[Asis-l] Book announcement: Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval

[Ian Ruthven]

Colleagues

A new textbook 'Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and 
Retrieval' edited by Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK and 
Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina, USA, has recently been 
published by Facet Publishing.

This textbook provides an information science perspective on information 
retrieval. Uniquely, the book covers the whole spectrum of information 
retrieval and is the first book to integrate information behaviour, 
information seeking and information retrieval into a single account of 
how we find information. Contributed to by an international team of 
leading scholars, the book demonstrates how studies of human information 
behaviour lead to the next generation of interactive search systems.  A 
key text for senior undergraduates and masters’ level students of all 
information and library studies courses, this book is also useful for 
practising LIS professionals who need to better appreciate how IR 
systems are designed, implemented and evaluated.

Table of Contents

Foreword Tefko Saracevic
1. Interactive information retrieval: history and background (Colleen 
Cool and Nicholas J Belkin)
2. Information behavior and seeking (Peiling Wang)
3. Task-based information searching and retrieval (Elaine G Toms)
4. Approaches to investigating information interaction and behaviour 
(Raya Fidel)
5. Information representation (Mark D Smucker)
6. Access models (Edie Rasmussen)
7. Evaluation (Kalervo Järvelin
8. Interfaces for information retrieval (Max Wilson)
9. Interactive techniques (Ryen W White)
10. Web retrieval, ranking and personalization (Jaime Teevan and Susan 
Dumais)
11. Recommendation, collaboration and social search (David M Nichols and 
Michael B Twidale)
12. Multimedia: behaviour, interfaces and interaction (Haiming Liu, 
Suzanne Little and Stefan Rüger)
13. Multimedia: information representation and access (Suzanne Little, 
Evan Brown and Stefan Rüger).

‘This is an interesting collection that deserves to be adopted as a key 
text within information science courses. Award-winning, internationally 
renowned editors have enticed a number of experts, some with industry 
experience, to provide high-quality contributions. The solid chapters 
discussing core fields that make up its coverage –  information seeking, 
information behaviour, information retrieval (IR) – assure its place on 
reading lists. The editors have ensured new developments receive 
attention but not at the expense of the essentials of the fields.’  – 
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION LITERACY

‘The chapters are well written, targeted at students on all levels, from 
bachelor to PhD. We are in no doubt that the content of this book may 
well fit in many information science curricula. One of the strong points 
of this book is its ease of reading and understanding because the 
editors have properly observed the coherency among the chapters, making 
references to related chapters in the text.  – ‘
INFORMATION RESEARCH

2011; 320pp, paperback; 978-1-85604-707-4; £44.95

Available from, amongst other stockists,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Interactive-Information-seeking-Behaviour-Retrieval-Ruthven/dp/1856047075
http://www.amazon.com/Interactive-Information-seeking-Behaviour-Retrieval-Ruthven/dp/1856047075
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=7074&category_code=401

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Ian Ruthven
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow G1 1XH
Email: Ian.Ruthven at cis.strath.ac.uk
Tel: +44 141 548 3098
Fax: +44 141 548 4523
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ir


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