Information seeking (5 cr)
Code: 4A00CU29-3002
General information
- Enrollment
- 11.11.2024 - 15.01.2025
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 07.01.2025 - 23.02.2025
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 0 cr
- Virtual portion
- 5 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Distance learning
- Unit
- SeAMK Library and Information Services
- Campus
- SeAMK Seinäjoki, Frami
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Bachelor of Business Administration, Library and Information Services
- Teachers
- Ari Haasio
- Course
- 4A00CU29
Evaluation scale
1-5
Objective
The student knows how the content of the key theories of information seeking research effects especially from the librarian’s and library’s point of view.
Content
paradigms of information seeking
key models of information seeking studies
Information and knowledge as concepts
Information and information seeking process in everyday life
Materials
Haasio ym. (2019) Johdatus tiedonhankintatutkimukseen. Avain.
Haasio (2024) Löydä! Avain.
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Teaching methods
Verkkoluennot, kirjaessee, tehtävät, harjoitustyö
Student workload
135 h
Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)
The student has sufficiently participated in contact studies and completed the assignments included in the course and passed a possible exam
The student is able to describe orally and in writing the most important information seeking models and the impact of the field on library activities
Assessment criteria, good (3)
Student participation has been active in contact studies and part-time studies the student is able to present the areas of information acquisition research and its main models orally and in writing the student is able to apply theories in practice
Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
The student has actively participated in the course and its various forms of work the student has a good overall understanding of the importance of information seeking at the individual and community level and is able to evaluate different information seeking models analytically
The student is able to apply the learned models to the development of practical working life