Users of Information Sources and Services

Users of Information Sources and Services

Study Cycle: 1

Lectures: 20

Seminars: 10

Tutorials: 0

ECTS credit: 3

Lecturer(s): prof. dr. Vilar Polona

• Information needs.
• Information behaviour and related areas (such as avoiding information, information poverty, information overload).
• Characteristics of information behaviour of different user groups according to various criteria, e.g.
• age,
• demographic characteristics (babies and toddlers, children, youth, pupils, students, employed, retired…),
• profession, role, discipline,
• special needs.
• Contexts of the information process.
• Information process.

Case, D.O., Given, L. (2016). Looking for information. Emerald. (vsakokratna najnovejša izdaja) COBISS.SI-ID - 63164258

Ford, N. (2015). Introduction to information behaviour. Facet. (vsakokratna najnovejša izdaja) COBISS.SI-ID - 58882658 + dostopno v: Zbirka podatkov: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

Bawden, D. in Robinson, L. (2022). Introduction to information science. Facet. (vsakokratna najnovejša izdaja) (relevantna poglavja) COBISS.SI-ID - 139918083

Relevant domestic and foreign literature.