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Turner, Deborah; Gorichanaz, Tim – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2016
The way that information users select information and news sources is impacted upon by the way that information providers package their material. This packaging has the potential to reinforce already-held beliefs and diminish social diversity. A group of scholars convened at iConference 2016 in a session for interactive engagement to discuss how…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Users (Information), Media Selection, Information Sources
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Georgas, Helen – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This study examines the information-seeking behavior of undergraduate students within a research context. Student searches were recorded while the participants used Google and a library (federated) search tool to find sources (one book, two articles, and one other source of their choosing) for a selected topic. The undergraduates in this study…
Descriptors: Search Strategies, Search Engines, Online Searching, Information Seeking