a) Information practices b) Information retrieval systems c) Interactive information retrieval d) Task-based information retrieval
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Study materials
a) Information practices Literary exam: - Case, Looking for information. A survey of research on information needs, seeking and behavior. 3rd revised ed. Emerald 2012. - Pauleen & Gorman (Eds), Personal knowledge management. Individual, organizational and social perspectives. Gower 2011. - Savolainen, Everyday information practices. Scarecrow 2008.
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b) Information retrieval systems - Baeza-Yates, R &Ribeiro-Neto, B. (2011). Modern Information Retrieval: The concepts and technology behind search. 2nd ed. New York, Addison-Wesley.Please contact the teacher for more instructions.
c) Interactive information retrieval - Xie, I. (2008). Interactive Information Retrieval in Digital Environments. Hershey, IGI Publishing. - White, R. &Roth, R. (2009). Exploratory search: Beyond the Query-Response Paradigm. Morgan &Claypool. - Kelly, D. (2009).Methods for evaluating interactive information retrieval systems with users. Foundations and Trendsin Information Retrieval 3(2009), 1–224. URL: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.174.8814&rep=rep1&type=pdf
d) Task-based information retrieval - Ingwersen, P. & Järvelin, K. The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context. Springer 2005. - articles from the reading list.