Youth information-seeking behavior : theories, models, and issues / edited by Mary K. Chelton and Colleen Cool.

Contains essays in which the authors explore the ways in which children and young adults seek, process, and use information, especially from electronic resources, focusing on young people who have developed beyond the picture book stage.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chelton, Mary K., Cool, Colleen, 1952-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Information seeking behaviors of children : using electronic information services during the early years : 1980-90 / Colleen Cool
  • Student learning in the library : what Library Power librarians say / Carol Collier Kuhlthau
  • Learning and the digital library / Delia Neuman
  • Do scribes learn? : copying and information use / Joy H. McGregor and Denise C. Streitenberger
  • Composing Boolean search statements : self-confidence, concept analysis, search logic, and errors / Diane Nahl and Violet H. Harada
  • If you don't have it, you can't find it : a close look at students' perceptions of using technology / Jinx Stapleton Watson
  • Children's information choices for inclusion in a hypothetical, child-constructed library / Linda Z. Cooper
  • Children's information seeking at school : findings from a qualitative study / Melissa Gross
  • Domain knowledge and children's search behavior / Sandra G. Hirsh
  • Research on children's information seeking on the Web / Dania Bilal
  • Information seeking on the Web by elementary school students / Andrew Large
  • Adolescent decision-making for careers : an exploration of information behavior / Heidi Julien
  • Adolescents' information seeking and utilization in relation to drugs / Ross J Todd and Susan Edwards
  • Future direction and bibliography / Mary K. Chelton.