Exploring the lived information-seeking experiences of mature students

Clark, Sarah

doi:10.11645/8.1.1846

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“…The librarians find ways to guide students, facilitating a better understanding of the emotions of library users during the ISP. This guidance is vital for those novice students who suffer from search anxiety and confusion (Clark, 2014). Dyckman (2005) examined the feelings of graduate students when they were working on their dissertations.…”

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Beyond the search process: Exploring the affective stages in developing a research proposal

Aladem

Rehman²

2022

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This research aims to investigate the affective stages developed in the Information Search Process (ISP) model developed by Carol Kuhlthau. The purpose of this study was to understand how feelings relate to the six stages of conducting a research proposal. Feelings experienced by information seekers include optimism, clarity, confidence and satisfaction or uncertainty, confusion, frustration, and disappointment. This work specifies how feelings affect the various phases of the research process. A qualitative methodology was used for this study. Twenty Information Studies (IS) graduate students from the Social Science department at Kuwait University, who had taken the Research Methods course, were selected for the study using purposive sampling. Face-to-face interviews were conducted in order to collect feelings, perceptions, and views of the participants. Data collected were analysed using the narrative approach of the interviews. The results showed that the feelings of students changed during the different stages of Kuhlthau’s ISP model. The study indicates significant implications for research on information behaviour. It may help students and teachers to be aware of the affective role at different stages of their research proposal writing. It also assesses the possible contribution of intermediaries in helping students during the research writing process.

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Beyond the search process: Exploring the affective stages in developing a research proposal

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Rehman²

2022

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“…The characterizations of IE have also been affected by the use of varying terminology. In addition to ‘information experience’, researchers have employed related terms such as ‘experiencing information’ (Godbold, 2014) and ‘information-seeking experience’ (Clark, 2014).…”

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Elaborating the sensory and cognitive-affective aspects of information experience

Savolainen

2019

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Drawing on pragmatist ideas proposed by John Dewey, the study elaborates the picture of information experience by examining how researchers have characterized the ways in which people receive, acquire and interpret sensory and cognitive-affective information. To this end, a conceptual analysis was conducted by concentrating on 43 studies pertinent to the topic. The findings indicate that so far, the construct of information experience has remained quite vague. This is mainly due to that experience - the fundamental constituent of information experience – has not been sufficiently reflected in the context of informational phenomena. Information experience studies have mainly contributed to information behaviour research by describing how people receive and acquire sensory information, while the picture of experiencing cognitive-affective information has remained quite vague. There are also gaps in studies examining how sensory and cognitive-affective information are interpreted as an integral part of information experience. The study also identifies topics of further research dealing with the elaboration of the construct of information experience.

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A methodological framework for studying visual information practices

Lischer-Katz¹

2022

Library & Information Science Research

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Exploring the lived information-seeking experiences of mature students

Cited by 4 publications

References 42 publications

Beyond the search process: Exploring the affective stages in developing a research proposal

Beyond the search process: Exploring the affective stages in developing a research proposal

Elaborating the sensory and cognitive-affective aspects of information experience

A methodological framework for studying visual information practices

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