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...
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 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...
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 ArticleContents 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePatterns 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...
View ArticleInterpreting 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...
View ArticleA 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....
View ArticleBuilding 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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