Creativity in digital libraries and information retrieval environments

Abstract

Inspired by Weisberg’s 20 argument that creativity exists in

everyone and on the assumption that every information seeker is creative and

undergoes a creative process in information seeking, this paper synthesizes a

holistic “creativity” model and “information seeking” model to identify stages

in a creative process for information seeking. A pilot study was conducted to

verify these stages and also examine if present digital libraries and information

retrieval environments provide “creative” features to support creative

information seeking. We discussed these initial findings and made

recommendations for further work to better support creative information

seeking in digital libraries and information retrieval environments.