Beth St. Jean is associate professor in the College of Information Studies, associate director of the Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC), and an affiliate faculty member of the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a PhD in information and a Master's degree in information (library & information services specialization) from the University of Michigan School of Information.

Ursula Gorham is senior lecturer in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (the iSchool). She currently serves as the director of the Master of Library and Information Science Program in the iSchool. She is admitted to practice law in Maryland and previously served as a law clerk in Maryland appellate and federal bankruptcy courts.

Elizabeth (Beth) Bonsignore is an assistant research scientist at the College of Information Studies (the iSchool) and the University of Maryland's (UMD) Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). As the director of KidsTeam, an intergenerational, participatory design team at Maryland's iSchool, her research efforts involve codesign partnerships and meaningful play with youth. She has also served as an associate chair for the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM's) Computer-Human Interaction (CHI), CHI-PLAY, and Interaction Design and Children (IDC) conferences since 2016.

Lists of Figures and Tables

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction to Information Behavior

Chapter 2: Fundamental Concepts

Chapter 3: Historical Development of the Field

Chapter 4: Related Concepts

Chapter 5: Information Literacy

Chapter 6: Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion

Chapter 7: Finding, Reading, and Critiquing Information Behavior Studies

Chapter 8: Research Methods

Chapter 9: Assessing User Information-Related Preferences and Information Needs

Chapter 10: Investigating User Information Behavior

Chapter 11: Connecting Information Behavior and Human Computer Interaction: User Experience, Accessibility, and Usability

Chapter 12: Information Behavior Models and Theories

Chapter 13: Consumer Health Information Behavior and Health Justice

Chapter 14: Youth Information Behavior

Chapter 15: Legal Information Behavior and Access to Justice

Chapter 16: Information Behavior in Libraries

Chapter 17: The Information-Related Professions: The Underlying Thread of Information Behavior

Acronyms

Glossary

About the Authors