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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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).
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).
On the traces of documentation: German approach and its pioneers
Tatjana Aparac-JelušićThe main purpose of the paper is to offer a personal view on the development of documentation/information and documentation (IuD) in Germany, while pointing out the need to…
The identity of information science
Vivien PetrasThis paper offers a definition of the core of information science, which encompasses most research in the field. The definition provides a unique identity for information science…
The informative potential of bibliographic classification systems – reflections on a discussion in the French Documentation Movement
Joacim HanssonIn this article, the author discusses works from the French Documentation Movement in the 1940s and 1950s with regard to how it formulates bibliographic classification systems as…
How do you solve a problem like Michael?
Fidelia IbekweCelebrate Michael Buckland's impressive legacy to LIS by showing his humanity, generosity and versatility.
The spectrum of semantic and syntactic labour
Julian WarnerThe article extends the distinction of semantic from syntactic labour to comprehend all forms of mental labour. It answers a critique from de Fremery and Buckland, which required…
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…
Documentation to Documentality in the works of Michael Buckland
Ronald E. DayMichael Buckland's works have spanned theoretical, historical and practice-oriented foci and genre. This article focuses on some of his theoretical-historical works that span over…
Does a name make a difference? The neo-documentalist movement, where does it stand after 27 years 1996–2023
Niels Windfeld LundThe purpose of the paper is to analyze how the Neo-documentalist movement, initiated in 1996 by Michael Buckland, Boyd Rayward and Niels Lund, has evolved in its 27 years history…
The importance of a complementary approach when working with historical documents
Roswitha SkareThe purpose of this study is to show that the neo-documentary – or complimentary – approach in Library and Information Science by no means is conservative, but highly necessary…
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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