these days knowledge and information play a vital role in promoting of productivity and sustainability. the main purpose of this descriptive– survey research was to analysis information seeking behavior of carp farmers in sangar’s area of rasht county. information seeking behavior of farmers including definition process and gathering information of usage technology, evaluation, information savi...

The principal task of information professionals is to satisfy the various information needs of users in different contexts, studying their requirements, their seeking habits and their management and use of information. According to information behaviour researchers, information seeking behaviour analysis is the study of the 'activities a person may engage in when identifying their own needs for...

This paper presents an argument that information systems may support deeper engagement between readers and the text by realizing the capacity for readers to take more active roles while seeking information. Information systems could support collaborative information seeking by displaying shared annotations. Subsequent readers would be able to leverage the semantic information encoded within the...

Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to study information types in the context of simple, semi-complex and complex tasks in city administration. Task complexity has proved an important aspect of information seeking practices. Method. Employees of a city administration completed questionnaires when initiating and finishing their work tasks. Questions concerned task complexity, information ...

Since common ground is pivotal to collaboration, this paper proposes to define collaborative information seeking as the combined activity of information seeking and collaborative grounding. While information-seeking activities are necessary for collaborating actors to acquire new information, the activities involved in information seeking are often performed by varying subgroups of actors. Cons...

Purpose: This study aimed to acquire knowledge about Singapore secondary school (ages 13 to 16 years old) students’ skills in searching, evaluating and using information. Methodology: A comprehensive instrument encompassing the basic IL skills, as well as a new dimension of ethical usage of information and collaborative information seeking was used for data collection. From August to November 2...

Although the importance of individual characteristics and psychological factors has been conceptualized in many models of information seeking behaviour (e.g., Case 2007; Wilson 1999) research into personality issues has only recently attracted attention in information science. This may be explained by the work by Heinström (2002; 2003; 2006a; 2006b; 2006c), but may also be explained by the emer...

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First, you can Browse by Topic [7] to find content from different topical or subject categories. RHAZ [8] contains information specific to Arizona. Science [9] contains items about scientific processes, experiments, theories, and publications. People and Places [10] includes content about individuals, organizations, and places. Medicine [11] collects content about medical processes and disorder...