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The information culture and the development of personal information requirements

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This paper reviews the characteristics that determine the development of information requirements and search intentions among users from the viewpoint of the semantic information theory. The analysis of the impacts of factors, such as the library information environment and the information space outside libraries, on user search intentions is analyzed. The possible development of harmonious personal information requirements, which depends on the information culture, is demonstrated. The main component of the information culture is the information world view.

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Original Russian Text © N.G. Grabar, T.B. Sokolovskaya, 2014, published in Nauchno-Technicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 1, 2014, No. 4, pp. 1–8.

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Grabar, N.G., Sokolovskaya, T.B. The information culture and the development of personal information requirements. Sci. Tech.Inf. Proc. 41, 73–80 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0147688214020038

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