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On the two conceptualizations of information experience as an object of study: a response to Yu and Liu
Tim GorichanazThe purpose of this paper is to further the scholarly discussion of information experience as an object of study, including how this research area fits into library and…
Gigging it in the shire: information practices of Renaissance faire performers and artisans
Vikki C. TerrileThe purpose of this study was to explore the information behaviors (IBs) of performers and artisan/vendors in American Renaissance faires. This research is exploratory in…
Assessing the credibility of information sources in times of uncertainty: online debate about Finland's NATO membership
Reijo SavolainenThis article aims to elaborate the context-sensitive nature of credibility assessment by examining how such judgments are made in online discussion in times of uncertainty…
Distributed records in the Rohingya refugee diaspora: Arweave and the R-Archive
Saqib Sheikh, Anne J. Gilliland, Philipp Kothe, James LowryThis article delineates the pilot implementation of the Rohingya Archive (R-Archive). The R-Archive seeks to both confront and exploit the roles of documentation and…
Documents as weapons: secret police files in Communist and post-Communist Romania
Iulian VamanuThis study examined dossiers of informative pursual (DIPs), a particular type of secret police files, before and after the fall of Communism in Romania. These DIPs were…
Task information types related to data gathering in media studies
Laura Korkeamäki, Heikki Keskustalo, Sanna KumpulainenThe purpose of this paper is to examine what types of task information media scholars need while gathering research data to create new knowledge.
From a network model to a model network: strategies for network development to narrow the LIS research–practice gap
Hazel Hall, Bruce Martin Ryan, Rachel Salzano, Katherine StephenThe purpose of the empirical study was to examine whether strategies shown to work well in one model of network development for library and information science (LIS…
The role of data sharing in survey dropout: a study among scientists as respondents
Urs Alexander Fichtner, Lukas Maximilian Horstmeier, Boris Alexander Brühmann, Manuel Watter, Harald Binder, Jochen KnausOne of the currently debated changes in scientific practice is the implementation of data sharing requirements for peer-reviewed publication to increase transparency and…
Designated Community: uncertainty and risk
Rebecca D. Frank, Laura RothfritzThis article explores the tension between the concept of a Designated Community (DC) as a foundational element in Trustworthy Digital Repository (TDR) certification and…
Negotiating digital public spaces: context, purpose and audiences
Rhiannon Stephanie Bettivia, Elizabeth StainforthThe purpose of this article is to investigate digital public spaces and audiences and to explore the relationship of digital public spaces to both ideas of nationhood and…
“So how do we balance all of these needs?”: how the concept of AI technology impacts digital archival expertise
Amber L. Cushing, Giulia OstiThis study aims to explore the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in archival practice by presenting the thoughts and opinions of working archival…
A diplomatic-informed archival pedagogy: fostering student-centered learning environments for novice archival researchers
Carly Dearborn, Michael FlierlThis paper begins to construct a theoretical foundation for using a diplomatic-informed pedagogy that specifically addresses common concerns in archival instruction in a…
Beyond disclosure: the role of self-identity and context collapse in privacy management on identified social media for LGBTQ+ people
Xinlin Yao, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Shijie Song, Xiaolun WangWhile anonymous online interactions could be helpful and less risky, they are usually not enough for LGBTQ+ people to satisfy the need of expressing their marginalized…
The colonization of Wikipedia: evidence from characteristic editing behaviors of warring camps
Danielle A. Morris-O'Connor, Andreas Strotmann, Dangzhi ZhaoTo add new empirical knowledge to debates about social practices of peer production communities, and to conversations about bias and its implications for democracy. To…
Designing for serendipity: a means or an end?
Annelien SmetsThis article aims to gain a better understanding of the reasons why serendipity is designed for in different kinds of environments. Understanding these design intents…
Understanding international users' library experience in the Digital Age – joining the behavioral and experiential aspects
Yaming Fu, Elizabeth Lomas, Charles Inskip, Jenny BunnThe purpose of this paper is to describe, analyze and understand international users' library experience in the Digital Age in order to inform library service design and…
Information misbehaviour: modelling the motivations for the creation, acceptance and dissemination of misinformation
Thomas D. Wilson, Elena MaceviciuteMisinformation is a significant phenomenon in today's world: the purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations behind the creation and use of misinformation.
