Government public information officers and risk communicators bear the burden for reaching all Americans with public health and emergency messages. To assess needs specifically regarding communication to reduce health disparities, an Internet survey is made available to members of the National Public Health Information Coalition. Respondents are asked to rate their own needs at their level of o...

PURPOSE The research sought to provide evidence to support the development of a long-term strategy for the Via Christi Regional Medical Center Libraries. METHODS An information needs assessment was conducted in a large medical center serving approximately 5,900 physicians, clinicians, and nonclinical staff in 4 sites in 1 Midwestern city. Quantitative and qualitative data from 1,295 self-repo...

There is a wealth of knowledge linking Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to human development, but Africa’s leaders have not used it well to develop its human capital. The continent has the lowest global levels of ICT diffusion and human development. This paper proposes a way of developing Africa’s vital access to knowledge through ICT, by reviewing and using the human developm...

Organizations turn to technology as a possible solution to improve efficiency and reduce waste in their operating processes. Most of their inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement are hiding in their process level data. This experience paper describes the information needs in a hospital setting and the journey of delivering a business intelligence program that was designed to address th...

s for tracking resources. To begin with, chaining is a significant seeking activity in art historical research and it is usually carried out through, for example, books, articles, Digital Infrastructure for Art Historical Research: thinking about user needs Christina Kamposiori 249 bibliographic catalogues, references and footnotes. Brilliant (1988) described effectively this activity in

An automatic mechanism that gives verbal navigation instructions to pedestrians in situ needs to take into account a number of factors. Besides giving the instruction at the right time and place, the information needs to be as unambiguous as possible for the user to both choose the correct path and be confident in doing so. Humans make extensive use of landmarks when describing the way to other...

Word importance discrimination is a task deserving attention when one treats a topic from TREC where a topic is quite long. The goal of the process is to estimate importance of words which carry any (additional) information about user information needs. In our experiments we estimated word importance using context information of a word.

This is the first of a series of publications to inform drug service planning and provision by presenting results from the Department of Health’s Black and minority ethnic drug misuse needs assessment project that was conducted throughout England in three phases during 2000-2001, 2004-2005, and 2006. This project employed the Centre for Ethnicity and Health’s Community Engagement Model to train...

Documents ojlen display a structure determined by the author, e.g., several chapters, each with several sub-chapters and so on. Taking into account the structure of a document allows the retrieval process to focus on those parts of the documents that are most relevant to an information need. Chiaramella et al advanced a model for indexing and retrieving structured documents. Their aim was to ex...

This paper focuses on the information needs and behaviours of senior citizens and their carers in the community. Two case studies concerning elderly stroke patients and their carers are described and discussed. Analysis of the case study data reveals a number of themes including the actual information needs and information behaviours of the senior citizens, the importance of proxy information s...