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Concepts of information societies, cultural assumptions and government information policies: A case study on the USA
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An investigation into information needs and seeking of school teachers teaching cultural heritage courses in Taiwan
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Information acquiring in leisure activities: Backpackers’ search for tourist information
No full textInformation and the life-worlds of senior citizens in a residential home: A case study of Taipei City Chao-Ju Senior Citizen Home
No full textRelating Information Uses to Information Needs in Specific Contexts:What’s in the Literature and What’s Missing﹖
No full textInformation Research in Leisure: Implications from an Empirical Study of Backpackers
No full textIn the modern, increasingly flat world, many individuals have seen
an increase in the amount of leisure time they have available. This
leisure time is used for different purposes, often including travel
and tourism. Among the many types of travel and tourism, backpack
or budget travelling is becoming more and more popular. This
increasingly common leisure activity presumably involves intensive
information search activities.
This study places the backpackers’ search for travel information
in an everyday life information seeking (ELIS) perspective. The
search for information by backpackers can be seen as a three-stage
information search process. In each stage, depending on the type
of task, backpackers use various information resources for different
purposes. Such sources may be used for more than one purpose and
in more than one information search stage. However, their relative
importance varies depending on the characteristics of the source of
information and the information search stage in which the source
is being used.
In this article I suggest that studies of leisure information behaviors
and leisure activities show theoretical and practical value for
both the information seeking public and the information science
community. We also suggest that library and information science
scholars and practice communities direct attention and research
resources to leisure research in general, and the concept of serious
leisure and its structured information acquisition and sharing activities
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