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LIS 9870   Information Practices in Everyday Life

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This course explores the literature regarding the information practices of ordinary people in everyday life contexts, including the theoretical and methodological approaches used in such research. Topics considered include: patterns of everyday information practices; the social construction of information needs; the use of newspapers, radio, television, the Internet and other communication media to meet information needs; information behaviours arising from particular life situations such as parenting, employment, diversity or health concerns; barriers to information and information poverty; the public library and other institutional providers of information; studies of publishing and the book trade; and studies of readers and reading.

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