Information and the understanding of objective knowledge: a phenomenological study
Liangzhi YuThis study aims to investigate how understanding of objective knowledge (as defined by Karl Popper) is experienced by the knowledge recipient and the role that information…
The effects of social media addiction on reading practice: a survey of undergraduate students in China
Ziming Liu, Rui Hu, Xiaojun BiThe prevalence of digital reading and the widespread use of social media among young people demands systematic exploration of the effects of social media addiction on…
The origins and informed uses of the terms phenomenography and phenomenology
Sylvain K. CibanguThe purpose of this short reflection is to allow for an informed use of both phenomenography and phenomenology in information studies and cognate fields.
Promoting transformative encounters in libraries and archives
Carli V. LoweIn several existing studies of Information Encountering (IE), a recurring sub-phenomenon of serendipity arises that indicates the potential for certain unexpected…
Libraries in contemporary science fiction novels: uncertain futures or embedded in the fabric of society?
Amy Duxfield, Chern Li LiewThis study aims to examine the imagining of libraries and the depiction of library services in contemporary science fiction novels. Analyses of libraries in contemporary…
A grounded theory of information exclusion and information inclusion: framing the information experience of people seeking asylum
Kahina Le Louvier, Perla InnocentiThis paper discusses an original theory of information exclusion and information inclusion, which explains how information interactions can be structured in ways that…
Challenging the problem of un-democratic participation: from destruction to re-construction of heritage
Ina-Maria JanssonThe present study aims to contribute to the understanding of digital participation in heritage collections as a democratizing practice by identifying and challenging…
User-centered categorization of mood in fiction
Hyerim Cho, Wan-Chen Lee, Li-Min Huang, Joseph KohlburnReaders articulate mood in deeply subjective ways, yet the underlying structure of users' understanding of the media they consume has important implications for retrieval…
The case for print: architecture trade journals as pedagogical tools for disciplinary knowledge
Sara Schumacher, Hillary B. VeederThis article unpacks the construction of authority in architectural trade journals as multimodal disciplinary communication and how librarians can use these journals to…
The readability of abstracts in library and information science journals
Nina JamarThe purpose of the research was to find out if there are any differences in the readability score between abstracts published in scientific journals from library and…
Topics and changing characteristics of knowledge organization research in the 21st century: a content analysis
Li Si, Yi He, Li LiuKnowledge organization (KO) has been advancing at a progressively rapid pace under the influence of information technology. This study aims to explore the topics…
Library as place: conceptual model for public libraries and their transition
Marika Kawamoto, Masanori KoizumiIn this information age, demonstrating the significance of physical libraries is increasingly important. The roles and functions of libraries have been discussed using the…
The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model
Xuguang Li, Xiaoying Luo, Andrew Cox, Yao Zhang, Yingying LuThis research aims to explore the nature of Chinese students' mental health information needs and to identify the online resources they use to meet those needs.
Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation
Alex C. UrbanVideo game players, equipped with image capturing and rendering features, are taking photographs within digital worlds. This study examines video game photography as a…
The reader as subjective entropy: a novel analysis of multimodal readability
Amanda S. Hovious, Brian C. O'ConnorThe purpose of this study was to explore the viability of transinformation analysis as a multimodal readability metric. A novel approach was called for, considering that…
The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis
Leo Appleton, Hazel HallThe research was undertaken to explore the role of the UK public library as a public sphere and the ways in which this role relates to the epistemic, community and…
The width and depth of literacies for tackling the COVID-19 infodemic
Tibor KoltayA wide choice of varied information and data-based tools is reviewed in order to determine their ability treating symptoms of the COVID-19 infodemic. Several literacies…
Information overload: a concept analysis
Mohamed Amine Belabbes, Ian Ruthven, Yashar Moshfeghi, Diane Rasmussen PenningtonWith the shift to an information-based society and to the de-centralisation of information, information overload has attracted a growing interest in the computer and…
The things we carry: migrants' personal collection management and use
Maja Krtalic, Kingsley T. IhejirikaThis paper explores personal collection management and use in the context of migration. The paper further investigates how migrants use items in personal collections to…
Overcoming social divisions with the public library
Tomoya Igarashi, Masanori Koizumi, Michael Majewski WiddersheimThe purpose of this study is to describe the full picture of how public libraries contribute to overcoming social division through their resources, programming and services.
