Let's say there are four modes of seeking information

If we accept that it’s true that these are the “four modes of seeking information”:

1. Known-item
2. Exploratory
3. DonÕt know what you need to know
4. Re-finding

Then Donna Maurer’s recent article in Boxes and Arrows offers some excellent advice on how to accommodate each of those four modes.

(I say if only because I am inherently suspicious of all such ordinal systems - there are 12, no seven personality types, no nine, no two - but having said that, I still love any such organizing scheme, if only for the sake of argument.)