Individual User Interests:
More specific information about users could cover the following:
- Subjects and associated interest - e.g. specific subjects, allied subjects; authors - individual or corporate - whose works are of interest; series in which the user is interested; periodicals, in which the articles are to be specifically notified; language constraints
- Education, training, and special expertise
- Foreign language competence
- Functions, activities and responsibilities in the institution
- Professional bodies in which the user is a member
- Technical periodicals which the user is receiving through society membership, subscription, etc.
- Types of reports - internal and external - received by the user
- Types of reports which the user is not receiving but would like to receive
- Outside organisations with which the user has academic or professional contacts
- Channels of communication between the user and other groups in the organisation
- Kinds of information materials preferred by the user: periodicals, reports, tradeliterature, newspapers, etc.
- Types of information notices I services preferred by the user: Currentawareness services, abstracts, digests, data, state-of-art report, critical reviewsetc.
- Is the user an "information gatekeeper" in the institution?
- Is the user associated with any "information gatekeeper" in the institution?
- Approximate time available to the user in a day or week for reading scientificand technical information material