Searching for help and information: Abused women speak out

Harris, Roma; Stickney, Judy; Grasley, Carolyn; Hutchinson, Gail; Greaves, Lorraine; Boyd, Terry

doi:10.1016/s0740-8188(01)00066-4

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“…Therefore, institutional barriers can slow down the information-seeking process remarkably and often restrict access to legal and financial information in particular. Harris and Dewdney (1994; see also Harris et al, 2001) examined the impact of institutional barriers on information seeking among abused women. The women's least helpful experiences were encounters with institutional service providers such as police officials whom they perceived to have a negative attitude toward them or who denied or minimized the severity of the abuse.…”

Section: Institutional Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

Savolainen

2016

Library & Information Science Research

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Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seekingTo appear in Library & Information Science Research 38(1), 2016 Abstract Drawing on conceptual analysis, the study elaborates the picture of socio-cultural barriers to information seeking. The analysis focuses on the features of such barriers and their impact on information seeking in diverse contexts. A typology identifying six main types of socio-cultural barriers was developed: barriers due to language problems, barriers related to social stigma and cultural taboo, small-world related barriers, institutional barriers, organizational barriers, and barriers due to the lack of social and economic capital. Socio-cultural barriers are man-made constructs originating from social norms and cultural values. The barriers have mainly an adverse impact on information seeking by restricting access to information sources and giving rise to negative emotions.

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Section: Institutional Barriersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

Savolainen

2016

Library & Information Science Research

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“…26 This means that strictly using demographic variables as a predictor of help-seeking behavior may be ineffective; therefore, it is better to think of seeking in a situational context, where abused women turn to informal and formal resources like other information seekers. 27 They also found that one major barrier was that women knew what kind of help they wanted but were unable to find this help within their communities.…”

Section: The Information Seeking Of Sexual Assault Survivors (Issas) mentioning

confidence: 99%

The ISSAS Model: Understanding the Information Needs of Sexual Assault Survivors on College Campuses

Skinner¹,

Gross²

2017

CRL

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Sexual assault is a prevalent, yet underreported and stigmatizing crime that disproportionately affects college-age students. The literature of Library & Information Studies does not currently address the ways in which survivors may seek information after an assault. Blending findings from Psychology and LIS, this study proposes the Information Seeking of Sexual Assault Survivors (ISSAS) model, which examines the seeking process through various stages of healing. The article concludes with directions for future research as well as insights on serving survivors within the academic library while being mindful of one's appropriate professional role.exual assault is a crime that impacts people from all walks of life. The National Crime Victim Survey reported 0.5 sexual assault per 1,000 U.S. women in 2009, 1 with an average of 207,754 individuals being assaulted each year. 2 In the United States, data from a variety of studies demonstrate that sexual assault on college campuses is a very real problem. However, it is difficult to know the full extent of the problem on college campuses, as sexual assault is a widely underreported crime because of the stigma survivors face. 4 This stigma may also affect our ability to fully understand the extent of the problem and has implications for library service in terms of how, when, and if survivors of sexual assault will seek information related to recovery. The prevalence of sexual assault on college and university campuses suggests that improving services to survivors should be a part of LIS research and practice. However, reluctance on the part of survivors of sexual assault to self-identify, and the potential for researchers to do harm inadvertently to this population in the context of research, makes them a difficult population to study and to serve.This article proposes a model for conceptualizing the information-seeking process of survivors of sexual assault through the lens of survivors' healing process. The objective of the Information Seeking of Survivors of Sexual Assault (ISSAS) model is to be informative about how survivors of sexual assault seek information as an aid to providing library services to this population, particularly in academic libraries. The ISSAS model, however, may be applied to sexual assault survivors in other contexts

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“…In dealing with formal systems, women often found one of the biggest obstacles they faced was the judgmental attitude of service providers (Harris et al 2001). The women expect understanding and support but find service generalists who are not adequately informed or willing to get involved (Dunne 2002).…”

Section: Information and Support-seeking Behavior Of Ipv Survivorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Support for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Public Librarianship's Role

Westbrook

González

2011

Public Library Quarterly

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Public libraries have the potential to provide rich information support for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). Librarians who understand the complex information gaps and barriers that IPV survivors confront during repeated attempts to achieve safety can create more effective services and policies. This study examines an IPV online support network's postings during ten months. The content analysis of the postings correlates survivors' expressed information needs, barriers, and resource preferences during the three basic stages of crisis. As funding for crisis centers disappears and IPV survivor needs increase, librarians can help to save lives by adjusting services to enhance privacy, safety, and confidentiality. KEYWORDS intimate partner violence, domestic violence, information seeking, information needs, people in crisis, everyday life information seeking (ELIS), public librariesThe lack of information resources may hamper survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) at any point in the transition out of abusive relationships. IPV survivors move through unique, often repetitive cycles of affective, cognitive, and behavioral change as they strive for autonomous lives. From the time they recognize the abuse in their lives through all the steps they take toward safety, survivors require information about a myriad of life problems related to child care, housing, employment, financial management, criminal law,

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Searching for help and information: Abused women speak out

Cited by 44 publications

References 16 publications

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

Approaches to socio-cultural barriers to information seeking

The ISSAS Model: Understanding the Information Needs of Sexual Assault Survivors on College Campuses

Information Support for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Public Librarianship's Role

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