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In Search for Patterns of User Interaction for Digital Libraries

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003)

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The paper provides preliminary results from a major study of the academic and research libraries users in Slovakia. The study is part of a larger research project on interaction of man and information environment. The goal of the research is to identify patterns of interaction of individuals and groups with information resources, derive models and information styles. The methodological model for questionnaire survey of users is described. The first results confirm the need to support user strategies, collaboration, different stages of information seeking and knowledge states, closer links with learning and problem solving, easy and flexible access, human creative processes of analysis, synthesis, interpretation, and the need to develop new knowledge organization structures.

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  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia

    Jela Steinerová

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  1. NetLab, Knowledge Technologies Group, Lund University Libraries, P.O. Box 134, 22100, Lund, Sweden

    Traugott Koch

  2. Dept. of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,  

    Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg

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Steinerová, J. (2003). In Search for Patterns of User Interaction for Digital Libraries. In: Koch, T., Sølvberg, I.T. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_2

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