Information seeking is the process or activity of attempting to obtain information in both human and technological contexts. Information seeking is related to, but different from, information retrieval (IR).
Read more about Information Seeking: Information Retrieval, In Different Contexts, Theories of Information-seeking Behavior, Wilson's Nested Model of Conceptual Areas
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“Before we go seeking man we will have to have found the lantern.—Will it have to be the Cynic’s lantern?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)