Conference Proceedings 

Abba, Seidik, Sylvie Leleu-Merviel, & Elhadj Mamadou Abba Hachimi. (2007). Identification of the information needs of African populations about the AIDS problem
This study explores the conditions and issues of the information needs identification of a population in a sociocultural context where these needs are neither expressed nor even suggested.
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Balicco, Laurence, Marc Bertier, Viviane Clavier, Evelyne Mounier, Céline Paganelli, & Adrian Staii. (2007). Informational practices of the medical staff in university hospital centers: crossroads of the scientific logic and the professional culture
The digital technologies produce important changes in the specialized information practices. This study aims at characterizing the practices of the medical staff in university hospitals. This population is particularly interesting since the informational practices are both a support for the professional activities and a means of continuous formation.

Bao, Xiaowen & France Bouthillier. (2007). Information Sharing: As a Type of Information Behavior
The paper proposes a general definition of information-sharing behavior, which illuminates the characteristics of information-sharing behavior in comparison to other types of information behavior. The paper proposes an approach to measure the level of information sharing in supply chains by integrating its six underlying indicators into a composite index.
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Beheshti, Jamshid, Andrew Large, Ian Clement, & Nahid Tabatabaei. (2007). Evaluating the Usability of a Virtual Reality Information System for Children
We report on a pilot project to evaluate the usability of the VRLibrary, a desktop virtual reality library containing links to websites, depicted as books. While lack of instructions may have prevented the participants in the pilot study from completing the experimental tasks efficiently, they endorsed enthusiastically the VRLibrary.
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Bergeron, Pierrette, Lorna Heaton, Chun Wei Choo, Brian Detlor, Dany Bouchard, & Scott Paquette. (2007). Knowledge and information management practices in knowledge-intensive organizations: A case study of a Québec public organization
This paper examines how a knowledge-intensive organization mobilizes and leverages its knowledge and information capabilities. The results indicate that in terms of information use, culture, and management, the respondents believe that they can use information effectively to solve work problems that their work benefits the organization, and that information sharing…
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Bonnici, Laurie J. & Lynne Watson. (2007). Coffee House as Information Place?
Through observations at two U.S. Starbucks locations and neighboring academic libraries the researchers conducted a comparative analysis of clients engaged in information seeking behaviors. A follow-up survey of client populations revealed reasons for preference of “information place.” Oldenberg’s theory of Third Place provides a lens for analysis of data findings.

Bouchard, Dany. (2007). Organizational dimensions of institutional repositories: a sociotechnique approach
This paper briefly presents our doctoral project. Throughout the role and the responsibilities of academic libraries, we aim to understand the social, economical, institutional and documentary factors influencing the integration of institutional repositories into the information infrastructure of Canadian universities.
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Boulesnane, Sabrina & Laïd Bouzidi. (2007). NICT expressed needs: towards a mediation and capitalization approach of information
This paper proposes an approach of mediation and assistance to interpret the information needs of organizations. This approach is taking into account the users’ information behaviour, their information repositories and the information management which represent their needs concerning the new information and communications technologies.
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Bourret, Christian. (2007). Sharing Information to overcome the institutional and professional frontiers or the challenge of the Health networks of the French Health System
Solving the Health System crisis requires an improvement in information sharing. In France, Health Networks attempt to overcome the frontiers between primary care and hospitals. The asymmetry of information is also expected to be reduced through new cooperative practices developed in collaboration with patients.
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Bouthillier, France, Charles-Antoine Julien, & Tao Jin. (2007). The use of competitive intelligence technology by public sector practitioners
The current study aims to evaluate CI practitioners' use of technology within private and public organizations, and the extent to which technology supports collaboration in the CI process. Specifically, it seeks to determine whether there are differences in use of technology and in its value-added dimensions.

Bowler, Leanne. (2007). Methods for revealing the metacognitive knowledge of adolescent information seekers during the information search process
This paper describes the methods used to investigate the metacognitive knowledge of adolescents, aged 16 to 19, as they searched for, selected and used information for a school-based inquiry project. The study has implications for information literacy instruction and contributes to the understanding of adolescent information-seeking behavior.
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Budd, John M. & Heather Hill. (2007). The Cognitive and Social Lives of Paradigms in Information Science
Thomas Kuhn’s ideas, particularly of paradigm, are used with some frequency in information science. The usages of paradigm and the problematic nature of Kuhn’s thought are explored. Alternatives to Kuhn are suggested as a way out of the confusion his thought leads to.
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Caidi, Nadia & Danielle Allard. (2007). The Everyday Information Practices of New Immigrants to Canada: Findings from the IPEC Study
This research reports on the preliminary findings from the Information Practices of Ethnocultural Communities (IPEC) research project. IPEC examines the everyday information behaviours and social network practices of new immigrants from Chinese, Indian and Iraninan communities in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

