Information Search Process: A Summary of Research and Implications for School Library Media Programs.

Kuhlthau, Carol C.

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ERIC Number: EJ402726

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Publication Date: 1989

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Information Search Process: A Summary of Research and Implications for School Library Media Programs.

Kuhlthau, Carol C.

School Library Media Quarterly, v18 n1 p19-25 Fall 1989

Summarizes a series of five studies on students' perspectives of information seeking in response to a research assignment. Feelings, thoughts, and actions commonly experienced in the information search process are described in six stages. Implications of the findings for further research and their impact on school library media programs are discussed. (20 references) (Author/CLB)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Seeking, Learning Resources Centers, Library Instruction, Models, Questionnaires, Research Needs, School Libraries, Surveys, Theory Practice Relationship, Users (Information)

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires

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Language: English

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