Theories of Information Behavior presents authoritative overviews of more than 70 conceptual frameworks for understanding how people seek, manage, share, and use information in different contexts. a practical and readable reference to both well-established and newly proposed theories of information behavior, the book includes contributions from 85 scholars from ten countries. Each theory description covers origins, propositions, methodological implications, usage, links to related conceptual frameworks, and listings of authoritative primary and secondary references. The introductory chapters explain key concepts, theory-method connection, and the process of theory development.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Karen E. Fisher
Dr. Karen E. Fisher (nee Pettigrew) is an associate professor at the Information School of the University of Washington, USA, where she teaches information behavior, qualitative research methods, community analysis, and outcome-based evaluation. Her BA (English and Russian, 1989) is from Memorial University of Newfoundland, and her MLIS (1991) and PhD in library and information science (1998) from the University of Western Ontario. Her research addresses information behavior in everyday contexts (IBEC). The author of more than 50 articles and books, her current research in funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Science Foundation. She received the 1995 ALISE Jane Anne Hannigan Award, the 1999 ALISE Research Award, and the 2005 ALA Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research. She is a Member of several editorial boards as well as the Permanent Program Committee of the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference series, and is the 2004-05 chair of ASIST SIG USE.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lynne McKechnie
Dr. Lynne McKechnie is associate dean and an associate professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada where she teaches library services and literature for children and young adults, research methods, reference, and everyday life information behavior. She holds a BA )Anthropology, 1972) from the University of Manitoba, an MLS (1979) from the University of Toronto and A PhD (LIS 1996) from the University of Western Ontario. She has been the recipient of ALA's Baber Research Award (2003) ALISE Research Grant (1999), and a grant from the social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (1998--2002). Dr McKechnie has served as elected Treasurer of ALA's Library Research Round Table and is currently the editor of the Canadian Journal of Information and library Science and chair of the ALISE Research Committee.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sanda Erdelez
Dr. Sanda Erdelez is an associate professor at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the university of Missouri-Columbia, USA where she directs the Information Experience Laboratory for a study of information behavior in an electronic environment. Dr. Erdelez teaches human information behavior, research methods, business information resources, and online information searching. She obtained LLB (1982) and LLM (1986) from University of Osijek, Croatia; and PhD in Information Transfer (1995) from Syracuse University, where she studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Dr. Erdelez's research in accidental aspects of information behavior, especially information encountering (
www.infoencountering.com), has been funded by SBC Communication and Dell Inc. She is the 2003-2004 chair of ASIST SIG USE.
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