How libraries, internet browsers, and other sources help: A comparison of sense-making evaluations of sources used in recent college/university and personal life situations by faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate users
✍ Scribed by Brenda Dervin; CarrieLynn D. Reinhard; Zack Y. Kerr; Lynn Silipigni Connaway; Chandra Prabha; Lorraine Normore; Mei Song; Elizabeth Kelley; Sarah Adamson; Teena Berberick; Kasey Martini; Noelle Karnolt
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 28 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0044-7870
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
PURPOSE
Dervin's Sense-Making Methodology meta-theory posits that information and the sources/channels from which inputs are obtained are but means to life-facing ends --that source-usings and evaluatings are constantly in flux. Any situation which is described by experts as an "information seeking situation" is usually comprised of many steps and micro-moments of encounters and evaluations. While traditionally the user has been seen as the focal unit of our attentions, in actuality the encountering moment may be more heuristically useful 1 .
Our purpose is to take a methodologically innovative look at how users see sources of input helping them in their sense-making situations. Our working hypothesis is that users