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The once and future editorial
David Bawden– The purpose of this paper is to discuss the changing nature of abstracts in scholarly journals, with particular reference to Journal of Documentation.
Expeditions through image jungles: The commercial use of image libraries in an online environment
Ayse Göker, Richard Butterworth, Andrew MacFarlane, Tanya S Ahmed, Simone StumpfSearching for appropriate images as part of a work task is a non-trivial problem. Journalists and copywriters need to find images that are not only visually appropriate to…
The everyday life information seeking behaviours of first-time mothers
Katherine Loudon, Steven Buchanan, Ian RuthvenThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the everyday life information seeking behaviours of first-time mothers, as they encounter new, significant and pressing information…
Ethnomethodology: Foundational insights on the nature and meaning of documents in everyday life
Ciaran B. TraceThe purpose of this paper is to argue that researchers in the information disciplines should embrace ethnomethodology as a way of forming deeper insights into the relationship…
Infrastructure and the experience of documents
Daniel CarterThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to understandings of how documents are experienced by looking to work in reception studies for methodological examples. Based on a…
The functional requirements for community information
Philip HiderThe purpose of this paper is to consider the nature of community information (CI) and proposes a data model, based on the entity-relationship approach adopted in the Functional…
Language in the information-seeking context: A study of US scholars using non-English sources
Carol Sabbar, Iris XieThe purpose of this paper is to specifically investigate information seeking strategies that are used by scholars in the USA conducting research in languages other than English…
Reading as dialogical document work: possibilities for Library and Information Science
Anna Hampson Lundh, Mats DolatkhahThe purpose of this paper is to introduce a dialogically based theory of documentary practices and document work as a promising framework for studying activities that are often…
Borrowing tools from the public library
Jonas SöderholmThe purpose of this paper is to investigate tool lending library patrons’ perception of their tool borrowing, in order to explore the role of a public lending service in the…
Third-party classification: Exposing likeness between satellites dishes, troll figurines and mass-produced bedspreads in a Romanian local museum
Cheryl KlimaszewskiThe purpose of this paper is to foreground the ways in which material objects emerged as a kind of classificatory force during a visit to a local museum in rural Romania. It…
Transgender information behaviour
Aira Maria Pohjanen, Terttu Anna Maarit KortelainenThe purpose of this paper is to explore information behaviour and the information barriers transgendered people encounter. This study produces new information about the…
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- Prof David Bawden