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Personal Information Management Strategies and Tactics Used by Senior Engineers

This paper reports the results of an exploratory qualitative study of how senior engineers in a research laboratory environment do personal information management (PIM). Responsive, semi-structured interviews were conducted with four senior engineers. Thirteen themes in four groupings emerged. The four groupings are: organization and retrieval, un-organized aspects, information keeping and preservation, and use of specialized tools. Themes not seen in other studies are: writing to remember and reporting to retrieve,
and personal handbooks. The themes are described in detail. Implications for the design of information systems and future work are discussed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/106236
Date January 2007
CreatorsPikas, Christina K.
ContributorsGrove, Andrew
PublisherAmerican Society for Information Science and Technology
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeConference Paper

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