Campbell, D. Grant. (2007). The Long Tail of Forgetting: Libraries, the Web 2.0, and the Phenomenology of Memory
This paper uses Ricœur’s phenomenology of memory to compare traditional library information systems and the Web 2.0: social software, tagging systems, file sharing and RSS. Both domains employ strategies of information rentention, searching, evocation and reproduction. But the Web 2.0 utilizes a vague principle of “findability,” which leads to more…
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Cavanagh, Mary. (2007). Re-conceptualizing the ‘reference transaction’ – the case for interaction and information relationships at the public library reference desk
Preliminary data from a larger ethnographic case study using observation and interviewing techniques in 2 reference desk ecologies in a Canadian urban public library are presented. The reference encounter is characterized from a knowledge sharing perspective; the experiential and communication dimensions of the client-staff information relationship are explored.

Chauvin, Sophie, Fabrice Papy, Mohamed Sidir, & Peter Stockinger. (2007). The institutional portal Persée practice-proof: mixing the methodological approaches in Humanities to improve the scientific knowledge sharing in open access
The specific previous studies conducted by 4 teacher-searchers in Information Science and Semiotics find a convergence ground with a study on uses of the institutional portal Persée. Visual ergonomics, hypertext organization, disposition of the semiotics and instrumental communication are the key aspects of this study and form the base of the implementation of the portal new version.
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Collins, Catherine. (2007). Integrating Local Ecological Knowledge into Fisheries Planning and Management: Another Context for Knowledge Management Research?
An integrative review of 121 recent studies on collecting and utilising local ecological knowledge (LEK) for fisheries science and management suggests that insufficient attention is given either to conceptualising LEK or to the critical issue of how LEK is defined. Elements from knowledge management guided the analysis.
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Dufour, Christine. (2007). Continuous evaluation program as a best-fit strategy to disciplinary and professional environments for Library and Information Science schools
University departments gravitate in changing environments. They can gain a strategic advantage by implementing effective continuous program evaluation mechanisms. This communication describes a methodology that exploits resources and processes already in place in departments. This methodology has been validated through different pilot projects from which selected results will be presented.
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Forest, Dominic. (2007). Application of predictive and descriptive text mining techniques for analysis and organization of unstructured documents
In our presentation, we will report the methodology, as well as the final results of a research project which aimed at validating the hypothesis that predictive and descriptive text mining techniques can successfully assist thematic analysis and organization of unstructured documents.

Glänzel, Wolfgang. (2007). On Theory And Application Of Hirsch-Type Indexes
In 2005, J.E. Hirsch proposed a new measure "to quantify an individual's scientific output". He called his measure, which is based on individual citation rank statistics, h-index. It was shown that the h-index correlates with other bibliometric indicators of ‘significance’ but it was also stressed that scientific performance can hardly…

Grad, Roland, Pierre Pluye, Jay Mercer, Bernard Marlow, Michael Shulha, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, &. (2007). Gauging the impact of clinical computer mediated communication: Validation of a new assessment method
A new impact assessment method facilitates knowledge transfer by promoting a two-way exchange between providers of health information and family doctors. Participants reported a high degree of conceptual use of email alerts. Interviews (research-in-progress) will document the meaning of all ten scale items in support of the content validity of the method.

Hudon, Michèle. (2007). Proposal for an alternate structure to organize and access resources in a virtual library in education
Description of the stages of development of a faceted classification structure usable to organize and access a virtual collection of specialized web resources in the field of education. Comments on the results of a first application of the newly established structure.
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Humbert, Pierre, Claire François, Pascal Cuxac, & Amos David. (2007). Visualization of scientific knowledge: integration of the users’ needs
This study examines users’ requirements for integrating them on visualization techniques adapted for scientific knowledge evolution. Our aim consists in optimizing the message conveyed by graphic and dynamic representations through user’s goals and expectations comprehension.

Jin, Tao & France Bouthillier. (2007). What Do Competitive Intelligence Professionals Do? A Pilot Study
Many people have trouble in conceptualizing what competitive intelligence (CI) professionals do. A systemic research is designed to understand how CI professionals work in real life. This paper reports the pilot phase of the project.
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Julien, Charles-Antoine, John E. Leide, & France Bouthillier. (2007). Information Visualization User Testing guided by BASSTEP Approach to Design: Preliminary Results
Reports of information visualization user testing show they are performed when the design is mature and no longer able to change significantly. This communication presents preliminary results from a novel user evaluation method which controls for novelty and learning effects, and is applicable early in the design process.

