Faculty Use of the World Wide Web: Modeling Information Seeking Behavior in a Digital Environment

摘要: There has been a long history of studying library users and their information seeking behaviors activities. Researchers developed models to better understand these activities users. Most were before the onset Internet. This research project studied faculty members' use on Internet at Angelo State University, Master's I institution. Using both quantitative qualitative methodology, differences found between tenured tenure-track members perceived value meet classroom needs. Similar also among in broad discipline areas humanities, social sciences, sciences. Tenure-track reported higher average per week than members. Based in-depth, semi-structured interviews with seven members, an Information Seeking Activities Model was describe by University. The model consisted four basic stages activities: "Gathering," "Validating," "Linking" sub-stage "Re-validating," "Monitoring." two parallel included model. These "Communicating" "Mentoring." compared behavioral Ellis. placed greater emphasis validating retrieved from Otherwise there no other substantive changes Ellis'