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Download full textBitso, Constance; Fourie, Ina – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2012
Introduction: This study investigates the information needs and information-seeking patterns of secondary level geography teachers in Lesotho to guide the design and implementation of an information service for these teachers. Leckie, Pettigrew and Sylvain's model of professionals' information-seeking served as a theoretical framework but was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Information Seeking, Information Needs
Miranda, Silvania V.; Tarapanoff, Kira M. A. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: The paper deals with the identification of the information needs and information competencies of a professional group. Theoretical basis: A theoretical relationship between information needs and information competencies as subjects is proposed. Three dimensions are examine: cognitive, affective and situational. The recognition of an…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Participant Observation, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries
Huvila, Isto – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2008
Introduction: A work roles and role theory-based approach to conceptualise human information activity, denoted information work analysis is discussed. The present article explicates the approach and its special characteristics and benefits in comparison to earlier methods of analysing human information work. Method: The approach is discussed in…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Information Management, Job Analysis, Role Theory
Bar-Ilan, Judit; Shalom, Nira; Shoham, Snunith; Baruchson-Arbib, Shifra; Getz, Irith – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2006
Introduction: This paper proposes a model of information behaviour of women during their lifelong struggle to maintain normal weight. Method: The model is integrative and contextual, built on existing models in information science and several other disciplines, and the life stories of about fifty Israeli women aged 25-55 and interviews with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Females, Body Weight
Durrance, Joan C.; Souden, Maria; Walker, Dana; Fisher, Karen E. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2006
Introduction: This article results from a qualitative study of 1) information behavior in community problem-solving framed as a distributed information use environment and 2) approaches used by a best-practice library to anticipate information needs associated with community problem solving. Method: Several approaches to data collection were…
Descriptors: Community, Problem Solving, Information Utilization, Information Needs
