Building New Relationships and Valuing Diversity through the Information Seeking Process: From Picture Books to Hyper Space.

Huston, Mary M.

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ERIC Number: EJ464936

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1992

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Building New Relationships and Valuing Diversity through the Information Seeking Process: From Picture Books to Hyper Space.

Huston, Mary M.

Multicultural Review, v1 n1 p8-13,16-19 Jan 1992

Presents a selective survey of cognitive assumptions informing experiential variation as a platform for consideration of contextual information seeking and the implications for providers of information. Information professionals must bridge intellectual and experiential differences in delivering needed information. Librarians must be literate themselves before they can assist others. (SLD)

Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Experience, Folk Culture, Hypermedia, Individual Differences, Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking, Interpersonal Relationship, Librarians, Literacy, Picture Books, User Needs (Information), Values

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Audience: Media Staff; Practitioners

Language: English

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