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Oral 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...

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Discourse 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....

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Community 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...

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Modelling 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...

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Information 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...

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Archiving 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...

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An 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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Readers' 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...

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Connecting 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...

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Does 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...

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QuikScan 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....

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Search 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,...

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Nodes 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...

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Contents and structure of abstracts: Comparison of Czech, English and...

AbstractPurpose - Publishers of some scientific journals and the ISO standard require or recommend specific information to be present in abstracts. However little is known whether this is what...

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The three dimensions of informetrics: a conceptual view

AbstractPurpose - The aim of this paper is to propose a conceptual model of the field of informetrics. Specifically, we argue that informetrics comprises the study of entities in three dimensions: the...

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The stranger’s tale: information seeking as an outsider activity

AbstractPurpose - With a departure point in the Schutzian concept of "The stranger", the aim of the article is to examine the usefulness of the concept as a tool for understanding information seeking...

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Patterns of graduate students’ information seeking behavior: A meta-synthesis...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this review is to draw out patterns of information seeking behavior of graduate students as described in the empirical research published from 1997 to the...

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Interpreting reference work with contemporary practice theory

AbstractPurpose - In an increasingly competitive field of socially mediated information and knowledge available online, the public library's traditional services are increasingly questioned for...

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A memo of qualitative research for information science: Toward theory...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to advocate for a clearer and less fragmentary use of qualitative research in the increasingly interdisciplinary research setting of information science....

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Building on models of information behaviour: linking information seeking and...

AbstractPurpose - This paper seeks to gain insights from existing models of information behaviour, building on them to develop a new model which, unlike most others, encompasses both information...

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