers. But the essays are available free in universities’ paid online subscriptions. Read the rest of this entry »
Seiden, Peggy, Kris Szymborski and Barbara Norelli. Undergraduate students in the digital library:
Information seeking behavior in an heterogeneous environment. Choosing Our Futures,
ACRL 1997 Annual Conference Papers.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/nashville1997pap/seidenszymborski.cfm
(accessed January 27, 2008).
Summary:
The paper presents the study of information seeking among sixty undergraduates at Skidmore College. The study was designed to 1) assess students’ information seeking behavior in general; 2) elicit information about the search process; and 3) discern how students had acquired their knowledge of online searching and their level of expertise with online searching, computer applications and libraries. The results indicate that most undergraduates have relatively poor understanding of the information environment and that the “digital library” exaggerates and magnify these problems.
“Observe how users approach information, consider what it means, and design to allow them to achieve what they need.”“…I thought it important to highlight that one aspect of designing for users was to understand the ways in which they may approach an information task.” (Donna Maurer 2006)
Studying the information needs of users and the organization not only helps to direct library services and programs, but also to determine how to plan for marketing the resources of the library. Assessing our users’ needs has to be a priority and that the library should remain relevant to the objectives of the organization. Once user needs have been established, the library can begin to communicate back to users about the library’s response to these needs.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
* Chun, Wei Choo, Brian Detior and Don Turnbull (2000). Information seeking on the Web: an integrated model of browsing and searching. First Monday 5, no. 2 February). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issues5_2/choo/index.html (accessed February 8, 2008).
Keywords: Information seeking, web browsing, web searching, online searching
Summary and evaluation: The paper presents findings from a study of how knowledge workers us the web to seek external information as part of their daily work. Thirty-four participants mainly from the IT work force answered detailed questionnaire and were also interviewed individually in order to understand their information needs and information seeing preferences. A custom-developed WebTracker software application was installed on each of their work PCs and participant’s web-use activities were then recorded continuously during two-week periods. The study suggests that a behavioral framework that relates motivations and moves may be helpful in analyzing patterns of Web-based information seeking.This article is supported by a grant. I took it from an online source, a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet. The main author has an extensive background on information systems. This article is a good reference for studies/researches on web-based information searching, but the participants are not from the library set-up.
* Dresang, Eliza T. 2005 The Information-seeking behavior of youth in the Digital environment. The Free Library (September 22). http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The_information seeking_behavior_of_youth_in_the _digital_environment.-a0142058650 (accessed February 04, 2008)
Keywords: Children, digital resources, Information seeking behavior, digital environment
Summary and evaluation: The theory of Radical Change, which is based on the digital age principles of interactivity, and access, is suggested as a lens to reexamine existing research on youth information-seeking behavior in the digital environment. The analysis addresses commonalities between information-seeking behavior that is related to the handheld book with hypertextual qualities and to that of the digital materials, the social nature of information seeking, and emerging issues of access. Through this study a direction for youth information-seeking behavior research in the future proposes how brain research might shed light on behavioral observations. This article is a theoretical research and gives a caution and admonition for further studies on this topic. It suggests that the scientific applications will give more information about the brain in order to look at the behavior and get a firmer grasp on the mind.
* Todd, Ross J. 2006. From information to knowledge: Charting and measuring Changes in students’ knowledge of a curriculum topic. Information Research 11, no. 4 (July) paper 264. http://informationr.net/ir/11-4/paper264.html (Accessed February 4, 2008)
Keywords: Information seeking, students
Summary and evaluation: The study sought to design and test instruments for tracking how students build knowledge of a topic through the school library. In the context of information seeking and use, the project sought to understand more how students use found information as a result of information seeking. The method used to get the desired outcome for the study was a qualitative study that involved students from Grades 6-12. The context for data collection was an instructional programme framed by Kuthlau’s information search process: elicitation, representation and measurement of new knowledge and the interactions of cognitions, behaviors and feelings in the constructive process. The conclusion was that students came to know more about their topics, and perceived that they knew more as they progressed through the task. Ross Todd is a key scholar in this field of information searching studies. Thus, this article is a authority for reference. This article was taken from a free online journal.
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