Journal of Documentation: Volume 66 Issue 6

Documentary tools in everyday life: the wedding planner

Pamela J. McKenzie, Elisabeth Davies

This paper aims to analyze documentary planning tools for an everyday life project, the wedding, to study how “document work” is constructed in this setting.

Opening and closing rituals of the virtual reference service of the Internet Public Library

Jung‐ran Park, Guisu Li, Amy Burger

The purpose of this paper is to explore the communicative rituals of opening and closing manifested in e‐mail‐based Internet Public Library's (IPL's) online reference interaction.

The individual and social dynamics of knowledge sharing: an exploratory study

Sylvio Cyr, Chun Wei Choo

This paper aims to examine how knowledge sharing behavior is influenced by three sets of dynamics: a rational calculus that weighs the costs and benefits of sharing; a…

Managing documents at home for serious leisure: a case study of the hobby of gourmet cooking

Jenna Hartel

This paper aims to describe the way participants in the hobby of gourmet cooking in the USA manage culinary information in their homes.

A multilevel model of HIV/AIDS information/help network development

Tiffany Veinot

This paper aims to describe the personal information and help networks of people with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) in rural Canada, and to present a research‐based model of how and why these…

How poor informationally are the information poor?: Evidence from an empirical study of daily and regular information practices of individuals

Liangzhi Yu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the multifaceted information disadvantages facing the so‐called information poor in today's society. It has two specific objectives: to…

Carbon footprint of the knowledge sector: what's the future?

Gobinda Chowdhury

The purpose of this paper is to produce figures showing the carbon footprint of the knowledge industry – from creation to distribution and use of knowledge, and to provide…

Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact of Information and Community Technology

Niels Ole Pors

Big (information) history

David Bawden

Referees for 2010