Expert judgments versus publication-based metrics: do the two methods produce identical results in measuring academic reputation?
Katerina Guba, Angelika TsivinskayaThis study aims to assess the validity of citation metrics based on the disciplinary representative survey.
“Bloody amazing really”: voices from Scotland’s public libraries in lockdown
Peter H. Reid, Lyndsay MesjarThe research examined Scottish public libraries and the libraries' response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020–2021. The research focussed…
What do they make us see: a comparative study of cultural bias in online databases of two large museums
Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Inna Kizhner, Sara MinsterLarge cultural heritage datasets from museum collections tend to be biased and demonstrate omissions that result from a series of decisions at various stages of the…
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on researcher collaboration in business and economics areas on national level: a scientometric analysis
Robertas Damaševičius, Ligita Zailskaitė-JakštėThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly impacted society and academic life and research practices. This study is an attempt to comprehend whether a…
Everyday information behavior during the “new normal” of the Covid-19 pandemic: approaching the notions of experiential and local knowledge
Michela MontesiThe purpose of this research is to understand everyday information behavior (IB) during the Covid-19 pandemic at the “new normal” stage, focusing on the notions of…
When librarians speak up: justifications for and legitimacy implications of librarians' engagement in social movements
Nanna Kann-RasmussenThis article presents a discussion of how librarians' engagement in certain social movements manifests itself in public libraries, how librarians justify their engagement…
Large-scale analysis of query logs to profile users for dataset search
Romina Sharifpour, Mingfang Wu, Xiuzhen ZhangWith an explosion of datasets available on the Web, dataset search has gained attention as an emerging research domain. Understanding users' dataset behaviour is…
A holistic decolonial lens for library and information studies
Andrea Jimenez, Sara Vannini, Andrew CoxThe aim of this paper is to introduce a holistic decolonial lens for Library and Information Studies (LIS). As such it centres in the following questions: what does…
A systematic review of information practices research
Huan Zhong, Zhengbiao Han, Preben HansenThis systematic literature review aims to elaborate the research progress of information practices to help other researchers attain a more holistic and comprehensive…
Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study
Sarah Hargreaves, Laura Sbaffi, Nigel FordThis paper both supports previous findings relating to, and presents new insights into: the information needs and the information seeking processes of a sample of informal…
Existential dependence relations of documents in the context of preservation
Ryo ShiozakiThis paper re-examines the ontology of documents, especially digital ones, in the context of preservation, which presumes the actual existence of things. It also explores…
Questioning the role of information poverty in immigrant employment acquisition: empirical evidence from African immigrants in Canada
Millicent N. Mabi, Heather L. O'Brien, Lisa P. NathanSkilled, well-educated African immigrants arrive in Canada with aspirations for more opportunities and a better life, but too often end up with few employment options and…
The information behaviours of disadvantaged young first-time mothers
Steven Buchanan, Cara JardineThe purpose of this study is to explore the information behaviours of socioeconomically disadvantaged young first-time mothers, an understudied and at-risk group (health…
Domain analytical information and knowledge organization: investigating the externalist and internalist conception of information
Martin Muderspach ThellefsenThe purpose of this paper is to discuss and clarify a possible realist foundation of domain analysis and knowledge organization, and in this vein, investigate into how the…
An exploration of ethnic minorities' needs for multilingual information access of public digital cultural services
Dan Wu, Shu Fan, Shengyi Yao, Shuang XuEthnic minorities (EMs), who make up a sizable proportion of multilingual users, are more likely to browse and search in their native language. It is helpful to identify…
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