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Personal anticipated information need

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Bates has described the inclination of individuals to carve out a subset of the information world in a personal information collection through the metaphor of farming ( Bates 2001 ). Research by Whittaker and Hirschberg ( 2001 ) that observed people during an office move illustrates this point.

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Towards a Theory of Digital Literacy: Three Scenarios for the Next Steps

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1997 ; Lanham, 1995; Pool, 1997 ), which is presented as a special kind of mindset that enables users to perform intuitively in digital environments, and to easily and effectively access the wide range of knowledge embedded in these environments ( Gilster, 1997 ; Tapscott, 1998 ; Eshet-Alkalai, 2004 ; 2005 ). Spiro et al.

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Toward An Integrated Model of Information Seeking and Searching

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of Information Studies. In information studies currently, there is a burst of exciting work being done on information seeking in a social and cultural context. Studying something from a natural science point of view does not automatically mean that one is claiming that only the natural science matters or can teach us something.

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