Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process ModelKuhlthau’s (2004) Information Search Process Model is also descriptive and wasdeveloped through sustained empirical studies of adolescent and collegestudents over two decades. In this model the word search is used in a broadersense than interacting with an information retrieval system (see next section).Kuhlthau describes information searching as a process of meaning constructionduring the lifecycle of completing an assigned research project in a learningcontext. The two-dimensional model (Figure 2.6 overleaf) depicts six researchstages along three personal constructs in a matrix: