Given a context by any other name: methodological tools for taming the unruly beast
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
A social constructionist approach to the study of information use as discursive action
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Information encountering: a conceptual framework for accidental information discovery
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Information seeking in context: a challenging metatheory
ISIC '96 Proceedings of an international conference on Information seeking in context
Inner-city gatekeepers: an exploratory survey of their information use environment
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: youth issues in information science
The production of ‘context’ in information seeking research: a metatheoretical view
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue on Information Seeking In Context (ISIC)
The knowledge-behavior gap in use of health information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
The use of theory in information science research
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue on the still the frontier: Information Science at the Millenium
Framing social life in theory and research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Evaluating Networked Information Services: Techniques, Policies and Issues
Evaluating Networked Information Services: Techniques, Policies and Issues
The origins and contextual use of theory in human information behaviour research
The New Review of Information Behaviour Research
Informational environments: organizational contexts of online information use
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A profile of faculty reading and information-use behaviors on the cusp of the electronic age
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Fields and pathways: contrasting or complementary views of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The South Asian web: an emerging community information system in the South Asian diaspora
Proceedings of the ninth conference on Participatory design: Expanding boundaries in design - Volume 1
Measuring online information seeking context, Part 1: Background and method
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A clustering-based semi-automated technique to build cultural ontologies
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Fields and pathways: Contrasting or complementary views of information seeking
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Exploring cultural differences in information behavior applying psychophysiological methods
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
I'm scared to look but I'm dying to know: information seeking and sharing on Pro-Ana weblogs
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
Proceedings of the 73rd ASIS&T Annual Meeting on Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem - Volume 47
A political economy of public libraries in immigrant settlement in Ontario, Canada (1945--2011)
Proceedings of the 2012 iConference
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Confessional methods and everyday life information seeking
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Information practices of immigrants
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Information behavior in stages of exercise behavior change
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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We elaborate on Pettigrew's (1998, 1999) theory of information grounds while using an outcome evaluation approach enriched by its focus on context to explore the use of need-based services by immigrants in New York City. Immigrants have substantial information and practical needs for help with adjusting to life in a new country. Because of differences in language, culture, and other factors such as access, new immigrants are a difficult population to study. As a result, little research has examined their predilections from an information behavior perspective. We report findings from a qualitative study of how literacy and coping skills programs are used by and benefit the immigrant customers of the Queens Borough Public Library (QBPL). From our interviews and observation of 45 program users, staff, and other stakeholders, we derived a grand context (in Pettigrew's terms) woven from three subcontexts: the immigrants of Queens, New York; the QBPL, its service model, and activities for immigrants; and professional contributions of QBPL staff. Our findings are discussed along two dimensions: (a) building blocks toward information literacy, and (b) personal gains achieved by immigrants for themselves and their families. We conclude that successful introduction to the QBPL-as per its mission, programming, and staff-can lead immigrants to a synergistic information ground that can help in meeting broad psychological, social, and practical needs.