Just as human activity includes both the sciences and the humanities, so reference inquiries reflect a spectrum of needs, including both information and experience respectively. Although information and experience are mutually interdependent, they represent different orders of consciousness and 'logic'. Experiential inquiries must therefore be matched by experiential, i.e., open-ended techniques of question-negotiation and search strategy.
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