Assessing Information Needs (Aslib Know How Guides)

✍ Scribed by David Nicholas

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 177
Edition: 2nd
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Provides a systematic method of identifying, evaluating and comparing information needs, as well as a framework to enable information services to gather information from users to aid information system design, and monitor the effectiveness of an information service. Examines the role of the Internet in meeting information needs.The section on collecting data now includes web log analysis and focus group interviews. Introduces the concept of the I-player, the digital information user.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Note to Second Edition......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Why undertake information needs assessments?......Page 17
What are information needs?......Page 32
A framework for evaluating information needs......Page 49
Factors involved in the meeting of information need......Page 105
Collecting the data......Page 123
Conclusion......Page 164
References and selected bibliography......Page 168

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