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User Information Seeking Patterns:Retracing Ranganathan to Some Noetic Perceptions


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1 Dept. of Library and Information Science & Officer in Charge, IT Centre. Bangalore University, Bangalore – 560056., India
 

The studies on user information seeking patterns have been undertaken since long time and are continuing with contemporary developments in LIS. The change is visualised as user demand has moved from books to to specific information. The information seeking underlies search process and has now been influenced by the application of IT to library resources and services. Ranganathan from his very first book 'Five Laws' considered “Reader” (user) as one of the components of the trinity. Similarly he perceived information seeking patterns of users in the design of tools and techniques like long range reference, chain indexing, documentation and so on and also now their applications are being retraced in the IT application environment. So an examination of these tools and techniques is presented in this paper to present a new vision to Ranganathan's classic contributions.
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A. Y. Asundi
Dept. of Library and Information Science & Officer in Charge, IT Centre. Bangalore University, Bangalore – 560056., India

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The studies on user information seeking patterns have been undertaken since long time and are continuing with contemporary developments in LIS. The change is visualised as user demand has moved from books to to specific information. The information seeking underlies search process and has now been influenced by the application of IT to library resources and services. Ranganathan from his very first book 'Five Laws' considered “Reader” (user) as one of the components of the trinity. Similarly he perceived information seeking patterns of users in the design of tools and techniques like long range reference, chain indexing, documentation and so on and also now their applications are being retraced in the IT application environment. So an examination of these tools and techniques is presented in this paper to present a new vision to Ranganathan's classic contributions.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.32344/jld%2Fv3%2Fi2%2F2017%2F23-29