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Information Organising Behaviours in Everyday Life: An Exploration Using Diaries

Information Organising Behaviours in Everyday Life: An Exploration Using Diaries

Bhuva Narayan
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 21
ISBN13: 9781466651586|ISBN10: 146665158X|EISBN13: 9781466651593
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5158-6.ch003
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Narayan, Bhuva. "Information Organising Behaviours in Everyday Life: An Exploration Using Diaries." Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice, edited by Jia Tina Du, et al., IGI Global, 2014, pp. 24-44. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5158-6.ch003

APA

Narayan, B. (2014). Information Organising Behaviours in Everyday Life: An Exploration Using Diaries. In J. Du, Q. Zhu, & A. Koronios (Eds.), Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice (pp. 24-44). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5158-6.ch003

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Narayan, Bhuva. "Information Organising Behaviours in Everyday Life: An Exploration Using Diaries." In Library and Information Science Research in Asia-Oceania: Theory and Practice, edited by Jia Tina Du, Qinghua Zhu, and Andy Koronios, 24-44. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5158-6.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter discusses people’s everyday encounters with information and the difficulties they face in finding information within both personal and professional contexts, with a specific focus on information-organisation-related behaviours in everyday-life, and based on a diary study where participants maintained an information journal. The discussion is based on the literature along with selected findings from a larger empirical study of human information behaviours, which found that information-organisation-related behaviours (including the lack of it) in everyday life is a problematic area due to various factors. The factors include problems with knowledge representation and inter-subjectivity, along with spatiotemporal dimensions that give rise to intra-subjectivity in our minds. These factors have implications on the findability of information and also on personal information management.

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