This fifth edition is redesigned to reflect the breadth of research across information behaviour studies, with a new streamlined, six-chapter structure, presenting a refreshed look at information needs and seeking practices, while also embracing contemporary concepts such as information use, creation, and embodiment.

Lisa M. Given, PhD, FASSA, is Director of the Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, and Professor of Information Sciences, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia).

Donald O. Case, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Kentucky (Lexington, USA), where he was Professor in the College of Communication and Information for 21 years, serving as Director of the School of Information Science for three years.

Rebekah (Becky) Willson, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Information Studies, McGill University (Montreal, Canada).