If we accept that it’s true that these are the “four modes of seeking information”:
- Known-item
- Exploratory
- DonŐt know what you need to know
- 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.)
