Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma

Public Relations Quarterly;  April 1, 1997 ;     186 words ...Information Seeking: An Organizational Dilemma...people do and do not seek information. While the benefits of information seeking are well known, we know...strategies that promote information seeking is needed. This book...can employ to enhance information ...

Personality and information seeking: understanding how traits influence...

The Journal of Business Communication;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......1983). Yet information seeking has typically...foundational work on information seeking, Miller and...the overall information-seeking process of...traditional information-seeking antecedents...the overall information-seeking behavior...costs and ...

Libraries in the Digital Age 2002: this conference focused on information...

Information Today;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Integrating Information Seeking and IR and Information Services-Practi...Croatia. Speakers contrasted information seeking and information retrieval...relevance for the evaluation of information seeking systems. They also explored...

INFORMATION SEEKING ON UNIVERSITY WEB SITES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

The Journal of Computer Information Systems;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......relationships between information seeking methods employed...our study is on information seeking and retrieval on...study the terms information seeking, information retrieval...how Internet users seek information on the web (10...students navigate or seek ...

Instructional Intervention is the Key: Supporting Adolescent Information...

School Libraries Worldwide;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...This research sought to examine the information seeking processes employed by Canadian junior...Introduction Understanding the information seeking processes of adolescents involves...studies that look at adolescent information seeking processes. It is interesting to...

Down to earth.(Looking for information: a survey of research on...

The Australian Library Journal;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......information: a survey of research on information seeking, needs and behavior. San Diego...areas indicated in the subtitle: information seeking, information needs, information...identifies models and theories used in information seeking studies, provides examples of methods...

Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking,...

Journal of the Medical Library Association;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior. San Diego...120 -1503810 -X. Research into information-seeking behavior occupies a niche at the...Information: A Survey of Research on Information seeking, Needs, and Behavior, he presents...

Libraries reaching out with health information to vulnerable populations:...

Journal of the Medical Library Association;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......substantial attention to researching information seeking and use. One branch is the field...comparison of what is known about information seeking and use based on these two bodies...some thirty years to studies of information seeking and use. Each has accumulated a...

Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference University of Technology...

Australian Academic & Research Libraries;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...For the first time, the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference...Washington) titled 'Barriers to Information Seeking in School Libraries; Conflicts...Toronto) spoke about 'Information Seeking in Organisations: Epistemic...

Coming-Out: Gay Males' Information Seeking

School Libraries Worldwide;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......New Jersey, United States examines information-seeking of young gay males about coming...related their information needs, information-seeking activities, and the conditions of...of a gay identity. Participants' information-seeking typically involved interacting with...

Information Seeking in Context.

Australian Academic & Research Libraries;  December 1, 1998 ;     487 words ...The second Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference was held in Sheffield from...might include Tom Wilson in a keynote session on `Models in information seeking behaviour research', picking up a 3-D model suggested by...

Theme Section: Adolescents of the Information Age: Patterns of Information...

School Libraries Worldwide;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......this issue's focus on adolescents' information seeking and use. It briefly explores some...information contexts, information needs, information seeking behaviors, patterns of information...information, information users, information seeking behavior, and information use, as...

People seek information at the Flightcare desk as thousands of...

Getty Images;  August 11, 2008 ;     84 words ...HERWIG VERGULT Getty Images 08-11-2008 People seek information at the Flightcare desk as thousands of... Full Size JPG (2150 KB) People seek information at the Flightcare desk as thousands of passengers are blocked in the departure hall of Brussels...

Intellectual isolation, geographical isolation and information overload of...

Rural Society;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......reports the results of a study of the information-seeking behaviour of academics for research...academics were interviewed about their information-seeking behaviour, a diary of impressions...this research was the way in which information-seeking behaviour was motivated. It was...

Information needs and information seeking in primary care: a study of...

Journal of the Medical Library Association;  April 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......instances of information needs and information seeking. Results: NPs most frequently needed...emerged as a negative predictor of information seeking. Conclusions: This study has addressed...development of a temporal model of information seeking in these settings. Results of this...