INST 352 Lecture 5: INST352 Lecture 5: Information in a library
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In the widespread literature that could be included under the rubric of information behavior, there is a genre of empirical work that is larger than any other: studies of people finding information in libraries. Many of the publications in this genre focus on information as a thing (buckland, 1991a), that is, use of books, journals, and other packages of information. Over the past 30 years, however, more and more studies focus on searching for, evaluating and applying digital texts. Today, research on digital resources and ways of interacting with libraries online even without ever setting foot in a library are common. However, people"s use of physical materials and of the library as a physical space remain important areas of information behavior research. So let us imagine another information seeker, this one called leslie. Leslie is writing a paper for her undergraduate history class on the 1898 war between spain and the united states.