One genre of academic literature in information science is the "information-seeking behavior" genre, often with an "of X" attached. I find this literature beyond useless for the most part, though some early work on underserved communities had its place, and I do know people making very sharp observations on changes in information seeking among researchers.
Despite my distaste for the genre, though, I have to love this preprint, if only for the utterly puerile amusement of seeing the PDF filename in my browser bar…
Oh, I was brought UP on information behavior/information seeking research - that's my favorite. How can you not love it? How can you not see the utility of a Kuhlthau article or Bates, for heavens sake?
Pfft. Take your information organization stuff and I'll keep my information seeking
Yeah, but so much of that crud is "The information behavior of left-handed baboon fanciers who play with Legos in their spare time," and you know, who cares?
As for Kuhlthau... I think I'll keep my opinion to myself. It's not exactly flattering.