Brenda Dervin

According to our database, Brenda Dervin authored at least 14 papers between 1994 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2023

What we know about information seeking and use and how research makes a difference in our knowing.

Brenda Dervin

Inf. Serv. Use, 2023

2012

Crossing the divide: Putting information seeking research and theory into computer science practice to make information search systems and services more effective for the user.

Carol Kuhlthau, Donald O. Case, Brenda Dervin, Marcia J. Bates, Charles Cole, Karen E. Fisher

Proceedings of the Information, Interaction, Innovation: Celebrating the Past, Constructing the Present and Creating the Future, 2012

2010

Deep, efficient, and dialogic study of undergraduate information seeking and use: A methodological exploration.

Brenda Dervin, Rea Devakos

Proceedings of the Navigating Streams in an Information Ecosystem, 2010

2008

Designing for knowledge worker informings: An exemplar application of sense-making methodology.

Patricia Souto, Brenda Dervin, Reijo Savolainen

Proceedings of the People Transforming Information - Information Transforming People, 2008

2007

Predicting library, internet and other source use: A comparison of the predictive power of two user-defined categorizations of information seeking situations-nature of situations versus situation "emotions" assessments.

Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

Proceedings of the Joining Research and Practice: Social Computing and Information Science, 2007

2006

Keynote Address: Beyond communication: research as communicating. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 2.

Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Fei C. Shen

Inf. Res., 2006

Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 1.

Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

Inf. Res., 2006

How libraries, internet browsers, and other sources help: A comparison of sense-making evaluations of sources used in recent college/university and personal life situations by faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate users.

Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Zack Y. Kerr, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Chandra Prabha, Lorraine Normore, Mei Song, Elizabeth Kelley, Sarah Adamson, Teena Berberick, Kasey Martini, Noelle Karnolt

Proceedings of the Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All, 2006

Being user-oriented: Convergences, divergences, and the potentials for systematic dialogue between disciplines and between researchers, designers, and providers.

Brenda Dervin, Karen E. Fisher, Eric M. Meyers, Charles Naumer, Marilyn Ostergren, Carol Tenopir, Kreetta Askola, LouAnn F. Blocker, Carly Hamlett, Timothy Lepczyk, Ashley McConnell, Anthony Schlagel, Kelli Y. Williams, Andrew Dillon, Lorraine Normore, Tingting Lv, Shannon Hoste, Troy Elias, Peter H. Jones, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Bethany Simunich, Donald O. Case, Melissa A. Gardner, Gary K. Hughes, Jennifer L. Robinette, Robert J. Trader, Granger H. Butler, Melissa D. Davis, Sarah M. Donaldson, Susan M. Finley, Betsy A. Law, Anne E. Ledford, Christina Joy Mark, Nancy R. Marshall, Krista M. McManis, Jennifer Paul, Sarah F. Pratt, Latisha M. Reynolds, Kathryn P. Sexton, Roberta D. Shannon, Sara Fowdy Strange

Proceedings of the Information Realities: Shaping the Digital Future for All, 2006

2005

Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's sense-making and the methodological resuscitation of the user - looking backwards, looking forward.

Brenda Dervin, Karen E. Fisher, Joan C. Durrance, Catherine Ross, Reijo Savolainen, Paul Solomon

Proceedings of the Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together, 2005

2003

Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological interdisciplinarity (Invited paper).

Brenda Dervin

Inf. Res., 2003

1999

On studying information seeking methodologically: the implications of connecting metatheory to method.

Brenda Dervin

Inf. Process. Manag., 1999

1998

Sense-making theory and practice: an overview of user interests in knowledge seeking and use.

Brenda Dervin

J. Knowl. Manag., 1998

1994

Information <-> Democracy: An Examination of Underlying Assumptions.

Brenda Dervin

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci., 1994