Welcome!This website is an assemblage of posts originally written by Dr. Jenna Hartel in 2011-2012 to stimulate discussion within the mailing list of ASIS&T's Special Interest Group on Information Seeking and Use (SIG-USE). Altogether the posts function as a modest "Reading Guide to Information Behaviour." |
The objective of the Reading Guide is to help newcomers enter the wonderful literature of information behaviour. In each installment readers are introduced to a key information resource on information behaviour, such as the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences (ELIS), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), an information behaviour textbook, and an information behaviour handbook. The Reading Guide also includes informative "newsflashes" about an important debate and bibliometrics; as well as some more recent information on turns.
There are differing views in our research area today about the basic terminology: “information behaviour” versus “information practice" (Savolainen, 2007). This issue will be side-stepped here in the Reading Guide; I will simply use “information behaviour” as a banner for the research area that follows Marcia Bates' definition: "Information behaviour is...the many ways in which human beings interact with information, in particular, the ways in which people seek and utilize information" (Bates, 2010).
There are differing views in our research area today about the basic terminology: “information behaviour” versus “information practice" (Savolainen, 2007). This issue will be side-stepped here in the Reading Guide; I will simply use “information behaviour” as a banner for the research area that follows Marcia Bates' definition: "Information behaviour is...the many ways in which human beings interact with information, in particular, the ways in which people seek and utilize information" (Bates, 2010).