According to Wilson (1999, 2000), information seeking behavior includes "those
activities a person may engage in when identifying their own needs for information,
searching for such information in any way, and using or transferring that information."[5]
[6] Kakai, et al., (2004) have defined information-seeking behavior as an individual's way
and manner of gathering and sourcing for information for personal use, knowledge
updating, and development.[4] Information-seeking behavior of students, researchers, and
professors has been the focus of enquiry for decades. Initially, however, user studies were
conducted primarily to evaluate library collections