[.ca] Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on ... (ISBN 012150381X)

The case of a failed survey mission....:
I was excited by the possibility of a suitable overview of information seeking, I obtained the book a.s.a.p. I was willing to forgive the high price in favour of a good text. It was downhill from there: Unfortunately the text of Donald Case's book fails to impress on any level. For the scope of the subject matter the book is surprising in the selection of items included and omitted. With some areas appearing rather bald in references and general coverage. By giving focus to a selection of models that embrace need and sources, and in different aspects e.g. information overload, the portrait is skewed. To use this book in teaching it would require much more support from supplementary texts and journal articles to correct the omissions. I cannot recommend this text to students nor to academics seeking a suitable class text.

Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information:
%This is a graduate textbook and handbook for scholars in information behavior research. It defines concepts relevant to information behavior, identifies models and theories used in information seeking studies, provides examples of methods for studying information seeking, reviews research findings of the past two decades, and suggests some directions for seeking more information and information seeking.

I have to disagree with a Reader from England...:
I'm currently enrolled in a doctoral program in Information Science and, while this book isn't the sum total of all LIS knowledge, I've found it invaluable as a reference on Information Seeking. Few other places will you find this level of literature review laid out in such a compact way. I use it nearly every day in my studies and I'm grateful that Don Case wrote it. It's a roadmap and guidebook for my studies. - A reader from Texas