This is in contrast to information use.
Information Sources Services and Retrieval has some notes on information behavior.
Why do people look for information? Because they have an information need. How do they decide what's worth considering? Information Literacy and Collection development process applied to this specific need. How do they know when to stop? How do you deal with information overload?
When do you not seek out information to fill a need?
Example of the janitorial worker who is afraid to ask supervisor for additional floor cleaning solution.
Example of Indigenous populations refusing to provide information to libraries and participate in research: Wong, D. (2024). What no means: Indigenous feminist refusal to library extraction. Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship / Revue Canadienne de Bibliothéconomie Universitaire, 10, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.33137/cjal-rcbu.v10.43098
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