Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior

by Donald O. Case

Book Overview

"Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior" reviews more than 50 years of research on information seeking and related topics, and contains over 1,300... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780526547
• ISBN13: 9781780526546
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 491 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The Case Book is my research bible

I am a doctoral student in Information Science and reading the first edition of this book as a textbook in one of my MLS courses 4 years ago is what inspired me and motivated me to apply for a PhD program. I have read hundreds of books and thousands of articles in the field of User Studies and Information Seeking since then, but I keep coming back to this book again and again as it is like a refdesk full of information about all the major works in the field, and organized in a very easy-to-comprehend manner. I like the second edition even better on account of the added Glossary. Thank you, Dr. Case, for doing all the hard work to compile such an expansive literature review and a wonderful and thought-provoking introduction to the research in my field!

Good Book

I am using it in a graduate course I am taking and have found it to be very easy to read. It does a good job of describing the various theories concerning information seeking behavior and provides decent examples.

Great book

This book had all the information I needed. I am a graduate student working on a dissertation in health care, I found the background and theory very useful.

I have to disagree with a Reader from England...

I'm currently enrolled in a doctoral program in Information Science and, while this book isn't the sum total of all LIS knowledge, I've found it invaluable as a reference on Information Seeking. Few other places will you find this level of literature review laid out in such a compact way. I use it nearly every day in my studies and I'm grateful that Don Case wrote it. It's a roadmap and guidebook for my studies.- A reader from Texas