Information Research, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, October 2006

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.

Invited paper

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  Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard:
  Researchers and practitioners talk about users and each other. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 1.

Papers presented at ISIC 2006: the 6th Information Seeking in Context Conference, Sydney, Australia, 19-21 July, 2006 - Part II

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  Brenda Dervin, CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Fei C. Shen:
  Keynote Address: Beyond communication: research as communicating. Making user and audience studies matter - paper 2.
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  Roma M. Harris, C. Nadine Wathen, Jana M. Fear:
  Searching for health information in rural Canada. Where do residents look for health information and what do they do when they find it?
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  Martin Rose:
  The information activity of rail passenger information staff: a foundation for information system requirements.
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  Martin Whittle, Barry Eaglestone, Nigel Ford, Valerie J. Gillet, Andrew D. Madden:
  Query transformations and their role in Web searching by the general public.
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  Julia A. Hersberger, Adam L. Murray, Sandra M. Sokoloff:
  The information use environment of abused and neglected children.
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  Lynne McKechnie, Heidi E. Julien, Jennifer L. Pecoskie, Christopher M. Dixon:
  The presentation of the information user in reports of information behaviour research.
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  Hilary Hughes:
  Responses and influences: a model of online information use for learning.
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  Louise Limberg, Olof Sundin:
  Teaching information seeking: relating information literacy education to theories of information behaviour.
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  Xiaoli Huang, Dagobert Soergel:
  An evidence perspective on topical relevance types and its implications for exploratory and task-based retrieval.
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  Jenna Hartel:
  Information activities and resources in an episode of gourmet cooking.
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  Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson:
  Uncertainty in action: observing information seeking within the creative processes of scholarly research.
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  Kirsty Williamson, Joy McGregor:
  Information use and secondary school students: a model for understanding plagiarism.

Other peer-reviewed papers

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  Mike Thelwall, Iina Hellsten:
  The BBC, Daily Telegraph and Wikinews timelines of the terrorist attacks of 7th July 2006 in London: a comparison with contemporary discussions.
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  Pertti Vakkari, Sanna Talja:
  Searching for electronic journal articles to support academic tasks. A case study of the use of the Finnish National Electronic Library (FinELib).
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  Resúmenes en Español.
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Watch this: Ajax, YUI and Web 2.0.

Volume 12, Number 2, January 2007

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.

Papers presented at ISIC 2006: the 6th Information Seeking in Context Conference, Sydney, Australia, 19-21 July, 2006 - Part III

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  Chun Wei Choo:
  Keynote Address: Information seeking in organizations: epistemic contexts and contests.
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  Zahed Bigdeli:
  Iranian engineers' information needs and seeking habits: an agro-industry company experience.
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  Karen E. Fisher, Carol F. Landry, Charles Naumer:
  Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: 'information ground' characteristics based on the college student experience.
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  Jarkko Kari:
  Conceptualizing the personal outcomes of information.
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  Christopher S. G. Khoo, Brendan Luyt, Caroline Ee, Jamila Osman, Hui-Hui Lim, Sally Yong:
  How users organize electronic files on their workstations in the office environment: a preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour.
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  Andrew D. Madden, Barry Eaglestone, Nigel Ford, Martin Whittle:
  Search engines: a first step to finding information: preliminary findings from a study of observed searches.
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  Eric M. Meyers, Lisa P. Nathan, Matthew L. Saxton:
  Barriers to information seeking in school libraries: conflicts in perceptions and practice.
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  Makiko Miwa, Noriko Kando:
  A naïve ontology for concepts of time and space for searching and learning.
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  Ophelia T. Morey:
  Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community.
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  Shunsaku Tamura, Makiko Miwa, Yasunori Saito, Mika Koshizuka, Yumiko Kasai, Mamiko Matsubayashi, Nozomi Ikeya:
  Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries.
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  Nei-Ching Yeh:
  A framework for understanding culture and its relationship to information behaviour: Taiwanese aborigines' information behaviour.
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  Kyunghye Yoon:
  A study of interpersonal information seeking: the role of topic and comment in the articulation of certainty and uncertainty of information need.

