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• Lists of Figures and Tables Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Information Behavior
• Chapter 2: Fundamental Concepts
• Chapter 3: Historical Development of the Field
• Chapter 4: Related Concepts
• Chapter 5: Information Literacy
• Chapter 6: Digital Divide and Digital Inclusion
• Chapter 7: Finding, Reading, and Critiquing Information Behavior Studies
• Chapter 8: Research Methods
• Chapter 9: Assessing User Information-Related Preferences and Information Needs
• Chapter 10: Investigating User Information Behavior
• Chapter 11: Connecting Information Behavior and Human Computer Interaction: User Experience, Accessibility, and Usability
• Chapter 12: Information Behavior Models and Theories
• Chapter 13: Consumer Health Information Behavior and Health Justice
• Chapter 14: Youth Information Behavior
• Chapter 15: Legal Information Behavior and Access to Justice
• Chapter 16: Information Behavior in Libraries
• Chapter 17: The Information-Related Professions: The Underlying Thread of Information Behavior Acronyms Glossary About the Authors.
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This introductory textbook aims to provide undergraduate students in information science and related disciplines with an applied grounding in information behavior. The book's primary focus is to provide explicit links between information behavior and the careers that students will pursue within the information professions. With a deeper understanding of information behavior, students will be better equipped to address the many types of barriers that frequently prevent people from effectively and efficiently accessing, understanding, managing, and/or using the information they need in the "real world." The first six chapters of the book provide students with the fundamental building blocks of information behavior, introduce them to important related concepts, and provide a deep dive into information literacy, digital literacy, the digital divide and digital inclusion. Chapters 7 through 12 introduce students to the scholarly communication system, providing guidance on how to find, read, and critically evaluate information behavior studies. Also explored in these chapters are the various methods used to investigate and understand people's information behaviors. Topics covered include research design, research methods, research ethics, user needs assessment, and human-computer interaction and associated design methods. This part of the book also covers some of the major information behavior models and theories that have been developed to describe, predict, and/or explain people's information behaviors. In chapters 13 through 16, the authors provide an in-depth look into their own information behavior research areas, including consumer health information behavior and health justice; youth information behavior; legal information behavior and access to justice; and information behavior in libraries. In the final chapter, students are first introduced to a wide range of careers within the information professions and then taken along on a deep dive into 10 specific jobs, with a special focus on the thread of information behavior that pervades the roles and responsibilities commonly associated with these positions. Each chapter begins with one or more scenarios illustrating concepts covered in the chapter and ends with discussion questions.
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• Information seeking in context
• Psychological aspects of information behaviour - when and why can information seeking be positive or negative?
• Individual differences in information behaviour - reasons behind individual search differences other than personality
• Personality - defines the concept of personality and introduces trait theory and the five-factor model
• Personality and information behaviour - discusses how personality may influence the attitude towards information, information behaviour, and reaction to information
• Implications for information services - explores how practitioners can customize their information services to match customers with different information attitudes, needs and styles
• Conclusions.
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• Introduction
• Personality
• Openness to experience � the exploration dimension
• Conscientiousness � the persistence dimension
• Extroversion � the social dimension
• Agreeableness � the trust dimension
• Negative affectivity � the emotional dimension
• Need for cognition
• Positive emotionality
• Self-efficacy and self-confidence
• Locus of control
• Monitoring and blunting
• Uncertainty orientation
• Broad scanning, fast surfing and deep diving
• Discussion.
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From Fear to Flow explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour and reaction to information. Consideration is made for individual differences in information behaviour and reasons behind individual search differences. The book reviews personality and information behaviour and discusses how personality may influence the attitude towards information. Reaction to information is examined in contexts such as everyday life, decision-making, work, studies and human-computer interaction. * Introduces a little researched area which is current and needed in our Information Age* Explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour and reaction to information* Provides an overview of the psychological aspects and individual differences in information seeking behaviour and examines reasons behind individual search differences other than personality.
