Journal of Documentation: Volume 57 Issue 1

Information search process of lawyers: a call for ’just for me’ information services

C.C. Kuhlthau, S.L. Tama

The study reported in this paper is part of a programme of ongoing research based on the model of the Information Search Process (ISP) developed in a series of prior studies by…

A theory of the task‐based information retrieval process: a summary and generalisation of a longitudinal study

Pertti Vakkari

The aim of this article is threefold: (1) to give a summary of empirical results reported earlier on relations between students‘ problem stages in the course of writing their…

Knowledge management issues for online organisations: ‘communities of practice’ as an exploratory framework

Elisabeth Davenport

Communities of practice have been identified as sites where knowledge is created in organisations. The author reviews studies of situated learning and situated action and suggests…

The everyday world of work: two approaches to the investigation of classification in context

Elin K. Jacob

One major aspect of T.D. Wilson’s research has been his insistence on situating the investigation of information behaviour within the context of its occurrence Ö within the…

Restructuring the university library: a North American perspective

Barbara B. Moran

As a result of rapid environmental changes, organisations of all types are rethinking their organisational structures in an attempt to provide greater effectiveness and…

Electronic communities in an information society: paradise, mirage, or malaise?

Lee Komito

Communities and neighbourhoods are often perceived to be under threat in the information society, as technological developments accelerate economic and social change…

Networked learning

Peter Brophy

The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education is changing learning itself in significant ways. The possibilities afforded by networked learning are…