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Abstract

There is a research tradition in the information field of focusing on information seeking particularly people's strategies and sources, information retrievalparticularly the abilities of information systems to retrieve `relevant' documents, or other physically countable things such as a citations, co-citation, or acknowledgement. These research traditions seem to have been shaped both by the history of research funding and the objective nature of information sources, retrieved items, and citations. Yet, these research foci get at only a small portion of the role that information plays in people's lives (cf., Chatman (1996) and Savolainen (1995). Alternatively, the idea of information seeking in context offers encouragement to loosen the structures of terminology, research foci, methods, and assumptions about ideal behavior to discover what the role of information in people's lives is. The seemingly simple addition of the notion of in context permits a joining of not only user and system views but adds the potential of grounding both understanding and the products of the information profession in work's tasks, life's problems, and people's strategies for coping. Through such grounded discovery, it seems that there is a better chance of creating supports that fit the tasks and problems that people regularly face. Too, such grounding may suggest a somewhat different view of how information professionals might contribute and on what information systems might focus.

Date

22. 3.2002 9:51:12

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Abstract

This article reports research that explored children's information retrieval behavior using an OPAC in an elementary school library. The study considers the impact of a variety of factors including user characteristics, the school setting, interface usability, and information access features on children's information retrieval success and breakdown. The study reports the overall patterns of children's behavior that influence success and breakdown in information retrieval as well as findings about the intentions, moves, plans, strategies, and search terms of children in grades one through six

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Abstract

This study considers the possibility of utilizing the categories employed by researchers within a subject domain as one approach for mapping the knowledge organization of that domain. The idea is tested using a sample of research reports dealing with the information behavior of people (e.g., physician, nurses, and patients) in the health care domain. It was relatively easy to identify category systems within the sample of texts. Consideration of the configuration of category systems employed across the analyzed texts shows a pattern of broad consistency. Many of the research reports employed some version of a diagnosis, treatment, and referral category system related to the information behavior of physicians, though there were many variations on this general category breakout. There were also many uses of alternative category systems (e.g., specialty area, information types, and dilemmas) that suggest the applicability and use of alternative views of the situations being studied. The key challenges for the future appear to be the specification of relations among category systems of different research reports and visualization of the identified rich relationships including the evolution of category systems over time

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Abstract

Reports on a study at an elementary school in Washington, DC examining pupils' use of an OPAC. Presents this within the overall instructional environment of the school in order to open a window on the broader interaction of children, technology, curriculum, instruction and learning. Explains the methodology used in the study, the findings of the study, and notes a number of conclusions. Focuses in particular on the patterns of success and failure of children's use of the OPAC, their search strategies and the nature of their interaction with the OPAC

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Abstract

Reports some of the key aspects of the 3 year longitudinal study of work planning in a public agency involved in natural resource conservation and focusing on the information seeking bahviour of the participants as they struggle to make sense of the work planning task in a context of a rapidly changing environment

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Abstract

Reports on a study of children's intentions, purposes, search terms, strategies, successes and breakdowns in accessing fiction. Data was gathered using naturalistic methods of persistent, intensive observation and questioning with children in several school library media centres in the USA, including 997 OPAC transactions. Analyzes the data and highlights aspects of the broader context of the system which may help in development of mechanisms for electronic access