Other peer-reviewed papers

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  Flávia Ferreira, Joanice Nascimento Santos, Lucyana Nascimento, Ricardo Sodré Andrade, Susane Barros, Jussara Borges, Helena Pereira da Silva, Othon Jambeiro, Fábio Ferreira, Bethany Lynn Letalien:
  Information professionals in Brazil: core competencies and professional development.
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  Elea Giménez-Toledo, Susana Torrado Morales:
  El efecto de las noticias de alto impacto en los servicios de documentación: el caso del atentado terrorista del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Madrid en la prensa española.
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  José Manuel Ortega Egea, Manuel Recio Menéndez, María Victoria Román González:
  Diffusion and usage patterns of Internet services in the European Union.
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  Paulina Junni:
  Students seeking information for their Master's theses: the effect of the Internet.
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  Bo-Christer Björk:
  A model of scientific communication as a global distributed information system.
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  David J. Solomon:
  Medical Education Online: a case study of an open access journal in health professional education.
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  Resúmenes en Español.
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Watch this: artisanal animation.

Volume 12, Number 3, April 2007

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.
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  Mark A. Spasser:
  Guest Editorial.
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  Shaun K. Kane:
  Everyday inclusive Web design: an activity perspective.
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  Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Elisabeth Davenport:
  Activity systems, information sharing and the development of organizational knowledge in two Finnish firms: an exploratory study using Activity Theory.
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  Anja Mursu, Irmeli Luukkonen, Mikko Korpela:
  Activity Theory in information systems research and practice - theoretical underpinnings for an information systems development method.
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  Terry L. von Thaden:
  Building a foundation to study distributed information behaviour.
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  Eric M. Meyers:
  From activity to learning: using cultural historical activity theory to model school library programmes and practices.
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  Benny Karpatschof:
  Human activity - contributions to the anthropological sciences from a perspective of activity theory.

Other peer-reviewed papers

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  Ja-Shen Chen, Hung-Tai Tsou:
  Information technology adoption for service innovation practices and competitive advantage: the case of financial firms.
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  Angel Freddy Godoy Viera, Johnny Virgil:
  Uma revisão dos algoritmos de radicalização em língua portuguesa.
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  José Antonio Gómez-Hernández, Cristóbal Pasadas-Ureña:
  La alfabetización informacional en bibliotecas públicas. Situación actual y propuestas para una agenda de desarrollo.
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  Dong Hee Shin:
  A social dynamics of the development of community network: problems raised by a case of community network development.
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  Jenny Bronstein:
  The role of the research phase in information seeking behaviour of Jewish scholars: a modification of Ellis's behavioural characteristics.
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  Reijo Savolainen:
  Media credibility and cognitive authority. The case of seeking orienting information.
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  Jela Steinerová, Jaroslav Susol:
  Users' information behaviour - a gender perspective.
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  John Willinsky, Ranjini Mendis:
  Open access on a zero budget: a case study of Postcolonial Text.
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  Resúmenes en Español.
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Watch this: artisanal animation.
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  John H. Williams:
  Letter to the Editor: Calvin Mooers and the patent system.

Volume 12, Number 4, October 2007

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  T. D. Wilson:
  Editorial.
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  Marcia J. Bates:
  What is browsing - really? A model drawing from behavioural science research.
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  Judit Bar-Ilan:
  The use of Weblogs (blogs) by librarians and libraries to disseminate information.
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  Sheila Corrall:
  Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model.
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  J. Carlos Fernández-Molina, José Augusto Chaves Guimarães:
  Las nuevas leyes de derecho de autor: ¿adecuadas para la preservación digital?
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  Chun-Yao Huang, Yung-Cheng Shen, I-Ping Chiang, Chen-Shun Lin:
  Concentration of Web users' online information behaviour.
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  Kyunghye Kim, Mia Liza A. Lustria, Darrell Burke, Nahyun Kwon:
  Predictors of cancer information overload: findings from a national survey.
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  Susana Romanos de Tiratel, Graciela M. Giunti:
  Las revistas argentinas de Ciencias Antropológicas: visibilidad en bases de datos internacionales.
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  Barbara Anne Sen, R. Taylor:
  Determining the information needs of small and medium-sized enterprises: a critical success factor analysis.
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  Mike Thelwall, Aidan Byrne, Melissa Goody:
  Which types of news story attract bloggers?
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  Paul G. Haschak:
  The 'platinum route' to open access: a case study of E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship.
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  Resúmenes en Español.
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Watch this: Webified markup.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Our reviewers.

