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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.

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* 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.