Information Problem Solving: A Wider View of Library Skills

Moore, Penny

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“…A more fruitful approach might be to regularly gain access to new information. This approach requires people to identify their information needs, locate corresponding information sources, extract and organize relevant information from each source, and synthesize information from a variety of sources into cogent, productive uses (Bawden, 2001;Eisenberg & Berkowitz, 1990, 1992Marchionini, 1999;Moore, 1995Moore, , 1997Shapiro & Hughes, 1996;Spitzer, 2000). Together these activities constitute a process that we refer to as InformationProblem Solving (IPS).…”

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“…Defining the information problem is important in order to get a clear insight into the problem (e.g. Hill,1999;Land & Greene, 2000;Moore, 1995). Rita asks herself the following questions:…”

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“…What knowledge do I already have on one (or all) of these subjects? This activation of prior knowledge helps Rita to integrate the new information found with old, known, information Hill, 1999;Moore, 1995). Next, Rita should also pay attention to the task requirements, for instance is there a minimum or maximum number of pages specified for the essay, and what is the target audience?…”

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Information-problem solving: A review of problems students encounter and instructional solutions

Walraven

Brand‐Gruwel

Boshuizen

2008

Computers in Human Behavior

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Searching and processing information is a complex cognitive process that requires students to identify information needs, locate corresponding information sources, extract and organize relevant information from each source, and synthesize information from a variety of sources.This process is called information-problem solving (IPS). IPS can be characterized as a complex cognitive skill, which may need direct instruction to reach high levels of performance. However, IPS has been given little attention in schools, and instruction in this skill is rarely embedded in curricula. And yet, by giving students assignments in which students have to solve an information-based problem, teachers assume that their pupils have developed this skill naturally.A literature study was done to determine what kinds of problems students experience when solving information problems using the WWW for searching information, and what kind of instructional support can help to solve these problems. Results show that children, teenagers and adults have trouble with specifying search terms, judging search results and judging source and information. Regulating the search process is also problematic. Instruction designed specifically for IPS using the WWW for searching information is rare but indeed addresses the problematic skills. However, there are differences between various methods and it is unclear which method is most effective for specific age groups. Information Problem Solving 3 Information Problem Solving: A Review of Problems Students Encounter and Instructional SolutionsOur current society is an information society. Recent technological developments such as mobile communication, GPS, and the Internet provide us with large bodies of information every day. It is up to us to decide what to do with all this information. One could decide to ignore it altogether, but this will almost certainly result in alienation from society. A more fruitful approach might be to regularly gain access to new information. This approach requires people to identify their information needs, locate corresponding information sources, extract and organize relevant information from each source, and synthesize information from a variety of sources into cogent, productive uses (Bawden, 2001;Eisenberg & Berkowitz, 1990, 1992Marchionini, 1999;Moore, 1995Moore, , 1997Shapiro & Hughes, 1996;Spitzer, 2000). Together these activities constitute a process that we refer to as InformationProblem Solving (IPS).IPS is not only important in everyday life, but also in education. In the last decade educational systems have undergone changes. Instead of a system aiming at the reproduction of knowledge, new learning is aiming at learning outcomes that are durable, flexible, functional, meaningful, and applicable. Active pedagogical methods, in which students learn by doing instead of listening and in which the teacher has a guiding role, fit this new learning (Simons, Van der Linden, & Duffy, 2000). Students are given assignments, such as writing an essay on Tibet, that ...

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“…Defining the information problem is important in order to get a clear insight into the problem (e.g. Hill,1999;Land & Greene, 2000;Moore, 1995). Rita asks herself the following questions:…”

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Information-problem solving: A review of problems students encounter and instructional solutions

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2008

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“…There is a limited but growing literature on how readers identify and select books at the shelves. Research on children [29,30] notes that they focus on eye-level shelves, and that shelf order affects the books they select. Adults are also affected by shelf height, though less than children are [7].…”

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Tyranny of Distance: Understanding Academic Library Browsing by Refining the Neighbour Effect

McKay

Buchanan

Chang

2015

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

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Browsing is a part of book seeking that is important to readers, poorly understood, and ill supported in digital libraries. In earlier work, we attempted to understand the impact of browsing on book borrowing by examining whether books near other loaned books were more likely to be loaned themselves, a phenomenon we termed the neighbour effect. In this paper we further examine the neighbour effect, looking specifically at size, interaction with search and topic boundaries, increasing our understanding of browsing behaviour.

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“…Studies of children's book selection practices are more common than those of adults: Reutzel and Gali [20] followed a number of children through the process of checking out library books, and noted that children were more likely to choose books from eye-level, tended to make judgments based on color, and that while they occasionally flipped through books, they rarely made decisions on the basis of content. Moore [18] witnessed children choosing the first book on any shelf related to their topic, as opposed to browsing to select the most appropriate volume for their needs.…”

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An Exploration of ebook Selection Behavior in Academic Library Collections

McKay

Hinze

Heese

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Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries

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Abstract. Academic libraries have offered ebooks for some time, however little is known about how readers interact with them while making relevance decisions. In this paper we seek to address that gap by analyzing ebook transaction logs for books in a university library.Keywords: ebooks, log analysis, book selection, HCI, information behavior IntroductionConsider the process of borrowing a book from a library (digital or physical): the reader searches or browses the collection to identify candidate books that are potentially relevant; they each candidate book to assess its actual relevance; and they borrow those books deemed relevant to explore them more depth at a later date. Of course, finding a useful book is rarely so straightforward: these stages may be sequential or interleaved. In this paper, we consider a specific aspect of this process: the examination of a candidate book after the candidate has been identified in the library collection; we focus specifically on ebooks. How a reader explores physical books when making relevance decisions-which parts of books are viewed, how quickly, in what orderhas been relatively neglected [8], likely because such a study in a physical domain would be intrusive and 'creepy' [16]. To our knowledge this aspect of ebook selection has also not been explored, surprisingly, given that the availability of ebook transaction logs allows such a study to be conducted post hoc so as to avoid disturbing the experience of those using an ebook collection. This paper describes exactly such a study based on the transaction logs of a university library ebook collection.In Section 2 of this paper we explore the previous research on ebook usage and book selection (both physical and electronic); in Section 3 we describe the ebook collection on which our study is based and gives details of the log sample we analyzed. Section 4 presents the results of our analysis, including which parts of the

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