In this paper, Taylor attempted to describe how an inquirer obtains an answer from an information system, by performing the process consciously or unconsciously also he studied the reciprocal influence between the inquirer and a given system.Īccording to Taylor, information need has four levels: Taylor in his 1962 article "The Process of Asking Questions" published in American Documentation (renamed Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology). The concept of information needs was coined by an American information journalist Robert S. The control and thereby improvement of the utilization of information manipulation of essential conditions.The prediction of instances of information uses.The explanation of observed phenomena of information use or expressed need.Information needs are related to, but distinct from information requirements. According to Hjørland (1997) it is closely related to the concept of relevance: If something is relevant for a person in relation to a given task, we might say that the person needs the information for that task. Rarely mentioned in general literature about needs, it is a common term in information science. The term information need is often understood as an individual or group's desire to locate and obtain information to satisfy a conscious or unconscious need. ( June 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.
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