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• 13 Oct 13
  

  Debby Stacy

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• 02 Oct 12
  

  flcsiu

  information_management information_mana information_needs personal_information_management folksonomy

• 10 Dec 09
  

  Penny Swan

  Bruce, 2005

  information_management PIM

• 11 Aug 09
  

  adkittur
• 18 Jan 09
  

  Angus Hong

  Harry Bruce, Information Research, Vol. 10, No. 3, April 2005

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• 03 Jun 08
  

  owen walton

  kftf

• 20 Oct 07
  

  isawika

  memex pim

  • preference of individuals to seek information internally first—in other words, from a personal store of information sources and channels
  • When Bush (1945) first introduced his notion of a MEMEX
  • 'Keeping' entails interventions by the individual to acquire, represent, organize, store, and remember the location of, information sources and channels in the personal information collection. These interventions require investments of time and cognitive effort by the individual which he or she will calculate against the benefits of time saved and improvements to task completion or decision making—of having the right information at hand at the right time.
  • participants expressed regret for what Whittaker and Hirschberg called 'premature filing'–where participants had taken time to organize documents into folders and had then, later on, concluded that this time and effort had not been worth it.
  • if individuals can develop a greater awareness (perception and anticipation) of the contexts of their information needing and for the relative importance of different people, projects, areas of interest and their life goals, then they will be better able to distinguish between useful and non-useful information sources and channels and to make the critical decisions related to building and maintaining their personal information collection.
  • As the information seeking process unfolds, the amount of new information encountered will decrease. This in turn increases the confidence and certainty of the information user.
  • The goal of the personal information collection is to maximize the potential benefit of selecting and keeping an information source or channel while at the same time minimizing the cognitive effort and time that this requires

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• 31 Jul 06
  

  Kevin Wen

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• 08 Jun 05
  

  Seb Paquet

  An individual's understanding of personal, anticipated information need and how this understanding guides the acquisition and management of personal information will determine the effectiveness of that collection.

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• 04 May 05
  

  Thomas Vander Wal

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• 02 May 05
  

  Are Halland

  Paper om Personal info managment (PIM) (Information Research, Vol. 10 No. 3, April 2005)

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