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Peer reviewedPendleton, Victoria EM; Chatman, Elfreda A. – Library Trends, 1998
Addresses ways to reexamine the world of information from small world perspectives and suggests implications for public libraries. Highlights include a conceptual scheme to examine small world lives, including social norms, world views, social types, and information behavior; and ethnographic inquiries to illustrate how qualitative methodology can…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Ethnography, Information Needs, Information Science
