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  1. Wallace, P.M.: Periodical title searching in online catalogues (1997) 0.07
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    Date
    29. 7.1998 10:57:22
    Source
    Serials review. 23(1997) no.3, S.27-35
    Year
    1997
  2. Stokmans, M.; Oomens, A.: Meer grasduinen door genreplaatsing? : genre- of alfabetische plaatsing: onderzoek naar verschillen in gebruikersgedrag (1997) 0.06
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    Source
    BibliotheekBlad. 1(1997) no.21, S.22-23
    Year
    1997
  3. Belkin, N.J.: ¬An overview of results from Rutgers' investigations of interactive information retrieval (1998) 0.04
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    Date
    22. 9.1997 19:16:05
    Source
    Visualizing subject access for 21st century information resources: Papers presented at the 1997 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, 2-4 Mar 1997, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ed.: P.A. Cochrane et al
  4. Byström, K.: Information seekers in context : an analysis of the 'doer' in INSU studies (1999) 0.04
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    Abstract
    In information needs, seeking and use (INSU) research, individuals have most commonly been perceived as users (e.g., Kuhlthau, 1991; Dervin & Nilan, 1986; Dervin, 1989; Belkin, 1980). The concept user originates from the user of libraries and other information services and information systems. Over the years the scope of the concept has become wider and it is nowadays often understood in the sense of seekers of information (e.g., Wilson, 1981; Marchionini, 1995) and users of information (e.g., Streatfield, 1983). Nevertheless, the concept has remained ambiguous by being on the one hand universal and on the other hand extremely specific. The purpose of this paper is to map and evaluate views on people whose information behaviour has been in one way or another the core of our research area. The goal is to shed some light on various relationships between the different aspects of doers in INSU studies. The paper is inspired by Dervin's (1997) analysis of context where she identified among other themes the nature of subject by contrasting a `transcendental individual' with a `decentered subject', and Talja's (1997) presentation about constituting `information' and `user' from the discourse analytic viewpoint as opposed to the cognitive viewpoint. Instead of the metatheoretical approach applied by Dervin and Talja, a more concrete approach is valid in the present analysis where no direct arguments for or against the underlying metatheories are itemised. The focus is on doers in INSU studies leaving other, even closely-related concepts (i.e., information, information seeking, knowledge etc.), outside the scope of the paper.
    Date
    22. 3.2002 9:55:52
  5. Fidel, R.: ¬The user-centered approach (2000) 0.04
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    Abstract
    I started my professional career in library and information science because of my great interest in knowledge organization. The more experience I gained in the profession, the more I realized how crucial it is to understand which organization would be best for each group of users. This in turn requires an understanding of how users seek information. And so now my focus is an studying information seeking and searching behavior. Throughout the relatively long course of changing my focus, I followed Pauline Cochrane's writings. Now I can say that she has been among the first to have a "user-centered approach" to knowledge organization, and she has used the term three years before it became a mainstream phrase. The following is a short discussion about the usercentered approach which was presented in a workshop in 1997.
    Date
    22. 9.1997 19:16:05
  6. Arbeitskreis 'Benutzererwartungen in die Sacherschließung' der Kommission für Sacherschließung der VÖB: Schlagwort "Benutzerforschung" : Beobachtungen bei der sachlichen Suche im OPAC des österreichischen wissenschaftlichen Bibliothekenverbundes (1997) 0.03
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    Source
    Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare. 50(1997) H.3/4, S.28-49
    Year
    1997
  7. Sullenger, P.: ¬A serials transaction log analysis (1997) 0.03
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    Source
    Serials review. 23(1997) no.3, S.21-26
    Year
    1997
  8. Hsieh, Y.-s.: ¬A study on the users' perception to the body language of reference librarians (1997) 0.03
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    Source
    Journal of educational media and library sciences. 35(1997) no.3, S.258-282
    Year
    1997
  9. Scholle, U.: Kann ich Ihnen behilflich sein? : Erhebung am zentralen Auskunftsplatz der ULB Münster (2000) 0.02
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    Date
    22. 1.2000 17:52:11
  10. Branch, J.L.: Investigating the information-seeking process of adolescents : the value of using think alouds and think afters (2000) 0.02
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    Source
    Library and information science research. 22(2000) no.4, S.371-382
  11. Wojtasik, U.A.: Oczekiwania uzytkownikow a rozwoj komputerowego katalogu bibliotecznego na Politechnice Wroclawskiej (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    Bibliotekarz. 1997, no.5, S.18-21
    Year
    1997
  12. Cooper, L.: ¬The retreival of information in an elementary school library media center : an alternative method of classification in the Common School Library, Amherst, Massachusetts (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    Public and access services quarterly. 2(1997) no.3, S.1-24
    Year
    1997
  13. Tenopir, C.: Common end user errors (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    Library journal. 122(1997) no.8, S.31-32
    Year
    1997
  14. Atkinson, J.D.; Figueroa, M.: Information seeking behaviour of business students : a research study (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    Reference librarian. 1997, no.58, S.59-73
    Year
    1997
  15. Read, J.: 'What do you want?' : a question academic libraries should be asking their users (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    Assistant librarian. 90(1997) no.9, S.130-132
    Year
    1997
  16. Schmidt, E.; Weigang, G.; Schulz, U.: OPAC-Nutzer ernst genommen : eine Thinking-Aloud-Studie am ALS-OPAC der Hamburger Öffentlichen Bücherhallen (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    Bibliothek: Forschung und Praxis. 21(1997) H.2, S.215-226
    Year
    1997
  17. Park, I.: ¬A comparative study of major OPACs in selected academic libraries for developing countries : user study and subjective user evaluation (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    International information and library review. 29(1997) no.1, S.67-83
    Year
    1997
  18. Sapa, R.: Zachowania informacy jne uzytkownika OPAC w Bibliotece Jagiellonskiej (1997) 0.02
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    Source
    Zagadnienia informacji naukowej. 1997, no.2, S.70-79
    Year
    1997
  19. Williamson, K.: ¬The information needs and information-seeking behavior of older adults : an Australian study (1997) 0.02
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    Year
    1997
  20. Fabritius, H.: Triangulation as a multiperspective strategy in a qualitative study of information seeking behaviour of journalists (1999) 0.02
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    Abstract
    Recently, the importance of application of multiple, qualitative methods has been emphasised in the field of information seeking and retrieval research. (See Fidel 1993; Vakkari 1997). One of the earliest and most ambitious attempts to apply multiple methods was the research project on information needs and information services in local authority social services departments. (Wilson & Streatfield 1977; Wilson, et al., 1979; Wilson 1981). In studies on information needs and seeking qualitative methods have gained a leading position in the 1990's (Vakkari 1997: 451). Indisputably, this is the case when looking at recent information needs, seeking and use research carried out by Algon (1997), Ellen (1998), Barry (1995), Byström (1997), Iivonen (1996), Kirk (1997), Kuhlthau (1993), Solomon (1997) and Sonnenwald and Lievrouw (1996). Furthermore, though the approach of the study is qualitative the application of quantitative techniques is not necessarily excluded. In methodological literature attention is paid to integrating qualitative and quantitative techniques. These methods are not opposite but they complement to each other. In a qualitative study various methods can be combined. Triangulation can be seen in two ways: firstly, to ascertain the validity of research; secondly, to employ the methods that are appropriate to the subject investigated. Application of triangulation in the former way aims at the full, 'objective' picture of the subject studied, while the picture obtained in the latter way is like a kaleidoscope. Thus the ultimate reason for triangulating is to gain deeper understanding of the phenomenon studied.

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