Exploring the contexts of information behaviour   Edited by Thomas D. Wilson and David K. Allen     ISBN 0 947568 75 1 1999 £65.00/US$120.00     Order this book   Recommend to library   Back   Home

CONTENTS     KEYNOTE PAPERS   Context, power, bodies and information: exploring the 'entangled' contexts of information Lucas D. Introna   Investigating patterns in information seeking: concepts in contexts Carol C. Kuhlthau   Towards a theoretical framework for information retrieval in an information seeking context Amanda Spink   Task complexity, information types, search strategies and relevance: integrating studies on information seeking and retrieval Pertti Vakkari   Exploring models of information behaviour: the 'Uncertainty' Project Tom Wilson     THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES   Can institutional theory contribute to our understanding of information seeking behaviour Ragnar Audunson   Information seekers in context: an analysis of the 'doer' in INSU studies Katriina Bystrom   Towards a predictive model of information seeking: empirical studies of end-user searching Mark Ennis, A.G. Sutcliffe and S.J. Watkinson   Three conceptions of information seeking and use Louise Limberg   Discourse: a new theoretical framework for examining information behaviour in its social context Michael Olsson   Information mosaics: patterns of action that structure Paul Solomon   Perspectives of human information behaviour: contexts, situations, social networks and information horizons Diane H. Sonnenwald   What motivates the browser? Elaine G. Toms     THE HEALTH SERVICES CONTEXT   Information needs of physicians at the University Clinic Hospital in Valencia, Spain Maria Abad-Garcia, A. Gonzalez-Teruel and L. Sanjuan-Nebot   Information seeking of primary care physicians: conceptual models and empirical studies Paul Gorman   An investigation of the information seeking behaviour of medical oncologists in Metropolitan Pittsburgh using a multi-method approach Edward Lomax, Henry J. Lowe, Theodore F. Logan and Ellen G. Detlefsen   Agents of information: the role of community health nurses in linking the elderly with local resources by providing human services information Karen E. Pettigrew   Using vignettes to diagnose information seeking strategies: opportunities and possible problems for information use studies of health professionals Christine J. Urquhart   The transition from formalized need to compromised need in the context of clinical problem solving Barbara Wildemuth, Keith Cogdill and Charles P. Friedman     EVERYDAY LIFE   The citizenship information needs of the UK public: the quest for representativeness in methodological approach Rita Marcella and Graeme Baxter   Information seeking behaviour of public library users: use and non-use of electronic media Colette Coles   Putting new media in its place: the Edinburgh experience Anya-Maaike Green and Elisabeth Davenport   Finding without seeking: what readers say about the role of pleasure-reading as a source of information Catherine Sheldrick Ross   Seeking and using information from the Internet: the context of non-work use Reijo Savolainen   Everyday life information seeking by low income African American households: Wynnewood Healthy Neighbourhood Project Amanda Spink, Kaye E. Bray, Martin Jaeckel and Greg Sidberry     THE WORK ENVIRONMENT   School governors and effective decision making Pat Dixon and Linda Banwell   Imagery for constructing meaning in the information search process: a study of middle school students Linda Cooper and Carol C. Kuhlthau   Triangulation as a multi-perspective strategy in a qualitative study of information seeking behaviour of journalists Hannele Fabritius   Training for the information economy: a study of the information culture of a graduate business school Scott Johnston   The information behaviour of senior executives David Keane   The changing information environment: the impact of the Internet on information seeking behaviour in the media David Nicholas and Peter Williams   A policy capturing study of media choice: the effect of information needs and user characteristics on media choice Lidwien van de Wijngaert   ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION IN CONTEXT   Modelling context in information seeking Patrick Brezillon and I. Saker   Validity claims: assigning contextual information Anita Fetzer   On the interpretative authority of information systems Jonathan Foster   When essence becomes function: post-structuralist implications for an ecological theory of organisational classification systems Elin K. Jacob and Hanne Albrechtsen   Information: a critical realist approach Alistair Mutch   Process, representation and taskworld. Distributed cognition and the organisation of information Mark Perry     AN INFORMATION SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE   Social network analysis as a tool to evaluate IM in the public sector: a pilot study in the University of Tampere Maija-Leena Huotari   Where to from here? Results of an empirical study and user-centred implications for system design Heidi Julien   An evaluation of case study methodology within information systems research Hugh Preston and Tim Hayward   Conditions for designing different kinds of information systems Anders Malmsjo