undergraduates students

1. INTRODUCTION


The aim of this report is a study of undergraduate students in context of their information needs, information seeking, information searching and information uses. This report will be based on four major studies by Dunn, Zhang, Valentine and Callison. It will consist of following parts:
· Introduction
· Definition of target group
· Description of target group
· Description of information behaviors
· Key practice implications
· Conclusion
· Bibliography




































2.DEFINITION OF TARGET GROUP

2.1.Definition of terms


Undergraduates are university or college students who have yet to complete their first Bachelor degree (Oxford Dictionary, 1996:1997).

Information is described by Dervin &Nilan “as something constructed by human beings”(1986:16) or “all knowledge, ideas, facts, data, and imaginative works of mind which are communicated, or to be co...