Description:
Behavior vis-a-vis information as it bears on problems in library and information services and forms a theoretical and professional base for such services. Diverse contexts of information behavior; processes of information seeking, searching, using, and valuing. Assessment of studies of human information behavior in terms of relevance to library and information services.
Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand human information behavior, library and information science and the relationship between the two.
- Read about, discuss and write about information behavior.
- Recognize the differences between professional and scholarly literature.
- Identify information behavior in all aspects of life.
- Record, analyze and conceptualize information behavior in professional settings.
- Analyze specific research findings about information behavior in a variety of different contexts.
- Facilitate the pursuit of a variety of information behaviors as an information professional.
- Approach issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.