Jennifer Berryman: Judgments during Information Seeking: Enough information
BA (Macquarie) Grad Dip Lib Sci (KCAE) Grad Cert Public Sector Mgt (Griffith) MMgt ( Macquarie ).
Doctoral Candidate
Email: Jennifer.M.Berryman@student.uts.edu.au
Thesis Title: Judgments during Information Seeking: Enough information.
Thesis Topic: The overall focus of this doctoral research is to develop a deeper understanding of how, in an information-rich environment, policy workers assess whether they have enough information to complete the task at hand. Taking a qualitative approach, the research also explores the influences – individual, work-related, organisational and environmental – that shape the ways in which workers make that assessment of enough information . Research findings will add to our understanding of information behaviour in general and will specifically expand our knowledge of what is happening at this stage of the information seeking process.
Principal Supervisor: Dr Theresa Anderson , Information and Knowledge Management Program, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, UTS
Co-Supervisor: Professor Joyce Kirk, RMIT University , Melbourne .
Selected Publications and Presentations
Book chapters
Parker, N & Berryman, J in press, The role of affect in judging what is enough? In: D. Nahl and D. Bilal (eds.) Information and Emotions: The Emergent Affective Paradigm in Information Behavior Research and Theory. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Books
Berryman, J. 1992, Into the Mainstream: Public Library Services to People with Visual Disabilities , National Library of Australia , Canberra .
Refereed Articles
Berryman, J. 2006, ‘What defines 'enough' information? How policy workers make judgements and decisions during information seeking: preliminary results from an exploratory study’, Information Research 11 (4) Paper 266. Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/11-4/paper266.html
Berryman, J. 2004, 'E-Government: Issues and Implications for Public Libraries', Australian Library Journal, vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 349-59.
Refereed Conference Papers
Berryman, J. 2006, 'Judgements during Information Seeking: Emerging themes from an exploratory study into the concept of enough information’, in A. Lloyd & B. Pymm (Eds.) Research Applications in Information and Library Science (RAILS 2): Seminar Papers. Wagga Wagga: Charles Sturt University. Available at http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/sciagr/sis/CIS/
epubs/RAILS2/RAILS2_Judgements_info_seeking.pdf.
Reports
Berryman, J (2005) Sustaining Communities: Measuring the Value of Public Libraries. Phase One: A review of research approaches. Prepared by Jennifer Berryman, for the Public Library Network Research Committee. Sydney, State Library of New South Wales. Available at http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/pln/projects/sustainingcommunities.pdf
Berryman, J (2004). E-Government: Issues and Implications for Public Libraries: A report prepared for the NSW Public Libraries Research Committee. Sydney: State Library of New South Wales. Available at http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/pln/projects/reportfinal.pdf.
Other Articles and Conference Presentations
Berryman, J. 2006, 'The role of uncertainty during information seeking’, 8th University Graduate School/Student Services Postgraduate Research Students' Conference , University of Technology , Sydney
Berryman, J. 2004, 'Understanding enough : exploring conceptions and contextual influences', 6th University Graduate School/Student Services Postgraduate Research Students' Conference , University of Technology , Sydney
Berryman, J. 2004, 'Understanding enough : exploring conceptions and contextual influences', Doctoral Workshop Presentation, and Poster: 5th International Conference on Information Seeking in Context , Dublin , Ireland .