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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.