The Information Culture and the Development of Personal Information Requirements

摘要

This paper reviews the characteristics that determine the development of information require-ments and search intentions among users from the viewpoint of the semantic information theory. The analysis of the impacts of factors, such as the library information environment and the information space outside libraries, on user search intentions is analyzed. The possible development of harmonious personal informa-tion requirements, which depends on the information culture, is demonstrated. The main component of the information culture is the information world view.