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Peer reviewedDervin, Brenda – Information Processing & Management, 1999
Explores the implications of articulating the bridges that are built, usually implicitly, between metatheory and method, and between these and their ultimate interests, the doing of research; the purpose is to articulate the uses of methodology. Suggests that there is lacking a vocabulary for talking about methodology which attends to the…
Descriptors: Information Science, Information Seeking, Information Theory, Information Utilization
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; And Others – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1991
Presents a synopsis of the results of the first phase of a study project sponsored by the National Science Foundation that examined trends, opportunities, and problems in the dissemination of scientific and technical information in the United States. Findings that are summarized concern the use of information, information technologies, and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Databases, Engineers, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedLundu, Maurice C. – Information Processing and Management, 1985
Analyzes and applies Bettman's information processing theory of consumer choice to information processing, evaluation, and utilization by academic libraries in Zambia to support research and development activities. Certain Zambian cultural and sociopsychological aspects and attitudes that could affect the evaluation and utilization of information…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Developing Nations, Environmental Influences, Futures (of Society)
Download full textFoucar-Szocki, Diane; Erno, Susan; Dilley, Sarah; Grant, Suzanne Poore; Hildebrandt, Nancy; Leonard, Mimi Stout; Smith, Greg – 1997
A study examined the extent to which Virginia Professional Development System (VPDS) components met practitioner needs and the degree to which they constituted an inquiry-based professional development system. Interviews with over 50 Virginia Institute for Lifelong Learning (VAILL) participants focused on their use of the Centers for Professional…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Adult Education, Adult Educators
