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Exploring the Contexts of Information Behaviour: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts
Edited by Thomas D. Wilson and David K. Allen Sheffield
1998
625pp.
ISBN 0947568751
L(English Pound)65.00
Keywords User studies, Library users
As the title suggests this book reports the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Seeking in Context (ISIC2). It contains 42 papers arranged in seven sections: keynote papers; theoretical perspectives; health service contexts; everyday life; work environment; organisation of information in context; information systems perspective. These headings are a post-conference rationalisation of the material for publication, not those of the conference sessions themselves.
The key word here is contexts, meaning the study of information seeking in real world environments. The aim of the conference was to aid the escape from a cycle of iterative empirical studies and to move...