157 25 archive 4 disk0/00/00/01/57 2007-09-11 07:56:51 2008-06-21 17:09:03 2007-09-28 06:41:10 conference_item 154 show Syahranah A. Raqi syahranah.raqi@adm.monash.edu.my Zainab A.N. zainab@um.edu.my Monash University Malaysia University of Malaya, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, MLIS Programme pub Z none paper Information seeking behaviour, Shelf browsing, Browsing among children, Children’s libraries. Edited by Abrizah Abdullah et al. Kuala Lumpur: Library and Information Science Unit, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya, 2007. ISBN:9789834349103 This paper described (a) the investigation undertaken to trace the methods used by children in selecting books to borrow or browse in two children’s public library, and (b) the information seeking patterns adopted by the selected children. The sample comprised 43 children who used the Bayan Budiman Children’s Library, Petaling Jaya and the Kuala Lumpur Children’s Llibrary. The children were randomly chosen, aged between 7 and 12 and comprised those who entered the library with the observed behaviour of selecting books to borrow or browse. Two methods were used to collect data; (a) observing the children as they enter the library to select books to browse or borrow for fifteen to twenty minutes and (b) interviewing those selected with a semi structure questionnaire. Belkin’s information search strategy (ISS) dimensions was used to transcribe children’s browsing and selecting behaviour and Hayden’s behaviour mapping model was used to map the children’s total choosing process. The findings indicated that (a) shelf browsing was the most popular method of choosing a book combined with various strategies such as looking for a book by an author or series, finding a book by subjects, visually or physically scanning and recognizing the physical composition of the book; (b) children based their selection on the storyline, illustrations, cover designs and typography of the books; and (c) the searching behaviour is likely to be non-linear in nature. The type of problems children faced include understanding the standard subject headings and mapping these to their needs, effectively verbalizing their needs due to their limited vocabulary and obtaining the librarian’s advice to locate revision books they need. Children used visual cues rather from textual information when searching for books, inferring that children libraries need to support adequate and visually stimulating sources to make book searching fun and fruitful. 2007-06-26 published Library & Information Science Unit, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur 145-157 Building An Information Society For All: Proceedings of the International Conference on Libraries, Information and Society, ICOLIS 2007 Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. ISBN9789834349103 26-27 June 2007 conference TRUE 978-983-43491-0-3 Belkin, N.J.Marchetti, P.G. and Cool, C. 1993. BRAQUE: design of an interface to support user interaction in information retrieval. Information Processing & Management, Vol.29, no.3: 325-334. Broch, Elena. 2000. Children’s search engines from an information search process perspective. School Library Media Research 3. Available at: http://www.ala/aaslpubsnajournals/slmrb/slmconens/volume32000/childrens.htm Brown, Anita. 2004. Reference services for children: information needs and wants in the public library. The Australian Library Journal, Aug: 261-274. Bruner, J.S. 1966. The process of education. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. Chang, S. 1995. Towards a multidimensional framework for understanding browsing. Ph.D thesis – State University, New Jersey. Cooper, Linda Z. 2002. A case sudy of information seeking behaviour in 7-year old in a semistructured situation. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Vol.53, no. 11: 904-922. De Angelo, Nancy; Karyl Reents and Connie Zomboracz. 1997. Improving reading achievement through the use of parental involvement and paired reading. M.A. Dissertation – Saint Xavier University, Chicago. Dervin, B. 1983. An overview of sense-making: concepts, methods and results to date. Annual Meeting of the International Communications Association, May, Texas. Eisenberg, Michael. 2001. A Big6 ™ Skills; Overview. Available at, http://www.big6.com/showarticle.php?id=16. Eisenberg, Michael and Borkowitz, Robert E. 1990. Information problem-solving: the Big Six Skills approach to library and information skills instruction. Norwood, NJ.: Ablex Publishing. Everhart , Nancy and Hatcher, April M. 2005. How relevant are standardized subject headings to school curricula? Knowledge Quest, Vol.33, no.4: 17-39. Fogget, Tracy. 2003. Information literacy at the primary school level, The Australian Library Journal, Feb: 55-62. Hayden, K. Alix. 2001. Information seeking models. Available at, http://www.ucalgary. ca/~hayden/ seeking.html. Hyman, R. 1972. Access to library collections: an enquiry into the validity of the direct shelf approach, with special reference to browsing. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press. Krikelas, James. 1983. Information seeking behaviour: paterns and concepts. Drexel Library Quarterly, Vol.19, no.2: 5-20. Kuhlthau, Carol. 1986. Stages in child and adolescent development and implications for library instructional programs. In: Information seeking: basing services on user’s behaviour. Edited by J.Varlejs. North Carolina: McFarland. Kuhlthau, Carol. 1992. Seeking meaning: a process approach to library and information services. Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Publishing. Kuhlthau, Carol. 1999. Accommodating the user’s information search process: challenges for information retrieval system designers. Bulletin of the American for Information Science, Vol.25, no.3: 12-16. Lamb, Annette. 2003. Information inquiry for teachers. Available at, http://eduscapes.com /info/isp.html. Machet, M.P. 2002. Young people’s reading interests in South Africa, Mousaion, Vol.20, no. 1: 44-72. Marchionini, G. 1985. Information seeking in electronic environment. Cambridge: University of Cambrigde University Press. Piaget, J. and Indelder, B. 1969.The psychology of the child. New York: Basic Books. Shenton, A.K. and Dixon, P. 2003. Youngsters’ use of other people as an information-seeking method. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 35 (4): 219-233 Shenton, Andrew K. 2004. The application of information seeking concepts to the behaviour of young people. Education Libraries Journal, Vol.47, no.3: 5-10. Shenton, Andew K. and Dixon, P. 2004a. Issues arising from youngsters information seeking behaviour. Library & Information Science Research, Vol.26: 177-200. Walter, Virginia A. 2003. Public library service to children and teens: a research agenda. Library Trends, Vol.51, no.4: 571-589. Wicks, Jonathan. 1995. Patterns of reading among teenage boys: the reading habits and book preferences of 13-15 year old boys. New Library World, Vol.96,no.1122: 10-16. Wilson, T. D. 1981. On user studies and information needs. Journal of Librarianship, Vol.37, no.1: 3-15.