Aslib Proceedings

Linking archival data to location: a case study at the UK National Archives

Paul Clough, Jiayu Tang, Mark M. Hall, Amy Warner

The National Archives (TNA) is the UK Government's official archive. It stores and maintains records spanning over a 1,000 years in both physical and digital form. Much of…

Highly focused document retrieval in aerospace engineering: User interaction design and evaluation

Daniela Petrelli, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Fabio Ciravegna, Ravish Begdev, Sam Chapman

This paper seeks to describe the preliminary studies (on both users and data), the design and evaluation of the K‐Search system for searching legacy documents in aerospace…

Expanding the concept of requirements traceability: The role of electronic records management in gathering evidence of crucial communications and negotiations

Hui Chen, Miguel Baptista Nunes, Lihong Zhou, Guo Chao Peng

Despite its tremendous success and achievements, the information science (IS) industry has been plagued by shadows of failure and inefficiency since its early days. This…

The use of Grounded Theory in PhD research in knowledge management: A model four‐stage research design

Inaam Idrees, Ana Cristina Vasconcelos, Andrew M. Cox

New PhD researchers sometimes face challenges when attempting to follow Grounded Theory principles to conduct their studies. These challenges may lead them to change its…

Information and food blogging as serious leisure

Andrew M. Cox, Megan K. Blake

The purpose of this paper is to explore aspects of creating, seeking, sharing and management of information in food blogging as serious leisure.

Information literacy through inquiry: A Level One psychology module at the University of Sheffield

Pamela McKinney, Myles Jones, Sandra Turkington

This paper aims to report on the evaluation of a curriculum development project that took place in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. The…

Playing video games: learning and information literacy

Sabina Gumulak, Sheila Webber

This paper aims to identify what motivates young people to play video games, and the extent to which video games are perceived as facilitating learning and information literacy.

Health and social care information for visually‐impaired people

Catherine A. Beverley, Peter A. Bath, Rosemary Barber

The purpose of this study is to examine the health and social care information needs of people with a visual impairment; to identify the health and social care information…

Investigating fiction reader characteristics using personal construct theory

Briony Birdi

Using the public library context, this paper seeks to present research identifying perceived characteristics of fiction readers and their associated genres, with a…

Developing the legal information professional: A study of competency, education and training needs

Sheila Corrall, James O'Brien

Legal information work has expanded with the growth in knowledge management and emergence of a new type of knowledge/information manager, the professional support lawyer…

Computer science research in Malaysia: a bibliometric analysis

Aryati Bakri, Peter Willett

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the publications of, and the citations to, the current staff of 19 departments of computer science in Malaysian universities, and…

Guest editorial

Peter Willett