As research questions and topics in information studies evolve, there is a continual need to seek out innovative research methods to help us investigate and address these questions. This paper presents an emerging research method, the creation and analysis of information horizon maps, and discusses the use of such maps in an ongoing research study. Sonnenwald’s (1) framework for human informati...

At present, music digital library systems are being developed based on anecdotal evidence of user needs, intuitive feelings for user information seeking behavior, and a priori assumptions of typical usage scenarios. Emphasis has been placed on basic research into music document representation, efficient searching, and audiobased searching, rather than on exploring the music information needs or...

background: personal information management (pim) refers to the tools and activities to save and retrieve personal information for future uses. this study examined the pim activities of faculty members of iran university of medical sciences (iums) regarding their preferred pim tools and four aspects of acquiring, organizing, storing and retrieving personal information.   methods : the qualitati...

We investigated the differences in information seeking behaviours between low and high literacy users on an on-line social service system called the “Adviseguide” website. Ten volunteers participated in the study. Using the UK’s National Skills for Life Survey, five were classified as high literate; five as low literate. Participants had four information search tasks that vary in difficulty: ea...

This paper describes a small-scale experimental study examining user behaviour in the context of structured documents. Two variants of the same interface to support information seeking were implemented, one highlighting relevant objects and one highlighting best entry points (BEPs). BEPs are intended to support users’ natural information seeking behaviour by providing optimal starting points fo...

The theory of Radical Change, which is based on the digital age principles of interactivity, connectivity, and access, is suggested as a lens to reexamine existing research on youth information-seeking behavior in the digital environment. After a brief review of research meta-analyses, which often point to defi cits in youth information-seeking behavior, questions that emerge from this research...

Digital Library (DL) has become a mean to distribute multimedia contents in the networked information environment. Previous researchers have suggested ways to improve the design of multimedia DLs, however, users’ information seeking behavior is often neglected. Existing studies on users’ searching behavior do not provide any insights specifically into the behavior of users searching for multime...