Reviews

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  Patrick Hensell:
  Review of: Boiko, Bob. Laughing at the CIO: a parable and prescription for IT leadership. Medford, NJ: Information Today, Inc., 2007.
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  Helen Fitzgerald:
  Review of: Bradley, Phil. How to use Web 2.0 in your library. London: Facet Publishing, 2007.
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  Helen Fitzgerald:
  Review of: Farkas, Meredith G. Social software in libraries: building collaboration, communication, and community online. Medford, NJ: Information Today Inc., 2007.
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  Terrence A. Brooks:
  Review of: Feldt, Kenneth C. Programming Firefox. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2007.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Herrero, Leandro. New leaders wanted: now hiring! 12. kinds of people you must find, seduce, hire and create a job for. Beaconsfield: Meeting minds. 2007.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Kauhanen-Simanainen, Anne. Corporate literacy: discovering the senses of the organisation. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2007.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Kovacs, Diane. The virtual reference handbook: interview and information delivery techniques for the chat and e-mail environments. London: Facet Publishing, 2007.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Moggridge, Bill. Designing interactions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Pickard, Alison Jane. Research methods in information London: Facet Publishing, 2007.
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  Elena Maceviciute:
  Review of: Pugh, Lyndon. Change management in information services. 2nd ed. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Talbott, S. Devices of the soul: battling for our selves in an age of machines. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2007.
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  T. D. Wilson:
  Review of: Weinberger, David. Everything is miscellaneous: the power of the new digital disorder. New York, NY: Henry Holt & Company, 2007.
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  Hilary Pollard:
  Review of: West, Darrell M. Digital government: technology and public sector performance. Princeton: NJ; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007.
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  Marija Norvaisaite:
  Review of: White, Martin. Making search work: implementing web, intranet and enterprise search. London: Facet Publishing, 2007.

Volume 12, Number 4, Supplement, October 2007

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Conceptions in Library and Information Science, Borås, Sweden, 13-16 August, 2007

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  Katriina Byström, Ragnar Nordlie, Nils Pharo:
  Guest Editorial.

Keynote papers

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  Elisabeth Orna:
  Collaboration between library and information science and information design disciplines. On what? Why? Potential benefits?
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  Andrew Dillon:
  Library and information science as a research domain: problems and prospects.

