‘Just Enough’ Information: Information Behaviour, Organizational Culture, and Decision-Making in Municipal Government, a paper by Patricia Katopol, Ph.D. 2007, was selected as a Best Paper at the June, 2008 conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science in Vancouver, Canada.

The author suggests that in a complex, time-driven work environment with frequently changing priorities, the information needed for decision-making is often ‘just enough’ to inform the decision. The use of just enough information can be fostered by the organizational culture which privileges some behaviors over others and is a primary contributor to information behavior in the organization.

The paper was based on her dissertation work done while at the Information School and will be published in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science later this year. Dr. Katopol is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa and is associated with the Center for Human-Information Interaction at the Information School.

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