Journal of Documentation: Volume 77 Issue 5

The nonpharmaceutical interventionist (NPI) signs of the coronavirus pandemic: a documentary typology and case study of COVID-19 signage

Marc Richard Hugh Kosciejew

Signs saturate and surround society. This article illuminates the significant roles played by documentation within the context of the coronavirus pandemic. It centres, what it…

Contextualising risk: the unfolding information work and practices of people during the COVID-19 pandemic

Annemaree Lloyd, Alison Hicks

The aim of this study is to investigate people's information practices as the SARS-CoV-2 virus took hold in the UK. Of particular interest is how people transition into newly…

The image of the library through the eyes of immigrant and migrant readers

Keren Dali

Drawing on the survey of Spanish-speaking immigrant and migrant readers in Canada and the US, this study pursues three goals: (1) examine the image of the library held by these…

ViewpointRuminations on peer review in the time of social change

Keren Dali

This viewpoint article looks at several approaches to peer review that become detrimental to the scholarly process and disadvantage diverse voices in the scholarly conversation.

Documenting information making in archaeological field reports

Isto Huvila, Olle Sköld, Lisa Börjesson

Sharing information about work processes has proven to be difficult. This applies especially to information shared from those who participate in a process to those who remain…

Library stories: a systematic review of narrative aspects within and around libraries

Tove Faber Frandsen, Kristian Møhler Sørensen, Lyngroes Fladmose Anne

Libraries are increasingly trying to communicate the library's contributions and telling the library stories. Stories can be a component of impact assessment and thus add nuance…

The potential of feminist technoscience for advancing research in information practice

Kaitlin Light Costello, Diana Floegel

In this paper, we introduce feminist technoscience as an approach that will advance theory in information behavior and practice.

Identifying the future direction of legal deposit in the United Kingdom: The Digital Library Futures approach

Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, Linda Berube

To date, there has been little research into users of the Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013. This paper addresses that gap by presenting key findings from…

Towards complexity-sensitive book metrics for scholarly monographs in national databases for research output

Linda Sīle, Raf Guns, Alesia A. Zuccala, Tim C.E. Engels

This study investigates an approach to book metrics for research evaluation that takes into account the complexity of scholarly monographs. This approach is based on work sets  

An analysis of research methods utilized in five top, practitioner-oriented LIS journals from 1980 to 2019

Brady D. Lund, Ting Wang

This study examines research methods utilized in five practitioner-oriented research journals – College and Research Libraries, Information Technology and Libraries, Journal of…