New directions in children's and adolescents' information behavior research / edited by Jamshid Beheshti, Dania Bilal.

Modern research shows that children and adolescents encounter challenges and obstacles in searching for information, retrieving relevant results and have difficulty interpreting results within various information environments. However, a recent paradigm shift points to the changed information behavi...

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Other Authors: Beheshti, Jamshid, 1952-, Bilal, Dania, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
Series:Library and information science (New York, N.Y. : Online) ; v. 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Use of touch devices by toddlers and preschoolers : observations and findings from a single-case study / Naresh Kumar Agarwal
  • Depicting the intersection between information-seeking behavior and information literacy in the research process : a model / Valerie Nesset
  • Social capital and academic help seeking : late adolescents use of people as information sources / Audrey Laplante
  • Young girls' affective responses to access and use of information and communication technology (ICT) in information-poor societies / Dania Bilal, Valerie Jopeck
  • InfoMe : a field-design methodology for research on ethnic minority youth as information mediaries / Karen E. Fisher [and others]
  • Perspectives of rural librarians about the information behaviors of children with special needs in the southern and central Appalachian region : an exploratory study to develop user-centered services / Bharat Mehra
  • The social information grounds of Māori secondary school students / Spencer C. Lilley
  • A failure to connect : the elusive relationship between broadband access and children's information seeking in American academic research / Laura I. Spears, Marcia A. Mardis
  • Interface design : the impact of images and catalog organization on the information retrieval of children ages five to eight while subject browsing / Stacy Creel
  • Designing an intervention tool for students with students / Jamshid Beheshti [and others].