Journal of Documentation
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Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures
Marco Humbel, Julianne Nyhan, Nina Pearlman, Andreas Vlachidis, JD Hill, Andrew FlinnThis paper aims to explore the accelerations and constraints libraries, archives, museums and heritage organisations (“collections-holding organisations”) face in their role as…
Information experiences of bonsai growers: a phenomenological study in serious leisure
Yazdan MansourianThe paper reports the findings of a research project exploring the information experiences of bonsai growers in Australia as an example of a serious leisure pursuit.
User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections
Cassandra Kist, Maria EconomouAs museums and other memory institutions continue to invest considerably in mass-digitising collections and participating in large search portals, it is essential to understand…
Long-term needs, long-term access? Major crime recordkeeping and the information needs of individuals bereaved by homicide
Lauren Benton, Anna SextonThe article presents research on the long-term information needs of homicide bereaved individuals in the context of record-keeping practice within Major Crime Units (MCU) in…
Is libraries' use of social media ethical? A phenomenographic investigation of Twitter (X) use at the Bodleian Libraries
Ross Jones, Briony BirdiSocial media (SM) has been heavily criticised in recent years for its damaging effects on societies globally. Tasked with empowering those same societies, libraries’ continued use…
Negotiating neutrality and activism in Norwegian public libraries: the case of environmental sustainability
Espen Eigil Barratt-Due SolumThis article explores how Norwegian public libraries negotiate neutrality and activism in response to national policy implementing the United Nations (UN) goals for sustainable…
“The changing same” of whiteness in the US LIS academy: a cathartic testimonial from BIPOC faculty scholars
Vanessa Irvin, Kafi D. Kumasi, Kehinde AkinolaThere is little to no empirical research on the phenomenon of ways in which the racism of whiteness transpires within the faculties and classrooms of US-based ALA-accredited…
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists
Callum McDonald, Allen Edward Foster, Pauline RaffertyGenre is a valuable access point for popular music collections; however, the blurring of genre boundaries combined with changing listening habits and new forms of classification…
Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology
Hannah Turner, Nancy Bruegeman, Peyton Jennifer MoriartyThis paper considers how knowledge has been organized about museum objects and belongings at the Museum of Anthropology, in what is now known as British Columbia, and proposes the…
“That looks like something I would do”: understanding humanities researchers’ digital hoarding behaviors in digital scholarship
Mingxia Jia, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Xiaoyu Zhang, Dawei WuIn the era of digital intelligence, individuals are increasingly interacting with digital information in their daily lives and work, and a growing phenomenon known as digital…
Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories
Rebecca D. FrankThis article investigates the construction of risk within trustworthy digital repository audits. It contends that risk is a social construct, and social factors influence how…
Converting and evolving a subject heading list into a thesaurus
Maria Teresa Guaglianone, Giovanna Aracri, Maria TavernitiThe objective of this paper is to describe the evolution of the available subject heading list, i.e. the CC Soggettario (Carabinieri Corps Soggettario), towards a thesaurus, that…
Information search process model based on costs and benefits: a behavioural economics perspective
Jinglin Qi, Zhengbiao Han, Preben HansenThis study constructed an information search process model based on costs and benefits to reflect different information search processes under different decisions from a…
Building bridges and preserving voices: key factors in community oral history stewardship
Jeonghyun Kim, Ana Roeschley, Mimi ByunThe study aims to enhance our understanding of shared community oral history stewardship by exploring its practices and challenges from the perspectives of the stakeholders…
Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension
Emily Baggs, Kaitlyn O'Neal, Andrew Robson, Lyn RobinsonThe paper reports on developments in the Information Seeking and Communication Model (ISCM) since it was first presented in 2013, focussing on how the model, derived by explicitly…
Documentation as part of substance use rehabilitation: how workers account for the significance of documentation during interviews
Kirsi Günther, Eeva Ekqvist, Katja KuusistoThe focus of this article is in documentation in substance abuse inpatient rehabilitation. Our article scrutinizes how workers give accounts of the documentation in the inpatient…
Democracy: a modern definition for the library field
John BuschmanDue to contemporary threats to democracy, the topic is highly prominent in news and social discourse. The Library and Information Science (LIS) field writes about democracy…
“We are openly, proudly Subjective … This history is important to our contemporary survival”: queer embodied knowledge and the curatorial work of ICT-based LGBTQIA+ history content creators
Travis L. WagnerThis article reports on findings from interviews with ICT-based content creators whose work focuses on documenting and curating queer history and culture. The research…
Learning to search and learning to slow down or “The quick and the dead”
Renee MorrisonThis study examines the temporal dynamics shaping our understanding of search in education and the role language plays in legitimising these dynamics. It critiques the way online…
Readers' advisory vs reference: a difference of stance
E.E. Lawrence, Virginia SharpeThe purpose of this paper is to determine how we ought to distinguish between reference and readers' advisory (RA) service, given the latter’s turn toward a whole collection…
Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods
Jia Tina Du, Qing Ke, Clara M. Chu, Helen Partridge, Dandan MaThis scoping review article examined research on information behavior in communities over the past two decades (2000–2023). The review aims to uncover the characteristics and…
Barriers and facilitators to research data sharing: a lifecycle perspective
Zilong He, Wei FangThis study investigates the multifaceted barriers and facilitators affecting research data sharing across the research data lifecycle. It aims to broaden the understanding of data…
Evolving legitimacy of the public library in the 21st century
Motoko Yamagishi, Masanori Koizumi, Håkon LarsenThe purpose of this research is to comprehensively describe the legitimacy of the public library in the 21st century.
Professional identity of public librarians, archivists and museum professionals in five European countries
Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Jamie Johnston, Kerstin Rydbeck, Andreas Vårheim, Isto Huvila, Máté Tóth, Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Anna MierzeckaThe purpose is to investigate the professional identity of public library, archive and museum (LAM) professionals in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Sweden.
The institutional e-lending setup in Scandinavian libraries: logics in play in the eyes of library and policy actors
Maciej Liguzinski, Nanna Kann-RasmussenThe article investigates the institutional setup of e-lending in public libraries in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Our point of departure is that e-lending has necessitated new…
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections
Maja Krtalić, Lilach AlonThis theoretical paper introduces a conceptual framework for Personal Cultural Heritage Management (PCHM), derived from prior research on migrants' information practices. It…
Traditional, dialogical and complex scholarly communication: towards a renewed trust in science
Antonella Foderaro, David Gunnarsson LorentzenThe credibility crisis of science is a growing topic of investigation. This study approaches the problem from the sustainability of the scholarly communication system by merging…
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research
Valerie Nesset, Elisabeth C. Davis, Nicholas Vanderschantz, Owen Stewart-RobertsonResponding to the continuing separation of participants and researchers in LIS participatory research, a new methodology is proposed: action partnership research design (APRD). It…
STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?
Lala Hajibayova, Mallory McCorkhill, Timothy D. BowmanIn this study, STEM resources reviewed in Goodreads were investigated to determine their authorship, linguistic characteristics and impact. The analysis reveals gender disparity…
Does information matter? Online discourse on the Yemenite children’s affair in Israel after release of archival documents
Roy Peled, Gal YavetzThis study evaluates how publicly available archival documents shaped online discussions about allegations that thousands of children were kidnapped during the 1950s in Israel…
Navigating change: an exploration of socio-epistemic process of extending Wikidata ontology with new properties
Marcin RoszkowskiThe paper addresses the issue of change in Wikidata ontology by exposing the role of the socio-epistemic processes that take place inside the infrastructure. The subject of the…
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