In the computer age, it is essential for individuals to develop skills and strategies for manipulating, storing, and retrieving electronic information. This book considers how electronic technologies have changed these skills and strategies and augmented the fundamental human activity of information seeking. Writing from the point of view of the user rather than the computer, the author makes a case for creating new interface designs that allow information seekers to choose what strategy to apply according to their immediate needs. Such systems may be designed by providing information seekers with alternative interface mechanisms for displaying and manipulating multiple levels of representation for information objects. This book is multidisciplinary in approach and aims to bridge the perspectives of information science, computer science and education. It will be essential reading for researchers and graduate students in these fields.
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"...a thought-provoking and in-depth examination of information seeking in electronic environments....a worthwhile purchase for anyone interested in an in-depth review and study of information seeking behaviors and how they have changed in, and because of, electronic environments. It would be an excellent auxiliary textbook for any course concerned with human-computer interaction in library science or computer science." Kathleen Fleming, Resource Sharing and Information Networks
"The book largely succeeds in its purposes. It is well written and makes good use of the literature...The structure of the book and the flow of ideas are logical and coherent, and researchers and practitioners in information retrieval will find it useful...this book provides a useful and timely contribution to the literature." S. Smithson, Computing Reviews
"...a welcome and needed addition to the information science literature...a well-written text on information seeking that is easily accessible by a broad audience...a great place to start building understanding of the information seeking process." Janette R. Hill, Journal of the American Society for Information Science
"Very timely...a requirement for every undergraduate computer science and information science library." J. Beidler, Choice
"Marchionini's book is interesting and thought provoking....It is very likely to become a text for library and information sciences seminars in information retrieval; it should be read by those in academic health sciences center libraries and hospital libraries who have responsibility for (or a personal interest in) education for information management and information retrieval from or in electronic settings." Ellen Gay Detlefsen, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
"This book is recommended reading for graduate students in library information science as well as researchers and parctitioners. It provides a valuable, thoughful discussion of an important topic for all those concerened with developing information systems for addressing information seeking rather than information retrieval." Carol C, Kuhlthau, The Library Quarterly
"This book achieves some understanding of the differences in the way people search for information and the way various searching software facilitates this....is academically written....is recommended for those designing search software, and will be useful, though not instructive, for academic libraries and those who instruct clients in the process of seeking information in electronic environments." Public Library Quarterly
"The book largely succeeds in its purposes. It is well written and makes good use of the literature...The structure of the book and the flow of ideas are logical and coherent, and researchers and practitioners in information retrieval will find it useful...this book provides a useful and timely contribution to the literature." S. Smithson, Computing Reviews
"...a welcome and needed addition to the information science literature...a well-written text on information seeking that is easily accessible by a broad audience...a great place to start building understanding of the information seeking process." Janette R. Hill, Journal of the American Society for Information Science
"Very timely...a requirement for every undergraduate computer science and information science library." J. Beidler, Choice
"Marchionini's book is interesting and thought provoking....It is very likely to become a text for library and information sciences seminars in information retrieval; it should be read by those in academic health sciences center libraries and hospital libraries who have responsibility for (or a personal interest in) education for information management and information retrieval from or in electronic settings." Ellen Gay Detlefsen, Bulletin of the Medical Library Association
"This book is recommended reading for graduate students in library information science as well as researchers and parctitioners. It provides a valuable, thoughful discussion of an important topic for all those concerened with developing information systems for addressing information seeking rather than information retrieval." Carol C, Kuhlthau, The Library Quarterly
"This book achieves some understanding of the differences in the way people search for information and the way various searching software facilitates this....is academically written....is recommended for those designing search software, and will be useful, though not instructive, for academic libraries and those who instruct clients in the process of seeking information in electronic environments." Public Library Quarterly
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Information Seeking in Electronic Environments provides a theory of how people seek information and how technology has begun to augment how they are able to do so. It provides guidance to researchers and students who apply computing to problems in information retrieval and learning, and to designers who invent interfaces for retrieval systems.
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Ok, it's a required textbook for SJSU/SLIS.....when I finished I added it to the Library's collection for other students to use. It's used a lot!
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This is a very well-explicated book on humans' information-seeking strategies. Dr. Marchionini gives a very comprehensive view of this process that includes many enlightening ideas on how our strategies have co-evolved with the progress of information systems, and how they are interleaved with learning and other cognitive processes. I am a researcher in this field and I find this book extremely valuable as the author explains everything in jargon-free language with examples to support his arguments. Although this book was published in 1995, it is still very relevant now in 2009. I would recommend that the author revise the book in order to expand it and include some of the new social networking technologies that have had a significant impact on information-seeking in electronic environments.
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Our world continues to become increasingly complex, interconnected, and dynamic: exchange; and the rates of change continue to grow, largely because of the developments in technology and the importance of information to human and technical development.. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
personal information infrastructures, noumenal clouds, analytical search strategies, scanning tactics, browsing strategies, online bibliographic systems, electronic search systems, information seekers, manual environments, professional intermediaries, electronic retrieval systems, building blocks strategy, browsing strategy, seeking progresses, query formulation, previous computer experience, electronic environments, electronic encyclopedias, information retrieval techniques, relevance feedback, linear scanning, relevance judgments, string search, analytical strategies, connect charges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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personal information infrastructures, noumenal clouds, analytical search strategies, scanning tactics, browsing strategies, online bibliographic systems, electronic search systems, information seekers, manual environments, professional intermediaries, electronic retrieval systems, building blocks strategy, browsing strategy, seeking progresses, query formulation, previous computer experience, electronic environments, electronic encyclopedias, information retrieval techniques, relevance feedback, linear scanning, relevance judgments, string search, analytical strategies, connect charges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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