Theories of information behavior / edited by Karen E. Fisher, Sanda Erdelez, and Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Affective load / by Diane Nahl -- Anomalous state of knowledge by Nicholas J. Belkin -- Archival Intelligence by Elizabeth Yakel -- Bandura\'s social cognition by Makiko Miwa -- Berrypicking by Marcia J. Bates -- Big6 skills for information literacy by Carrie A. Lowe & Michael B. Eisenberg -- Chang\'s browsing by Shan-Ju L. Chang -- Chatman\'s information poverty by Julie Hersberger -- Chatman\'s life in the round by Crystal Fulton -- Cognitive authority by So Young Reih -- Cognitive work analysis by Raya Fidel & Annelise Mark Pejtersen -- Collective action dilemma by Marc Smith & Howard T. Wesler -- Communicative action by Gerald Benoi^t -- Communities of practice by Elisabeth Davies -- Cultural models of Hall and Hofstede by Anita Komlodi -- Dervin\'s sense-making by Tonyia J. Tidline -- Diffusion theory by Darian Lajoie-Paquette -- The domain analytic approach to scholars\' information practices by Sanna Talja -- Ecological model of human information behavior by Kirsty Williamson -- Elicitation as micro level information seeking by Mei-Mei Wu -- Ellis\'s model of information seeking behavior by David Ellis -- Everyday life information seeking by Reijo Savolainen -- Face threat by Lorri Mon -- Flow theory by Charles Naumer -- General model of the information seeking of professionals by Gloria J. Leckie -- The imposed query by Melissa Gross -- Information acquiring-and-sharing by Kevin Rioux -- Information activities in work tasks by Katriina Bystro·m -- Information encountering by Sanda Erdelez -- Information grounds by Karen Fisher -- Information horizons by Diane H. Sonnenwald -- Information intents by Ross J. Todd -- Information interchange by Rita Marcella & Graeme Baxter -- Institutional ethnography by Roz Stooke -- Integrative framework for information seeking and interactive information retrieval by Peter Ingwersen -- Interpretative repertoires by Pamela J. McKenzie -- Krikelas\'s model of information seeking by Jean Henefer & Crystal Fulton -- Kuhlthau\'s information search process by Wendy Holliday & Donghua Tao -- Library anxiety by Patricia Katopol -- Monitoring and blunting by Lynda M. Baker -- Motivational factors for interface design by Carolyn Watters & Jack Duffy -- Network gatekeeping by Karine Barzilai-Nahon -- Nonlinear information seeking by Allen Foster -- Optimal foraging by JoAnn Jacoby -- Organizational sense making and information use by Anu MacIntosh-Murray -- The PAIN hypothesis by Harry Bruce -- Perspectives on the tasks in which information behaviors are embedded by Barbara M. Wildemuth & Anthony Hughes -- Phenomenography by Louise Limberg -- Practice of everyday life by Paulette Rothbauer -- Principle of least effort by Donald O. Case -- Professions and occupational identities by Olof Sundin & Jenny Hedman -- Radical change by Eliza T. Dresang -- Reader response theory by Catherine Sheldrick Ross -- Rounding and dissonant grounds by Paul Solomon -- Serious leisure by Jenna Hartel -- Small-world network exploration by Lennart Bjo·rneborn -- Nan Lin\'s theory of social capital by Catherine A. Johnson -- Social constructionist viewpoint on information practices by Kimmo Touminen, Sanna Talja & Reijo Savolainen -- Social positioning by Lisa M. Give -- The socio-cognitive theory of users situated in specific contexts and domains by Birger Hjr̜land -- Strength of weak ties by Christopher M. Dixon -- Symbolic violence by Steven Joyce -- Taylor\'s information use environments by Ruth A. Palmquist -- Taylor\'s question-negotiation by Philip M. Edwards -- Transtheoretical model of health behavior change by C. Nadine Wathen & Roma M. Harris -- Value sensitive design by Batya Friedman & Nathan G. Freier -- Vygotsky\'s zone of proximal development by Lynne(E.F.) McKechnie -- Web information behaviors of organizational workers by Brian Detlor -- Willingness to return by Tamara Combs Turner & Joan C. Durrance -- Women\'s ways of knowing by Heidi Julien -- Work task information seeking and retrieval processes by Preben Hansen -- World Wide Web information seeking by Don Turnbull