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[edit] 10/24/07, Kuhlthau 1999

Her longitudinal case study subject perceived more search tasks as complex when he was a novice, more tasks as routine when he was an expert 5 years later. Was less happy with the major work of complex, extensive searches as an expert than as a novice.

As a novice, he was concerned with "being right;" as an expert, he wanted to "add value" to client. He saw the latter as a correction to the former and to some extent a way to assuage anxiety: he knew he was always making new knowledge when he searched, rather than being right or wrong. Awareness that he had a new perspective on a topic was the spur for him to write a new report.

He of course had better discrimination about a topic when he was an expert than as a novice

[edit] 10/13/07, Case 2002

Notes Walter 1994 looked at children's info needs, but not at all by talking to children -- only to professionals who worked with them. Maslow's hierarchy comes up, but all in all this article seems not to contribute much to grounding the developmental question in observations of children. Children seen as "prone to receiving misinformation from peers and the media" (Case p 270)

[edit] 9-24-07 Tween info-seeking article

From birth young people learn through seeking info interpersonally; they posited tween years as a shift to other media, but weren't totally clear on what that looked like, and had no references.