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This book explores how personality traits may influence attitude, behaviour, and reaction to information. In threatening health situations, for instance, calm people with high self-reliance often react by actively seeking out diagnostic information and treatment alternatives, while more anxious persons may become stagnated and depressed and deliberately avoid information. Persistence and conscientiousness often leads to a problem-solving approach to information seeking: structured and organized with a focus on the outcome. Openness to experience again is often related to enjoyment of information exploration, sometimes to the point of experiencing flow, total immersion in the experience. This book will cover personality related information reactions in contexts such as everyday life, decision-making, work, studies and human-computer interaction.This book introduces a little researched area which is current and needed in our Information Age. It combines knowledge from psychology and information studies.
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• Introduction.- Data discovery: A human-centered view.- Data needs.- Discovering data.- Data evaluation and sensemaking.- Recommendations for data discovery, sensemaking and reuse.
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This book synthesizes existing research on human-centered data discovery, as well as the recommendations which exist for supporting the design of sustainable, user-centered data search systems. While information-seeking in various settings has been well-researched within computer and information science, not much is known about human-centered data discovery, or how people discover, understand and interact with data that others create. This is particularly relevant given the ever-increasing amounts of data being produced and made available, and the creation of data-specific discovery tools and systems. This book examines how people find the data they need, which search strategies and tools they use, how they understand data, and how search systems can be better designed to meet people's needs.
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Information Cosmopolitics explores interaction between nationalist and information sharing practices in academic communities with a view to understanding the potential impacts of these interactions. This book is also a resounding critique of existing theories and methods as well as the launching point for the proposition of an alternate approach. Dominant approaches in the Information Behaviour (IB) field are investigated, as well as questions existing theoretical approaches to nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The concept of information cosmopolitics is introduced as an approach for tracing information practices and enabling research participants to perform their own narratives and positionings, and that the focus of information studies should be on tracing the continuous circulation of processes of individualisation and collectivization. * Provide an alternative to the dominant approaches in the field of Information Behaviour * Offers a novel theoretical model to trace information practices* Questions existing approaches to nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
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• Introduction
• Belkin Model
• Ingwersen Model
• Ellis Model
• Kuhlthau Model
• Wilson Model
• Dervin Model
• Byström Model
• Cruz Model
• References
• Index.

"In our lives, we need information continuously to carry out tasks of any kind (personal, academic, and professional). Depending on the context in which we find ourselves and the time available to carry out the task, emotions such as uncertainty and stress can present in the search process. But the important thing is that when we know the search process, the uncertainty and stress are minimized. In this context, the author investigates existing studies on the search and retrieval of information from the user's perspective. The study turned out to be very complex for two reasons: 1. Scientific literature is widely dispersed in different articles and academic books, even if it was the same search and information retrieval model. 2. Sources are not accessible to all people. As a consequence, the author plans to disseminate the results of this research with the aim of facilitating knowledge and understanding of anyone interested in entering the information search and retrieval process. With the collaboration of Nova Science Publishers, we find ourselves before an affordable, simple, and manageable book. Chapters 1 to 7 outline the search and information retrieval models of the following authors: Belkin, Ingwersen, Ellis, Kuhlthau, Wilson, Dervin, and Byström. In Chapter 8, the author presents her own model for searching and retrieving information. This model is formed by some elements previously seen from the other authors, but also by other novel ones such as the organisation. This is due to the fact that some of the tasks carried out with greater frequency and complexity are those that intervene in our professional tasks, in which scientific studies confirm that an effective organisation cannot be conceived without efficient information management"-- Provided by publisher.

In the literature of information science, a number of studies have been carried out attempting to model cognitive, affective, behavioral, and contextual factors associated with human information seeking and retrieval. On the other hand, only a few studies have addressed the exploration of creative thinking in music, focusing on understanding and describing individuals' information seeking behavior during the creative process. Trends in Music Information Seeking, Behavior, and Retrieval for Creativity connects theoretical concepts in information seeking and behavior to the music creative process. This publication presents new research, case studies, surveys, and theories related to various aspects of information retrieval and the information seeking behavior of diverse scholarly and professional music communities. Music professionals, theorists, researchers, and students will find this publication an essential resource for their professional and research needs.
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• Information as matters
• The informational milieu
• Information's modalities
• Too much information
• What information wants.

