Assessing information taxonomies using epistemology and the sociology of science
AbstractPurpose - This paper summarises a literature review undertaken to determine whether or not information taxonomy work, as a specific activity within the broader field of knowledge organisation...
View ArticleComing across information serendipitously: Part 2 - A classification framework
AbstractPurpose - In ‘Coming across information serendipitously: Part 1 – A process model’ we identified common elements of researchers’ experiences of ‘coming across information serendipitously.’...
View ArticleComing across information serendipitously: Part 1 – A process model
AbstractPurpose - This research sought to gain a detailed understanding of how researchers come across information serendipitously, grounded in real-world examples. This research was undertaken to...
View ArticleOpen Source Optical Character Recognition for Historical Research
AbstractPurpose - This paper presents an evaluation of open source OCR for supporting research on material in small- to medium-scale historical archives. Design/methodology/approach - Our approach was...
View ArticleInterrupting practices that want to matter. The making, shaping and...
AbstractPurpose - This article explores construction, production and distribution of environmental information in social media. Specifically, the focus is on people's accounts in social media of their...
View ArticleInternet use increases the odds of using the public library
AbstractPurpose - The functional equivalence hypothesis suggests that a new communication medium will replace those activities that most closely perform the same functions for users as did the...
View ArticleCommunication Overload: A Phenomenological Inquiry into Academic Reference...
AbstractPurpose - This study provides insight on the meaning of communication overload as experienced by modern academic librarians. Communication is the essence of reference librarianship, and a...
View ArticleOral documents in concept and in situ, part I: Grounding an exploration of...
AbstractPurpose - Although research indicates the importance of oral information, our understanding of it remains limited. This paper accordingly suggests that some utterances are oral documents and...
View ArticleDiscourse structure differences in lay and professional health communication
AbstractPurpose - We compare lay (consumer) and professional (physician) discourse structures in answers to diabetes-related questions in a public consumer health information website....
View ArticleCommunity Information as Boundary Object: Police Responsibility for Abuse...
AbstractPurpose - Working toward an symbolic interactionist understanding of information provision by multiple agencies responding to crisis situations, the authors examined mandated information...
View ArticleModelling Nonlinear Information Behaviour: Transferability and Progression
AbstractPurpose - This paper reports on a project aimed at moving Foster’s Nonlinear Model of Information Seeking Behaviour forwards from an empirically based model focused on one setting and towards...
View ArticleInformation literacy as a socially enacted practice: Sensitising themes for...
AbstractPurpose - A people-in-practice perspective is introduced and brings together previous theorisations of information literacy landscapes and practice (Lloyd 2006; 2010). This perspective provides...
View ArticleArchiving electroacoustic and mixed music: significant knowledge involved in...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose is to identify, operationalise, and test a knowledge management model in the context of electroacoustic and mixed music preservation. This operationalisation intends to...
View ArticleReaders' Perceptions of Authors' Citation Behaviour
AbstractPurpose - To determine the extent to which readers perceive correctly the reasons why authors cite items in scholarly texts.Design/methodology/approach - The authors of ten library and...
View ArticleConnecting with new information landscapes: Information literacy practices of...
AbstractPurpose - Purpose: The purpose of the research reported in this article is to understand how refugees learn to engage with a complex, multimodal information landscape and how their information...
View ArticleDoes Place Affect User Engagement and Understanding? Mobile Learner...
AbstractPurpose - The aim of this research project is to uncover if place-based learning can increase learner engagement and understanding of historical topics. Design/methodology/approach - To study...
View ArticleQuikScan Formatting as a Means to Improve Text Recall
AbstractPurpose - QuikScan is an innovative text format that employs three prominent signaling devices—summaries, headings, and access cues—to make the reading of medium-to-long texts more productive....
View ArticleSearch Result List Evaluation versus Document Evaluation:Similarities and...
AbstractPurpose - In this study, the authors compare the evaluation of search result lists and documents, in particular evaluation criteria, elements, associations between criteria and elements,...
View ArticleNodes and Arcs: Concept Map, Semiotics, and Knowledge Organization
AbstractPurpose - Purpose: The purpose of the research reported here is to improve comprehension of the socially-negotiated identity of concepts in the domain of knowledge organization. Because...
View ArticleAn exploratory study on social library system users’ information seeking modes
AbstractPurpose - Social library systems are Web 2.0 sites where users discover interesting books, movies, and music, etc., collect these resources to their personal libraries, and share their...
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