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Creativity in Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval Environments

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Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access (ICADL 2003)

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Inspired by Weisberg’s [20] argument that creativity exists in everyone and on the assumption that every information seeker is creative and undergoes a creative process in information seeking, this paper synthesizes a holistic “creativity” model and “information seeking” model to identify stages in a creative process for information seeking. A pilot study was conducted to verify these stages and also examine if present digital libraries and information retrieval environments provide “creative” features to support creative information seeking. We discussed these initial findings and made recommendations for further work to better support creative information seeking in digital libraries and information retrieval environments.

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  1. Division of Information Studies, School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 637718

    Shu-Shing Lee, Yin-Leng Theng & Dion Hoe-Lian Goh

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  1. Department of Information Science, Faculty of Information Science & Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 43600, UKM Selangor, Malaysia

    Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok

  2. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  3. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, AZ 85721, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  4. International School of Information Management, University of Mysore, Mysore, India

    Shalini R. Urs

  5. School of Engineering, Information and Communications University, 119, Munjiro, Yuseong-gu, 305-732, Daejeon, Korea

    Sung-Hyon Myaeng

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Lee, SS., Theng, YL., Goh, D.HL. (2003). Creativity in Digital Libraries and Information Retrieval Environments. In: Sembok, T.M.T., Zaman, H.B., Chen, H., Urs, S.R., Myaeng, SH. (eds) Digital Libraries: Technology and Management of Indigenous Knowledge for Global Access. ICADL 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24594-0_40

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