AUTHOR: Donald O. Case
STARTED: Do not recall
FINISHED: November 16, 2009
PAGES: 423
GENRE: Library Science
FIRST SENTENCE: Looking for Information explores human information seeking and use.
SUMMARY: [From barnesandnoble.com] Looking for Information explores human information seeking and use. It provides examples of methods, models and theories used in information behavior research, and reviews more than four decades of research on the topic. The book should prove useful for scholars in related fields, but also for students at the graduate and advanced undergraduate levels. It is intended for use not only in information studies and communication, but also in the disciplines of education, management, business, medicine, nursing, public health, and social work.
THOUGHTS: Chapters or this book were incredible interesting and others were mind-numbingly dull. That is what I get for taking a class about user studies. Apparently I like definitions, theories, and flow-charts... but not so much with the breaking down of actual case studies. I'd rather read the actual case study than run through page after page after page (after page) of summaries of case studies. So, more with the actual theory and history, less with the examples.
RATING: 5/10 [Meh.]
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