General description

The course focuses on work-related information practices such as information seeking, information sharing and personal information management. The main characteristics of work-related information practices in the contexts of work task performance and studying.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course a student is expected to be able to:

-critically assess the strenghts and weaknesses of the models of information seeking, information use, information sharing and personal information management in work-related contexts
-apply such models in research work related to the master thesis in particular.

Contents

Information needs, information seeking, information use, information sharing and personal information management in work-related contexts.

Evaluation

Study materials

• Case, Looking for information. A survey of research on information needs, seeking and behavior. 3rd revised ed. Emerald. (forthcoming, August 2012)
• Kuhlthau, Seeking meaning. 2nd ed. Libraries Unlimited. 2004.
• Pauleen & Gorman (Eds), Personal information management. Individual, organizational and social perspectives. Gower. 2011.
  

Belongs to following study modules

2013–2014

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

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