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When Does an Academic Information Need Stimulate a School-Inspired Information Want?
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Beautyman, Wendy; Shenton, Andrew K. – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
This paper explores the nature of school-inspired information wants. It considers how such wants arise and actions taken by youngsters to meet them. The methodology within the study reported was one of interpretivist ethnography, with data collected from two classes of 7- to 8-year-olds in an English primary school via a form of participant…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Participant Observation, Ethnography, Information Seeking