Information need
Subtitle: a theory connecting information search to knowledge formation
By: by Charles Cole
Series: ASIS&T monograph series
Publisher: Published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology by Information Today, Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Medford, New Jersey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781573874298
Subjects: Information behavior; Human information processing; Theory of Knowledge; Information storage and retrieval systems; Information theory; Information retrieval
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of information need; title: The history of information need; title: The framework for our discussion; title: Modeling the user in information search; title: Information seeking's conceptualization of information need during information search; title: Information use; title: Adaptation : internal information flows and knowledge generation; title: A theory of information need; title: How information need works; title: The user's situation in the pre-focus search; title: The situation of user's information need in pre-focus information search; title: The selection concept; title: A review of the user's pre-focus information search; title: How information need works in a focusing search; title: Circles 1 to 5 : how information need works; title: Corroborating research; title: Applying information need; title: The astrolabe : an information system for stage 3 information exploration; title: Conclusion.