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AbstractPurpose - Working toward an symbolic interactionist understanding of information provision by multiple agencies responding to crisis situations, the authors examined mandated information...
View ArticleModelling Nonlinear Information Behaviour: Transferability and Progression
AbstractPurpose - This paper reports on a project aimed at moving Foster’s Nonlinear Model of Information Seeking Behaviour forwards from an empirically based model focused on one setting and towards...
View ArticleInformation literacy as a socially enacted practice: Sensitising themes for...
AbstractPurpose - A people-in-practice perspective is introduced and brings together previous theorisations of information literacy landscapes and practice (Lloyd 2006; 2010). This perspective provides...
View ArticleArchiving electroacoustic and mixed music: significant knowledge involved in...
AbstractPurpose - The purpose is to identify, operationalise, and test a knowledge management model in the context of electroacoustic and mixed music preservation. This operationalisation intends to...
View ArticleReaders' Perceptions of Authors' Citation Behaviour
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View ArticleConnecting with new information landscapes: Information literacy practices of...
AbstractPurpose - Purpose: The purpose of the research reported in this article is to understand how refugees learn to engage with a complex, multimodal information landscape and how their information...
View ArticleDoes Place Affect User Engagement and Understanding? Mobile Learner...
AbstractPurpose - The aim of this research project is to uncover if place-based learning can increase learner engagement and understanding of historical topics. Design/methodology/approach - To study...
View ArticleQuikScan Formatting as a Means to Improve Text Recall
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AbstractPurpose - In this study, the authors compare the evaluation of search result lists and documents, in particular evaluation criteria, elements, associations between criteria and elements,...
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AbstractPurpose - Purpose: The purpose of the research reported here is to improve comprehension of the socially-negotiated identity of concepts in the domain of knowledge organization. Because...
View ArticleAn exploratory study on social library system users’ information seeking modes
AbstractPurpose - Social library systems are Web 2.0 sites where users discover interesting books, movies, and music, etc., collect these resources to their personal libraries, and share their...
View ArticleReaders' perceptions of authors' citation behaviour
AbstractPurpose– The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which readers perceive correctly the reasons why authors cite items in scholarly texts. Design/methodology/approach– The authors of...
View ArticleConnecting with new information landscapes: information literacy practices of...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of the research reported in this article is to understand how refugees learn to engage with a complex, multimodal information landscape and how their information literacy...
View ArticleDoes place affect user engagement and understanding?: Mobile learner...
AbstractPurpose– The aim of this research project is to uncover if place-based learning can increase learner engagement and understanding of historical topics. Design/methodology/approach– To study...
View ArticleSearch result list evaluation versus document evaluation: similarities and...
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of this study is to compare the evaluation of search result lists and documents, in particular evaluation criteria, elements, association between criteria and elements,...
View ArticleNodes and arcs: concept map, semiotics, and knowledge organization
AbstractPurpose– The purpose of the research reported here is to improve comprehension of the socially-negotiated identity of concepts in the domain of knowledge organization. Because knowledge...
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