Changes in the Information Use Patterns of College Freshmen

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Prince, Monique
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • Based of Carol C. Kuhlthau's model of information seeking (1988), this qualitative study examines the first two months of transition from high school to college through a series of three interviews with two freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The resources students were accustomed to using in the various stages of what Kuhlthau termed "the information search process" in high school is compared to the resources they used during their first eight weeks of college. The point of the study was to determine how and why information seeking behaviors changed in the first few weeks of college, and how a student's adaptation to an academic library's resources might affect their feelings about research. Findings revealed that comfort using library resources and students' perceptions of the usefulness or applicability of library materials informed whether they adapted to or rejected them when presented with an information need.
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  • Barreau, Deborah
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • December 10, 2010

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