• Introduction: Pervasive Information Interactions Background: Information Interaction at the Crossroads of Research Traditions The Situations: Physical, Social and Temporal The Behaviors: Understanding the ""Information Journey"" The Technologies: Supporting the Information Journey Studying User Behaviors and Needs for Information Interaction Looking to the Future Further Reading.
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We live in an ""information age, "" but information is only useful when it is interpreted by people and applied in the context of their goals and activities. The volume of information to which people have access is growing at an incredible rate, vastly outstripping people's ability to assimilate and manage it. In order to design technologies that better support information work, it is necessary to better understand the details of that work. In this lecture, we review the situations (physical, social and temporal) in which people interact with information. We also discuss how people interact with information in terms of an ""information journey, "" in which people, iteratively, do the following: recognise a need for information, find information, interpret and evaluate that information in the context of their goals, and use the interpretation to support their broader activities. People's information needs may be explicit and clearly articulated but, conversely, may be tacit, exploratory and evolving. Widely used tools supporting information access, such as searching on the Web and in digital libraries, support clearly defined information requirements well, but they provide limited support for other information needs. Most other stages of the information journey are poorly supported at present. Novel design solutions are unlikely to be purely digital, but to exploit the rich variety of information resources, digital, physical and social, that are available. Theories of information interaction and sensemaking can highlight new design possibilities that augment human capabilities. We review relevant theories and findings for understanding information behaviours, and we review methods for evaluating information working tools, to both assess existing tools and identify requirements for the future.
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Much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990s internet has softened to a reasonable level, but the momentum of information growth continues unabated. Although this wealth of information provides resources for dealing with the problems posed by our increasingly complex world, the availability of more information does not guarantee that it can be successfully transformed into valuable knowledge that shapes, guides, and improves our lives. When we try to use traditional research models to analyse what people do to make sense of the huge amount of information available on the web, they tell us a lot about learning and performance with browser operations, but very little about how people will actively navigate and search through information structures, what information they will choose to consume, and what conceptual models they will form about the landscape of cyberspace. Thus, it is fortunate that there is a new field of research, Adaptive Information Interaction (AII), that centres on the problems of understanding and improving human-information interaction. All is about how people will best shape themselves to their information environments, and how information environments can best be shaped to people. Its roots lie in human-computer interaction (HCI), information retrieval, and the behavioural and social sciences. This book is about Information Foraging Theory (IFT), a new theory in Adaptive Information Interaction. Information Foraging Theory is one example of a recent flourish of theories in adaptationist psychology that draw upon evolutionary-ecology theory in biology. IFT assumes that people are ecologically rational, and that human information-seeking mechanisms and strategies adapt the structure of the information environments in which they operate. Its main aim is to create technology that is better shaped to users.
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• El método hermenéutico aplicado a los estudios de usuarios de la información / Juan Antonio Gómez García
• La detección de las necesidades de información a través de los estudios de demanda en las bibliotecas universitarias / Juan José Calva González
• Análisis de las preguntas frecuentes (FAQ's) como metodología para el estudio de las necesidades de información / Isabel Villaseñor Rodríguez
• Estudios de usuarios e investigación de mercadotecnia / Sueli do Amaral
• Análisis del perfil informativo de los agricultores de agave azul del municipio de Tequila, Jalisco / Armando Sánchez Soto
• Identificar las necesidades de información y comportamiento informativo de los enólogos y agrónomos de Viñedos Azteca / Amado Vilchis López
• Perfiles de investigación sobre necesidades de información en deportistas amateurs : los boxeadores / Salvador Enrique Vázquez Moctezuma
• Análisis de la búsqueda de información académica utilizando la Web 2.0, por los alumnos de la materia de ficología de la Carrera de Biología de la Facultad de Ciencias de la UNAM / Luis Alberto Fuentes Gatica
• Usuarios de los sistemas de información geográfica en México / Antonia Santos Rosas
• La investigación y enseñanza de posgrado sobre comportamiento informativo en Uruguay : avances en el período 2011-2012 / Martha Sabelli
• Los objetos de estudio de las investigaciones desarrolladas en la comunidad de docentes de nivel secundaria / Angélica Guevara Villanueva
• Racimo de recursos y fuentes de información en línea para los vitivinicultores / José Tomás Palacios Medellín.