Blogs about: Information Seeking

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Project Projections: Plans A, B and C

shac2522 wrote 2 weeks ago: One of my goals for my internship at Hardesty Library is to develop a project that demonstrates many … more →

Tags: internship, Access, BOok Talks, Children, COLLECTIONS, Genre, Information Services, Libraries, OPAC

The Myth of the Compromised Need?

James Kalbach wrote 1 month ago: Jeppe Nicolaisen, from the Royal School of Library and Information Science, has an interesting forth … more →

Tags: compromised need, nicolaisen, Taylor

The Cochrane Library is now free for all Canadians!

annietv600 wrote 2 months ago:   About a year ago, I wrote a blog post entitled Cochrane Library: Free access for all?  Well, this … more →

Tags: Literature Searching, Patient Care, Web Resources / Search Tools

Amazon's Algorithm "Glitch"

shac2522 wrote 3 months ago: For those of us who support freedom of expression and the right to read, this is rather disturbing … more →

Tags: Books, Access, Freedom of Expression, right to read

Information behavior

Bo wrote 4 months ago: One of my first information school classes was called “information behavior.” I always t … more →

Tags: Information, dissemination, Information behavior, information distribution

Skills and Free Will

shac2522 wrote 4 months ago: In response to the question, “Can we assume all students are competent at seeking and using in … more →

Tags: graduate assistantship, Information Services, Students, Freedom

Thoughts re: Robert Taylor's Info Seeking Model

shac2522 wrote 5 months ago: In a discussion about Robert S. Taylor’s article “Question-Negotiation and Information Seeking in Li … more →

Tags: graduate assistantship, library & information studies, Access, Information Services, models

One of these things is not like the others: Livingsocial's recommender services2 comments

danamckay wrote 5 months ago: Last year I did an experiment: I logged every book I read, complete with tags about timing, subject … more →

Tags: Commerce, facebook, Real World, Travel, usefulness

What we know about users seeking information in digital image collections

newbysnotion wrote 8 months ago: What do we know about how users seek information within digital image collections?  What do we know … more →

Tags: Digital Images

Human meaning in machine encoding? Thoughts on the semantic web1 comment

danamckay wrote 9 months ago: Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, outlines his goals for the semantic web in the … more →

Tags: 23 Things, social issues, usefulness, user experience, Web

On information-seeking behavior

The Ringo Kid wrote 10 months ago: In found these interesting articles: 1)How Google is Changing Our Information-Seeking Behavior Nic … more →

Tags: Google, Processing information, Online reading

Serial Killers and Information Seeking Behaviour

consequencing wrote 11 months ago: At my talk on Information Architecture last year, I described how the foraging behaviour of bees cou … more →

Search Radar

James Kalbach wrote 1 year ago: Around 1980 Nicholas Belkin proposed a new model for understanding information seeking, called ASK: … more →

Tags: Search, ask, nick belkin, search radar

ROAR & DOAR: Registry / Directory of Open Access Respositories

annietv600 wrote 1 year ago:   I started to look for open access repositories and was getting absolutely overwhelmed until I disc … more →

Tags: Series or Collections, Web Resources / Search Tools, open access

Meeting the Information Needs of the American Public: Past Actions and Future Initiatives

lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: http://www.nclis.gov/about/MeetingtheInformationNeedsoftheAmericanPeople-NCLISFinalReport.pdf A Repo … more →

Tags: information seeking habits

E-health reality check

Sandy Swanson wrote 1 year ago: Susannah Fox at Pew Internet & American Life compares two Pew reports that seem to say different … more →

Tags: Consumer Health, cancer information, Pew Internet and American Life, Susannah Fox

"We want to look for concepts, but we are forced to search for words"

Laurel Tarulli wrote 1 year ago: This quote is from my old Online Retrieval textbook by Geraldine Walker and Joseph Janes.  I’ve be … more →

Tags: The Cataloguer, Our profession, The Library Catalogue, Subject headings, information seekers, The Catalogue., Catalog, information organization, digital information

In Search of Solutions: Using the Internet, Libraries and Government to Find Help

lilyheart wrote 1 year ago: Information searches that solve problems How people use the internet, libraries, and government age … more →

Tags: Internet, information seeking habits

Pew Internet Report: Information Seeking Behavior

Sandy Swanson wrote 1 year ago: Meredith Farkas summarizes a new Pew Internet & American Life report in her blog Information W … more →

Tags: Consumer Health, Future of libraries, Internet, information sources, Pew


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