Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, 30th Anniversary Edition
This 30th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting value and enduring legacy of Carol C. Kuhlthau's influential Information Search Process framework.

The publication of Seeking Meaning in 1993 marked a watershed moment in how we think about information seeking. The Information Search Process (ISP) model it introduced helped generations of educators prepare students for the increasingly complex information environments they would encounter, and its central findings have only grown in importance during the last 30 years.

Seeking Meaning offers a detailed description of the ISP and a framework for a process approach to library and information services. The ISP has helped to illuminate the user's perspective on information seeking and has offered insights into pressing problems of seeking meaning in an overabundance of information.

This evergreen text explores the implementation of a process approach to library and information services in education, an investigation of these concepts in the workplace, and a treatment of systems and systems design.

Kuhlthau's canonical research, accompanied in this anniversary edition by new essays exploring the text's legacy and continued importance, is required reading for students of library and information science in the United States and abroad and an invaluable resource for anyone providing library and information services.
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Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, 30th Anniversary Edition
This 30th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting value and enduring legacy of Carol C. Kuhlthau's influential Information Search Process framework.

The publication of Seeking Meaning in 1993 marked a watershed moment in how we think about information seeking. The Information Search Process (ISP) model it introduced helped generations of educators prepare students for the increasingly complex information environments they would encounter, and its central findings have only grown in importance during the last 30 years.

Seeking Meaning offers a detailed description of the ISP and a framework for a process approach to library and information services. The ISP has helped to illuminate the user's perspective on information seeking and has offered insights into pressing problems of seeking meaning in an overabundance of information.

This evergreen text explores the implementation of a process approach to library and information services in education, an investigation of these concepts in the workplace, and a treatment of systems and systems design.

Kuhlthau's canonical research, accompanied in this anniversary edition by new essays exploring the text's legacy and continued importance, is required reading for students of library and information science in the United States and abroad and an invaluable resource for anyone providing library and information services.
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Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, 30th Anniversary Edition

Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, 30th Anniversary Edition

by Carol C. Kuhlthau
Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, 30th Anniversary Edition

Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, 30th Anniversary Edition

by Carol C. Kuhlthau

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This 30th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting value and enduring legacy of Carol C. Kuhlthau's influential Information Search Process framework.

The publication of Seeking Meaning in 1993 marked a watershed moment in how we think about information seeking. The Information Search Process (ISP) model it introduced helped generations of educators prepare students for the increasingly complex information environments they would encounter, and its central findings have only grown in importance during the last 30 years.

Seeking Meaning offers a detailed description of the ISP and a framework for a process approach to library and information services. The ISP has helped to illuminate the user's perspective on information seeking and has offered insights into pressing problems of seeking meaning in an overabundance of information.

This evergreen text explores the implementation of a process approach to library and information services in education, an investigation of these concepts in the workplace, and a treatment of systems and systems design.

Kuhlthau's canonical research, accompanied in this anniversary edition by new essays exploring the text's legacy and continued importance, is required reading for students of library and information science in the United States and abroad and an invaluable resource for anyone providing library and information services.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798216193463
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 04/24/2025
Series: Libraries Unlimited Guided Inquiry
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Carol Collier Kuhlthau is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, USA, where she directed the graduate program in school librarianship – ranked number one by U.S. News&World Report – and was founding director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries.
Carol Collier Kuhlthau is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University, USA, where she directed the graduate program in school librarianship-ranked number one by U.S. News&World Report-and was founding director of the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries. Kuhlthau is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking research on the information search process. Her publications include Seeking Meaning: A Process Approach to Library and Information Services, 2e, and Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition
Seeking Meaning in the Era of AI-Mediated Information Access by Dr. Chirag Shah
The Impact and Legacy of the ISP and Seeking Meaning by Dr. Heidi Julien
Information Search Process Implications for Education by Dr. Leslie Maniotes

Chapter 1: The Constructive Process in Library and Information Science Theory
Chapter 2: Learning As a Process
Chapter 3: The Information Search Process
Chapter 4: Verification of the Model of the Information Search Process
Chapter 5: Longitudinal Confirmation of the Information Search Process
Chapter 6: Uncertainty Principle
Chapter 7: Roles of Mediators in the Process of Information Seeking
Chapter 8: Zones of Intervention into the Process of Information Seeking
Chapter 9: Implementing the Process Approach
Chapter 10: Information Search Process in the Work Place
Chapter 11: Process-Oriented Library and Information Services

References
Author Index
Subject Index

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