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Information encountering: a conceptual framework for accidental information discovery
Sanda Erdelez
- pp 412-421
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The article was published on 1997-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 240 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information discovery & Conceptual framework.read more
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A model of information practices in accounts of everyday‐life information seeking
TL;DR: The model is derived from a constructionist discourse analysis of individuals’ accounts of everyday life information seeking and proposes that a focus on the social concept of information practices is more appropriate to everydaylife information seeking than the psychological concept of Information behaviour.
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Serendipity and information seeking: an empirical study
Allen Foster,Nigel Ford +1 more
TL;DR: The notion of serendipity is reinterprets as a phenomenon arising from both conditions and strategies – as both a purposive and a non‐purposive component of information seeking and related knowledge acquisition.
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Information grounds and the use of need-based services by immigrants in Queens, New York: a context-based, outcome evaluation approach
TL;DR: It is concluded that successful introduction to the QBPL-as per its mission, programming, and staff-can lead immigrants to a synergistic information ground that can help in meeting broad psychological, social, and practical needs.
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Waiting for chiropody: contextual results from an ethnographic study of the information behaviour among attendees at community clinics
TL;DR: Findings from a recent field study in which ethnographic methods and social network theory are used to investigate the flow of human services information among nurses, the elderly and other individuals at community-based foot clinics are illustrated.
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Five personality dimensions and their influence on information behaviour
TL;DR: It is concluded that inner traits interact with contextual factors in their final impact on information behaviour, and that information behaviour could be connected to all the personality dimensions tested in the study.