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The institutional e-lending setup in Scandinavian libraries: logics in play in the eyes of library and policy actors
Maciej Liguzinski, Nanna Kann-RasmussenThe article investigates the institutional setup of e-lending in public libraries in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Our point of departure is that e-lending has necessitated new…
Information searching in cultural heritage archives: a user study
Pia Borlund, Nils Pharo, Ying-Hsang LiuThe PICCH research project contributes to opening a dialogue between cultural heritage archives and users. Hence, the users are identified and their information needs, the search…
Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections
Maja Krtalić, Lilach AlonThis theoretical paper introduces a conceptual framework for Personal Cultural Heritage Management (PCHM), derived from prior research on migrants' information practices. It…
Validating predictions of burial mounds with field data: the promise and reality of machine learning
Adela Sobotkova, Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan, Orla Mallon, Shawn Adrian RossThis paper provides practical advice for archaeologists and heritage specialists wishing to use ML approaches to identify archaeological features in high-resolution satellite…
APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research
Valerie Nesset, Elisabeth C. Davis, Nicholas Vanderschantz, Owen Stewart-RobertsonResponding to the continuing separation of participants and researchers in LIS participatory research, a new methodology is proposed: action partnership research design (APRD). It…
Reinforming memes: a literature review of the status of memetic information
Alexander O. Smith, Jeff Hemsley, Zhasmina Y. TachevaOur purpose is to reconnect memetics to information, a persistent and unclear association. Information can contribute across a span of memetic research. Its obscurity restricts…
Signifying unity: exploring the interplay of semiotics, universalism and pluralism in information science
Martin Muderspach ThellefsenThe purpose of this study is twofold: first, to provide a nuanced understanding of the information concept that encapsulates both its universal foundations and context-dependent…
Contested imaginaries: workfinding information practices of STEM-trained immigrant women in Canada
Nadia Caidi, Saadia Muzaffar, Elizabeth KalbfleischThis pan-Canadian study examines the information practices of STEM-trained immigrant women to Canada as they navigate workfinding and workplace integration. Our study focuses on a…
Automated Dewey Decimal Classification of Swedish library metadata using Annif software
Koraljka Golub, Osma Suominen, Ahmed Taiye Mohammed, Harriet Aagaard, Olof OstermanIn order to estimate the value of semi-automated subject indexing in operative library catalogues, the study aimed to investigate five different automated implementations of an…
An examination of existing research on academic libraries and the social web
Namjoo ChoiThe purpose of this study is to examine research on academic libraries and the social web published from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2023.
The impact of information needs satisfaction on the creativity of visual art teachers
Spyros Kolyvas, Petros A. Kostagiolas, Konstantina MartzoukouThe aim of this study is to investigate how the information needs satisfaction of visual art teachers affects their creativity. Visual art teachers’ information seeking behaviour…
Relevance and creativity – a linear model
Wayne de Fremery, Michael Keeble BucklandThe purpose of this paper is to provide a new and useful formulation of relevance.
User perspectives through cross-connections. The role of archives as part of the German digital research data infrastructure
Kai Naumann, Andreas NeuburgerStarting from the status quo, the paper outlines perspectives and challenges for the connection and interlinking of digitised and digital archival data. The following topics are…
Datafication of audiovisual archives: from practice mapping to a thinking model
Yuchen YangRecent archiving and curatorial practices took advantage of the advancement in digital technologies, creating immersive and interactive experiences to emphasize the plurality of…
Robert Pagès’ concept of the “auto-document” as a forerunner to neo-documentation’s philosophy of documentality
Ronald E. DayThe purpose of this paper is to examine Robert Pagès' 1948 conception of “auto-document” as a possible forerunner to the neo-documentalist conception of “documentality” as…
Critical open access literacy as a strategy to confront the challenges in scholarly communication
Dijana ŠobotaThe paper seeks to introduce the “critical open access literacy” construct as a holistic approach to confront the challenges in open access (OA) as a dimension of scholarly…
Understanding ways to support teens and parents affected by Russia–Ukraine war
Irene Lopatovska, Celia CoanThe study explored how information institutions can support the resilience of parents of adolescents affected by the Russia–Ukraine war. Ukrainian parents are facing major…
Recent temporal dynamics in economics: empirical analyses of annual publications in economic fields
Lutz Bornmann, Klaus WohlrabeDifferences in annual publication counts may reflect the dynamic of scientific progress. Declining annual numbers of publications may be interpreted as missing progress in…
Dancing with the devil: the use and perceptions of academic journal ranking lists in the management field
Alexander Serenko, Nick BontisThis study explores the use and perceptions of scholarly journal ranking lists in the management field based on stakeholders’ lived experience.
The in-between: information experience within human-companion animal living environments
Niloofar Solhjoo, Maja Krtalić, Anne GouldingWhile exploring the information experience within multispecies families, the subjective nature of humans and non-human entities, living beings and non-living objects becomes…
In search of a coherent theoretical foundation for LIS ethical principles: an appraisal of Floridi's Information Ethics
Liangzhi Yu, Yao ZhangThis study aims to examine the potential of Information Ethics (IE) to serve as a coherent ethical foundation for the library and information science profession (LIS profession).
Data quality assurance in research data repositories: a theory-guided exploration and model
Besiki Stvilia, Dong Joon LeeThis study addresses the need for a theory-guided, rich, descriptive account of research data repositories' (RDRs) understanding of data quality and the structures of their data…
Influence of Dervin’s sensemaking methodology determined through citation context analysis, content analysis and bibliometrics
Yu-Wei Chang, I-Jen LiThis study explored the influence of Dervin’s sensemaking methodology (SMM).
Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues
Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou, Sarah KenderdineDespite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have…
Computer vision and machine learning approaches for metadata enrichment to improve searchability of historical newspaper collections
Dilawar Ali, Kenzo Milleville, Steven Verstockt, Nico Van de Weghe, Sally Chambers, Julie M. BirkholzHistorical newspaper collections provide a wealth of information about the past. Although the digitization of these collections significantly improves their accessibility, a large…
Unsilencing colonial archives via automated entity recognition
Mrinalini Luthra, Konstantin Todorov, Charles Jeurgens, Giovanni ColavizzaThis paper aims to expand the scope and mitigate the biases of extant archival indexes.
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