Journal of Documentation: Volume 63 Issue 1

Can two established information models explain the information behaviour of visually impaired people seeking health and social care information?

C.A. Beverley, P.A. Bath, R. Barber

The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which two existing models of information behaviour could explain the information behaviour of visually impaired people…

Knowledge of information behaviour and its relevance to the design of people‐centred information products and services

Mark Hepworth

The purpose of this paper is first to highlight some of the social phenomena that are driving the design of people‐centred information solutions; second, to develop a broad…

A grounded theory model of on‐duty critical care nurses' information behavior: The patient‐chart cycle of informative interactions

Michelynn McKnight

Critical care nurses' work is rich in informative interactions. Although there have been post‐hoc self report studies of nurses' information seeking, there have been no…

What is enough? Satisficing information needs

Chandra Prabha, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Lawrence Olszewski, Lillie R. Jenkins

This paper seeks to understand how users know when to stop searching for more information when the information space is so saturated that there is no certainty that the relevant…

Purls of wisdom: A collectivist study of human information behaviour in a public library knitting group

Elena Prigoda, Pamela J. McKenzie

The authors aim to apply a collectivist theoretical framework to the study of human information behaviour and the construction of meaning in a knitting group held in a branch of a…

Affordance theory: a framework for graduate students' information behavior

Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler, Lisa M. Given

This study seeks to apply ecological psychology's concept of “affordance” to graduate students' information behavior in the academic library, and to explore the extent to which…

Information creation and the notion of membership

Ciaran B. Trace

This article aims to examine a particular sub‐set of human information behavior that has been largely overlooked in the library and information science (LIS) literature; how…

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh

Human information behavior special issue

Amanda Spink, Allen Foster