PKM:  Retrieving Information

Retrieving information. 
Underlying the PKM skill of retrieving information is everything from the low-tech skills of asking questions and listening and following up to the more complex skills of searching for information using Internet search engines, electronic library databases, and relational databases.    Concepts of widening and narrowing one’s search, Boolean logic, and iterative search practices are an important part of the effective exercise of this PKM skill. 

Primary sources for information gathering:
a. observation,
b. interviews,
c. visual records,
d. journals,
e. surveys
f. experimentation and testing

Secondary Sources for information gathering
a. Database retrieval  
b. Web Retrieval 
c. Library Retrieval 
d. Text Retrieval 
e. File Retrieval 

 



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