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035 $a(OCoLC)49883211
035 $a(Sirsi) 01-AAO-7049
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050 4 $aZA3075$b.C36 2002
100 1 $aCase, Donald Owen.
245 10 $aLooking for information :$ba survey of research on information seeking, needs, and behavior /$cDonald O. Case.
260 $aAmsterdam ;$aNew York :$bAcademic Press, c2002.
300 $axvi, 350 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aLibrary and information science
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 305-334) and index.
505 0 $aInformation Behavior: An Introduction -- Emphasizing People Rather Than Systems -- Ten Myths about Information and Information Seeking -- When, Why, and Where Information Behavior Has Been Studied -- The Contexts in Which Information Behavior Is Investigated -- The Scope of "Information Behavior" -- How This Book Is Organized, and How to Use It -- Five Information Seeking Scenarios -- Buying Products -- Finding Information in a Library -- Betting on Race Horses -- Finding the Law -- "I Want to Know More about Cancer" -- The Concept of Information -- Searching for a Definition of Information -- Explicating "Information" -- The Concept of Information -- Typologies of Information Concepts -- Definitions of Information and Their Problems -- The Influential and Restrictive "Information Theory" -- Five Problematic Issues in Defining Information -- Uncertainty as a Requirement -- Physicality as a Requirement -- Structure/Process as a Requirement -- Intentionality as a Requirement -- Truth as a Requirement -- Must There Be a Universal Definition of Information? -- Distinctions among Information, Knowledge, and Data -- Information Needs and Information Seeking -- The Motivational Puzzle -- What Is a "Need"? -- Needs versus Demands -- Four Scholars Ponder Information Needs -- Seeking Answers -- Reducing Uncertainty -- Making Sense -- The Spectrum of Motivations -- The Trouble with Information Needs -- Information Seeking and Information Behavior -- Decision Making -- Making Decisions -- Solving Problems -- Browsing, Etc. -- Browsing, Scanning, and Serendipity -- Additional Distinctions -- Relevance, Pertinence, and Salience -- Relevance and Pertinence -- Relevance in Information Retrieval -- Salience -- Avoiding Information -- Selective Exposure and Information Avoidance -- Knowledge Gaps and Information Poverty -- Information Overload and Anxiety -- Information versus Entertainment -- Models, Paradigms, and Theories in the Study of Information Behavior -- Models of Information Behavior -- Models of Information Seeking -- Examples of Information Seeking Models -- Wilson Models -- Krikelas Model -- Johnson Model -- Leckie Model -- Comparing the Models -- Perspectives, paradigms, and Theories -- Perspectives and Paradigms -- Theories -- Levels of Theory: Grand to Grounded -- Sources of Theory in Information Seeking -- Some Relevant Paradigms -- Zipf's Principle of Least Effort -- Uses and Gratifications -- Sense-Making -- Media Use as Social Action -- Play Theory and Entertainment Theory -- Other Theories -- Methods for Studying Information Behavior -- The Research Process -- Relating Theory to Methodology -- Why We Need Methods -- Techniques of Measurement and Analysis -- Basic Considerations in Research -- Stages of Research -- Induction and Deduction -- Validity and Reliability -- Purpose, Units, and Time -- Ethics in Research -- Methods: Examples by Type -- Types and Examples of Methods -- The Case Study: Analyzing an Analyst -- Experiments: Shopping for Cars and Cornflakes -- Surveys: CEOs and Scholars -- Brief Interviews: Studies of Everyday Folks -- Intensive Interviews: The Lives of Janitors and Brothers -- Focus Group Interviews: Doctors and Nurses Search for Information -- Diaries and Experience Sampling -- Unobtrusive Approaches: Historical Analysis -- Unobtrusive Approaches: Content Analysis -- Using Multiple Data Sources in a Single Investigation -- Meta-Analysis -- Research Results and Reflections -- Reviewing the Research: Its History, Size, and Topics -- The History of Studying Information Behavior -- Estimating the Size of the Literature -- Contexts and Categories -- Choosing Examples of Studies -- Research by Occupation -- By Occupational Category -- Scientists and Engineers -- Social Scientists -- Humanities Scholars -- Health Care Providers -- Managers -- Journalists -- Lawyers -- Other Occupations -- Research by Social Role and Demographic Group -- Two Other Ways of Studying People -- By Role -- Citizen or Voter -- Consumer -- Patient -- Gatekeeper -- Other Roles -- By Demographic Group -- Age -- Racial and Ethnolinguistic Minorities -- Socioeconomic Status -- Other Demographic Groups -- Reviewing, Critiquing, Concluding -- A History of Complaint -- Current Criticisms.
650 0 $aInformation retrieval$xResearch.
650 0 $aLibrary research$xResearch.
830 0 $aLibrary and information science (New York, N.Y.)
948 $a07/23/2002$b08/19/2002
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