Peer-reviewed papers

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  Sanna Talja, Jenna Hartel:
  Revisiting the user-centered turn in information science research: an intellectual history perspective.
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  R. David Lankes, Joanne Silverstein, Scott Nicholson, Todd E. Marshall:
  Participatory networks: the library as conversation.
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  Birger Hjørland:
  Arguments for 'the bibliographical paradigm'. Some thoughts inspired by the new English edition of the UDC.
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  Melanie Feinberg:
  Hidden bias to responsible bias: an approach to information systems based on Haraway's situated knowledges.
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  Hsia-Ching Chang, Terrence Maxwell:
  A synergistic alternative to readers' advisory services: managing customer knowledge.
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  Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang:
  Tracking government Websites for information integration.
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  Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson:
  Settings, arenas and boundary objects: socio-material framings of information practices.
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  Jan Nolin:
  What's in a turn?
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  Debbie L. Rabina, David J. Walczyk:
  Information professionals' attitude toward the adoption of innovations in everyday life.
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  Nishikant Kapoor, John T. Butler, Gary C. Fouty, James A. Stemper, Joseph A. Konstan:
  Resolvability of references in users' personal collections.
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  Birgitta Olander:
  Information interaction among computer scientists. A longitudinal study.
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  Jennie A. Abrahamson, Karen E. Fisher:
  'What's past is prologue': towards a general model of lay information mediary behaviour.
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  Douglas Colbeck:
  Understanding knowledge genesis by means of multivariate factor analysis of epistemological belief structures.
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  Lars Qvortrup:
  The public library: from information access to knowledge management - a theory of knowledge and knowledge categories.
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  Michael René Kristiansson:
  Strategic reflexive conversation - a new theoretical-practice field within LIS.
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  Anna-Karin Tötterman, Gunilla Widén-Wulff:
  What a social capital perspective can bring to the understanding of information sharing in a university context.
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  Ragnar Andreas Audunson, Andreas Vårheim, Erling Dokk-Holm, Svanhild Aabø:
  Public libraries, social capital and low intensive meeting places.
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  Dominique Maurel, Pierrette Bergeron:
  Problem situations encountered by middle managers working in a municipality in transition.
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  Hong (Iris) Xie:
  Shifts in information-seeking strategies in information retrieval in the digital age: Planned-situational model.
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  Jeppe Nicolaisen, Tove Faber Frandsen:
  The handicap principle: a new perspective for library and information science research.
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  J. Tuomas Harviainen:
  Live-action, role-playing environments as information systems: an introduction.
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  Justine Carlisle:
  Digital music and generation Y: discourse analysis of the online music information behaviour talk of five young Australians.
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  Katriina Byström:
  Approaches to task in contemporary information studies.
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  Jette Hyldegård, Peter Ingwersen:
  Task complexity and information behaviour in group based problem solving.
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  Louise Limberg:
  Learning assignment as task in information seeking research.
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  Marcia J. Bates:
  Defining the information disciplines in encyclopedia development.
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  Gerald Benoît:
  Critical theory and the legitimation of library and information science.
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  David Bawden:
  Information as self-organized complexity; a unifying viewpoint.
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  Deborah Turner:
  Conceptualizing oral documents.
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  Vesa Suominen:
  The problem of 'userism', and how to overcome it in library theory.
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  Annemaree Lloyd:
  Recasting information literacy as socio-cultural practice: implications for library and information science researchers.

Educational forum

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  David Bawden:
  Introduction: Facing the educational future.

Invited papers

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  Michael S. Seadle, Elke Greifeneder:
  Envisioning an iSchool curriculum.
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  Polona Vilar, Maja Zumer, Jessica Bates:
  Information seeking and information retrieval curricula development for modules taught in two library and information science schools: the cases of Ljubljana and Dublin.
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  Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson:
  Information, media, digital industries and the library and information science curriculum. [Abstract only].

Peer-reviewed papers

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  Hairong Yu, Mari Davis:
  The case for curriculum reform in Australian information management & library and information science education: Part 1. Technology and digitization as drivers.
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  Tibor Koltay:
  A new direction for library and information science: the communication aspect of information literacy.
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  Prudence W. Dalrymple, Nancy K. Roderer:
  Library information science and biomedical informatics: converging disciplines.
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  Lars Seldén:
  The Bologna process and the ups and downs of professionalisation in Swedish public libraries.

Poster abstracts

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  Fredrik Åström:
  Heterogeneity and homogeneity in library and information science research.
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  Johanna Rivano Eckerdal:
  Young women evaluating information sources before choosing a contraceptive. Dimensions of information literacy and democracy.
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  Rhiannon Gainor, Lisa M. Given, Stan Ruecker, Andrea Ruskin, Elizabeth (Bess) Sadler, Heather Simpson:
  Visualization as a research and design approach for library and information science: exploring seniors' use of a visual search interface.
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  Mirka Gresková:
  Human-agent interaction from the perspective of information behaviour and usability.
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  Päivi Helminen:
  From novice to nutrition expert - exploration of nutrition expertise and information use of nutritionists.
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  Eva Hornung:
  The smart ones: one-person librarians in Ireland and continuing professional development.
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  Evangelina Koundouraki:
  The information cycle in the European Commission's policy-making process.
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  Jan Larsson:
  The retrievability of a discipline: a domain analytic view of classification.
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  Stasa Milojevic:
  Big science, nano science? Mixed method approach to mapping evolution and structure of nanotechnology.