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Dissertation Information for Linda Cooper

NAME:
- Linda Cooper

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Rutgers University (USA) (2000)

ADVISORS:
- Nicholas Belkin

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Lea Stewart
- Kay Ellen Vandergrift
- Eviatar Zerubavel

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: The socialization of information behavior: A study of the move from personal typification towards intersubjectivity in children's understanding of library information

Abstract: A study was conducted designed to examine the manner in which a discreet population, young children, typify library information and how these typifications change over a period of five years. The hypothesis here is that with increased experience children will change their typifications from personal towards intersubjective with the thought community of the library in order to effectively communicate and satisfy their information needs in the library milieu. While children experience both developmental changes and social growth during these early years, the move toward intersubjectivity with the library is predicated on the necessity to conform to social dictates in order to communicate. Children's personal typifications may be entertained by their community when they are quite young and under the care of a primary caretaker, however, when they enter a larger social situation, such as school, children are expected to adapt the typifications and behaviors of the larger community. Since these are social pressures, the child's response will be a social response rather than one that is developmentally motivated.

Children who participated in this study appear to move towards intersubjectivity with the thought community of the library over a period of five years. This change in typification includes ideas about what information is important to include in a library, how information terms are associated with each other in a library, how information categories in a library are labeled, and the manner in which children see information categories in the library as related to each other. Results are discussed as they pertain to theoretic issues of personal typification v. cultural intersubjectivity in the library as well as more pragmatic matters of system presentation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

MPACT Scores for Linda Cooper

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:11:08

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