Journal of Documentation: Volume 80 Issue 1

Does serendipity matter in knowledge management? Organizational sharing and use of encountered information

Sanda Erdelez, Yuan-Ho Huang, Naresh Kumar Agarwal

This study investigated the moderating effect of organizational knowledge management performance on the sharing and use of information encountered by serendipity within the…

Planning, implementing and evaluating research data services in academic libraries: a model approach

Cody Hackett, Jeonghyun Kim

One of the most critical changes to academic library services in the last decade has been the development and implementation of research data services (RDS). This paper seeks to…

Parsing through paradigms: uncertainty and decision-making in human information behavior

Juliana Mestre

This study demonstrates how individual paradigms implicate the questions asked, methods used and results drawn in association with a common object of study in human information…

Socially meaningful transparency in data-based systems: reflections and proposals from practice

Jo Bates, Helen Kennedy, Itzelle Medina Perea, Susan Oman, Lulu Pinney

The purpose is to present proposals to foster what we call a socially meaningful transparency practice that aims to enhance public understanding of data-based systems through the…

The influences of communitarian philosophy in public policy: mapping the discourse of Scottish public library strategy

Colin Paton, David McMenemy

This research investigates the presence of communitarian philosophy within contemporary Scottish public library strategy, exploring links between philosophy, politics and practice.

Capital as the outcome of information practices: a study of devotees and monks of a Theravada Buddhist Temple

Hilary Yerbury, Michael Olsson, Pethigamage Perera

The outcomes of information behaviours have traditionally been conceptualised as use or effects. The adoption of a sociological stance, based on a practices approach, provides the…

Managing Norwegian public libraries as civil public spheres: recent controversies

Håkon Larsen

This paper contains a theoretically inspired discussion of recent Norwegian controversies related to the management of public library space as a civil public sphere.

Addressing the information needs of informal carers in Malawi: a healthcare intervention based on co-creation

Efpraxia D. Zamani, Laura Sbaffi, Khumbo Kalua

The aim of this study was to address the unmet information needs of Malawian informal carers. We report on a three-year project which we co-created with informal carers, medical…

Depiction of library use in video games: a content analysis

Emerson Taylor, Chern Li Liew

Researchers in information studies have examined fictional depictions of libraries in various mediums because these images can reflect and influence real-life experiences and…

Tell me how you write and I'll tell you what you read: a study on the writing style of book reviews

Chiara Alzetta, Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessio Miaschi, Elena Prat, Giulia Venturi

The authors’ goal is to investigate variations in the writing style of book reviews published on different social reading platforms and referring to books of different genres…

Fake news as systematically distorted communication: an LIS intervention

John Buschman

The broader analytical framing of systematically distorted communication (SDC) helps extract value out of the enormous amount of scholarship on fake news.

Pilgrim's progress? A field ethnography of multimodal recording, curating and sharing of the Camino de Santiago experience

Perla Innocenti

Religious and secular pilgrimages present rich opportunities for investigating information activities in an original and intriguing context. While the Information Science…

Exploring perceived online information quality: a mixed-method approach

Boryung Ju, J. Brenton Stewart

The purpose of this study is to examine the quality of information in articles in the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, as perceived by readers and content contributors. This study…

A systematic review of information source preference research

Huan Zhong, Zhengbiao Han

This systematic literature review aims to elaborate on the research progress and features of information source preferences to help other researchers attain a more comprehensive…