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The Information School

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

INFO 414 Information Behavior

Debate

The class will engage in a debate regarding the assumptions behind the system- and user-oriented approaches to the study of information needs and uses.

Students will be selected to represent either the user- or the system-oriented perspective and will debate the strengths of each approach.

The debate will be structured according to the categories of assumptions that Dervin and Nilan (1986) identified. A summary of these assumptions appears on the attached sheet.