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Information seeking in context, Tampere, Finland, 1996: Author index


Algon, Jacqueline. Classification of tasks, steps and information-related behaviour of individuals on project teams.

Allen, Bruce. Information needs: a person-in-situation approach

Ballesteros, Elissa R.—Harmon, E. Glynn & Ballesteros, Elissa R. Unconscious cognition: the elicitation of deeply embedded information needs.

Barnes, Deborah Manning, Spink, Amanda H. & Yeatts, Dale E. Effective information systems for high-performing, self-managed teams

Barry, Christine. Information-seeking in an advanced IT culture: a case study.

Bruce, Harry. A user oriented view of Internet as information infrastructure

Byström, Katriina. Municipal administrators at work—information needs and seeking (IN&S) in relation to task complexity: a case study amongst municipal officials.

Davenport, Elizabeth, Higgins, Martin & Somerville, Ian. The appropriation of home information systems in Scottish households.

Dervin, Brenda. Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast.

Erdelez, Sanda. Information encountering: a conceptual framework for accidental information discovery.

Gluck, Myke. Making sense of semiotics: privileging respondents in revealing contextual geographic syntactic and semantic codes.

Harmon, E. Glynn & Ballesteros, Elissa R. Unconscious cognition: the elicitation of deeply embedded information needs.

Higgins, Martin—Davenport, Elizabeth, Higgins, Martin & Somerville, Ian. The appropriation of home information systems in Scottish households.

Julien, Heidi. How career information helps adolescents' decision making

Kirk, Joyce. Managers' use of infomation: a grounded theory approach

Kuhlthau, Carol C. The influence of uncertainty on the information seeking behaviour of a securities analyst.

Leckie, Gloria J. & Pettigrew, Karen E. A general model of the information seeking of professionals: role theory through the back door?

Lievrouw, Leah A.—Sonnenwald, Diane H. & Lievrouw, Leah A. Collaboration during the design process: a case study of communication, information behaviour and project performance.

Limberg, Louise. Information use for learning purposes.

Loughridge, Brendan. Investigating the management information needs of heads of academic departments in universities in the United Kingdom: a critical success factors approach.

Malmsjö, Anders.—Information seeking behaviour and development of information systems: a contextual view

Pettigrew, Karen E.—Leckie, Gloria J. & Pettigrew, Karen E. A general model of the information seeking of professionals: role theory through the back door?

Schwabe, Gerhard. Citizenship information in Norway, Germany and from the European Commission: the need and its delivery.

Solomon, Paul. Information behaviour in sense making: a three-year case study of work planning

Somerville, Ian—Davenport, Elizabeth, Higgins, Martin & Somerville, Ian. The appropriation of home information systems in Scottish households.

Spink, Amanda H.—Barnes, Deborah Manning, Spink, Amanda H. & Yeatts, Dale E. Effective information systems for high-performing, self-managed teams

Talja, Sanna. Constituting 'information' and 'user' as research objects: a theory of knowledge formations as an alternative to the information-man theory.

Savolainen, Reijo—Tuominen, Kimmo & Savolainen, Reijo. A social constructionist approach to the study of information use as discursive action.

Sonnenwald, Diane H. & Lievrouw, Leah A. Collaboration during the design process: a case study of communication, information behaviour and project performance.

Todd, Ross. Information utilization: a cognitive analysis of how girls utilize drug information based on Brookes' fundamental equation (K(S) + ΔI = K(S + ΔS).

Tuominen, Kimmo & Savolainen, Reijo. A social constructionist approach to the study of information use as discursive action.

Vakkari, Pertti. Information seeking in context: a challenging metatheory.

Wang, Peiling. Users' information needs at different stages of a research project: a cognitive view.

Williamson, Kirsty. The information needs and information seeking behaviour of older adults: an Australian study.

Wilson, T.D. Information behaviour: an interdisciplinary perspective.

Yeatts, Dale E.—Barnes, Deborah Manning, Spink, Amanda H. & Yeatts, Dale E. Effective information systems for high-performing, self-managed teams


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