Journal of Documentation: Volume 72 Issue 4

Towards a comprehensive measurement of the information rich and poor: Based on the conceptualization of individuals as information agents

Liangzhi Yu, Wenjie Zhou, Binbin Yu, Hefa Liu

Following the assumption that studies of information inequality need to be based on precise discrimination between society’s information rich and poor and against the context that…

On the composition of scientific abstracts

Iana Atanassova, Marc Bertin, Vincent Larivière

Scientific abstracts reproduce only part of the information and the complexity of argumentation in a scientific article. The purpose of this paper provides a first analysis of the…

Conceptual growth in integrated models for information behaviour

Reijo Savolainen

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the picture of the nature of integrated models for information behaviour from the perspective of conceptual growth in this field of…

Beyond information policy: Conflicting documentation ideals in extra-academic knowledge making practices

Lisa Börjesson

The purpose of this paper is to explore and explicate documentation ideals parallel to information policy, and by means of this analysis demonstrate how the concept “documentation…

Readers’ interest criteria in fiction book search in library catalogs

Anna Mikkonen, Pertti Vakkari

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate fiction readers’ interest criteria when selecting novels in library catalogs for various search tasks.

Apt information literacy? A case of interdisciplinary scholarly communication

Eystein Gullbekk

The purpose of this paper is to explore the aptness of “information literacy”, conceptualized as a socially contextualized phenomenon, for analyses of interdisciplinary scholarly…

The information practices of welfare workers: Conceptualising and modelling information bricolage

Rebecca Lea French, Kirsty Williamson

The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of information practices of welfare workers and how they fit into daily work of welfare work within a small community sector…

Co-construction of meaning, creative processes and digital curation: The transmission of music with live electronics

Guillaume Boutard

The preservation and curation of music with real-time or live electronics is challenging. The goal is not to preserve a recording of the performance but to keep the work alive by…

Library and information science and the digital humanities: Perceived and real strengths and weaknesses

Tibor Koltay

Library and information science (LIS) and the digital humanities are both interested in studying recorded information and often share institutional frameworks. The purpose of this…