Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 440 pages
- Published by: Academic Press
- Edition: 2nd Edition December 12, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0123694302
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0123694300
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
"Â…an excellent, long-needed text. Nothing quite like it is availableÂ…this will become the standard work in the area"
Â-T.D. Wilson, Emeritus, University of Sheffield, U.K.
"Â…an ambitious bookÂ…particularly welcome as an academic textbookÂ…a wealth of concrete examples of information seeking in everyday contextsÂ…"
Â-Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
"A welcome and ambitious book that should be received with open armsÂ…clear and readableÂ…highly accessibleÂ…cannot be overlookedÂ…"
Â-Information Research
“…an especially useful source, assembling and framing user-centered studies…Case has performed a significant service for students and researchers…”
Â-Journal of the Medical Library Association
“…It should appear on reading lists and bookshelves across a number of academic fields.”
Â-FIRST MONDAY.com --
Review"an ambitious bookparticularly welcome as an academic textbooka wealth of concrete examples of information seeking in everyday contexts" --
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology"an especially useful source, assembling and framing user-centered studiesCase has performed a significant service for students and researchers" --
Journal of the Medical Library Association"an excellent, long-needed text. Nothing quite like it is availablethis will become the standard work in the area" --
T.D. Wilson, Emeritus, University of Sheffield, U.K."an excellent, long-needed text. Nothing quite like it is availablethis will become the standard work in the area"
T.D. Wilson, Emeritus, University of Sheffield, U.K.
"an ambitious bookparticularly welcome as an academic textbooka wealth of concrete examples of information seeking in everyday contexts"
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
"A welcome and ambitious book that should be received with open armsclear and readablehighly accessiblecannot be overlooked"
Information Research
"an especially useful source, assembling and framing user-centered studiesCase has performed a significant service for students and researchers"
Journal of the Medical Library Association
"It should appear on reading lists and bookshelves across a number of academic fields."
FIRST MONDAY.com --T.D. Wilson, Emeritus, University of Sheffield, U.K.<
"A welcome and ambitious book that should be received with open armsclear and readablehighly accessiblecannot be overlooked" --
Information Research
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Product Review
Some reviews of the first edition:
"an ambitious bookparticularly welcome as an academic textbooka wealth of concrete examples of information seeking in everyday contexts"
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
"A welcome and ambitious book that should be received with open armsclear and readablehighly accessiblecannot be overlooked"
Information Research
"an especially useful source, assembling and framing user-centered studiesCase has performed a significant service for students and researchers"
Journal of the Medical Library Association
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior (Library and Information Science) (Library and Information Science) (Library and Information Science) (Hardcover)
As a graduate student in Library and Information Studies, I was assigned this book in one of my courses. As textbooks in this field go, Case's book is more readable than most. As mentioned by an earlier reviewer, it is an in-depth literature review, and since it is for one of the required courses which had to be taken early on, it will be a useful reference in future classes. In fact, it is a book that I will retain simply as a source of information on possible research material. The book is well organized and frankly, is one of the nicest as far as materials and construction. The questions at the back of the book, supposedly relating to each chapter, were confusing in that there seemed to be no relationship in many instances. The one serious complaint that I can make is the tremendous need for editing and proofreading in this edition. The book is replete with incorrect grammar, misspellings, missing words, extra words, etc. Hopefully, these will be corrected in the new edition.
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