Synopses & Reviews
Review
icant service for students and researchers..."
Journal of the Medical Library Association
Review
Some reviews of the first edition:
"...an ambitious book...particularly welcome as an academic textbook...a wealth of concrete examples of information seeking in everyday contexts..."
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
"A welcome and ambitious book that should be received with open arms...clear and readable...highly accessible...cannot be overlooked..."
Information Research
"...an especially useful source, assembling and framing user-centered studies...Case has performed a significant service for students and researchers..."
Journal of the Medical Library Association
About the Author
Donald O. Case holds a PhD in Communications Research from Stanford University. He has been a Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information Studies since 1994, and between 1983 and 1994 was a faculty member at the University of California, Los Angeles, teaching in the graduate Information Studies program and in the undergraduate Communication Studies program.Professor Case teaches courses in information seeking, research methodology and the social implications of information technologies. He conducts research on communication technologies and information-seeking. Case's articles have appeared in Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Library and Information Science Research, New Media and Society, Telecommunications Policy, The Information Society, and the Journal of Communication, among other publications.
Table of Contents
Figures and Tables
Preface
One. Introduction and Examples
1. Information Behavior: An Introduction
2. Common Examples of Information Behavior
Two. Concepts Relevant to Information Behavior
3. The Concept of Information
4. Information Needs and Information Seeking
5. Related Concepts
Three. Models, Paradigms, and Theories in the Study of Information Behavior
6. Models of Information Behavior
7. Perspectives, Paradigms, and Theories
Four. Methods for Studying Information Behavior
8. The Research Process
9. Methods: Examples by Type
Five. Research Results and Reflections
10. Reviewing the Research: Its History, Size, and Topics
11. Research by Occupation
12. Research by Social Role and Demographic Group
13. Reviewing, Critiquing, Concluding
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Questions for Discussion and Application
References
Author Index
Subject Index