Julien, Heidi. (2007). Information Literacy Instructors’ Experiences of the Teaching Role
This study of library staff explores their experiences about their teaching roles in the context of information literacy instruction. The specific research question is: how do library staff with instructional roles experience and relate to those roles and what might be the implications of those self-understandings for instructional outcomes?

Khainnar, Smail. (2007). Information needs in the urban approaches: actors fragmentation, complexity and strategies
In an urban project approach, the multiplicity of actors, the complex nature of the urban object, the temporalities generated by this approach, constitute as many elements complexifying the course and the success of this approach. The object of this study is to identify the information needs which are used to enhance the work of the implied actors.
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Kipp, Margaret E.I.. (2007). Tagging Practices on Research Oriented Social Bookmarking Sites
This paper examines the tagging practices evident on CiteULike, a research oriented social bookmarking site for journal articles. Tagging practices were examined using standard informetric measures for analysis of bibliographic information and term use. Additionally, tags were compared to author keywords and descriptors assigned to the same article.
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Large, Andrew, Jamshid Beheshti, Valerie Nesset, & Leanne Bowler. (2007). Children’s Representations of Taxonomic Categories for Application in a Web Portal: An Exploratory Study
This paper presents an exploratory study of four children who were asked to use concept-mapping techniques to arrange 60 concepts in a hierarchical taxonomy. It represents a step towards better understanding children’s categorization in order more effectively to construct taxonomic subject directories for use by children on the Web.
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Larkin, Catherine. (2007). A Study of Information-Seeking Behaviors and Processes in Subsets of Visual Arts Humanities Scholars: Toward a New Model in Image and Text Retrieval
Preliminary findings in Phase I of this project summarized here established that members of four subsets of humanities scholars in the visual arts demonstrated strong similarities in their image retrieval requirements. Therefore the proposed methodology in Phase II is intended to broaden the scope of this ongoing study by examining…
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Mackey, Thomas P. (2007). The Social Informatics of Blog and Wiki Communities: Authoring Communities of Practice (CoPs)
Blogs and wikis are online social spaces for collaborative writing and communication. This paper will examine these technologies from a social informatics perspective to better understand the social dimension of participation behaviors. The pedagogical potential of blog and wiki communities will be explored through the analysis of student survey data.
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Martel, Marie D. (2007). FRBR and the Literary Work
This study seeks to create a bridge between the thought derived from the information science in connection with the concept of work in the context of the FRBR final report, and the thought developed almost simultaneously in relation with this concept, in the Anglo-American philosophy. We believe that the confrontation…

Mas, Sabine & Michèle Hudon. (2007). Classification structures and e-document retrieval: Individual practices and application of the archivist classification principles
Presentation of results of a doctoral research. Analysis of the characteristics of 21 classification structures used by employees to organize and file electronic documents. Differences between various classification structures as to their efficiency for retrieving e-documents.
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Mathieu, Suzanne & James M. Turner. (2007). Audiovision or how to make see the information by blind and visually impaired people: guidelines for describing moving images
This study explores how to improve the access to visual material in audiovisual productions for blind and visually impaired people. We present the main steps of our research and then provide the guidelines which could be submitted to producers of this particular type of content.
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Maurel, Dominique. (2007). Archives information systems and the needs of organizational actors
This communication presents the conceptual framework of a study on how records/archives information systems answer the needs of organizational actors. Factors under consideration cover the organization’s information environment, the cognitive, affective and contextual components of information behaviours, information processing methods, and features of the system-users interface.

McKechnie, Lynne (E.F.). (2007). Spiderman is not for babies (Peter, 4 years): The “boys and reading problem” from the perspective of the boys themselves
Interviews were conducted with 43 Canadian boys, ages 4 to 12 years. The boys’ personal collections of reading and information materials were inventoried. Results indicate that boys are reading but their preferred reading materials (e.g., non-fiction, comic books, game manuals) are not those usually privileged by teachers, librarians and parents.

McKenzie, Pamela J., Rosamund K. Stooke, & Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie. (2007). Learning the library: the work of public library storytime participants
This study uses Lave and Wenger’s concept of legitimate peripheral participation in a community of practice as an analytical framework for analyzing the ways that children, caregivers, and library staff members develop expertise in the ways of storytime and move from being novices to being full participants.
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Mehra, Bharat & Dania Bilal. (2007). International Students’ Perceptions of their Information Seeking Strategies
This study explored the information needs and information seeking strategies of ten Asian graduate students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. Both quantitative and qualitative methods provided students’ assessment of their use of information and communication technologies (search engines, Internet, library website, OPAC, online databases) to make recommendations for…
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Ménard, Elaine. (2007). Study on the Influence of Vocabularies used for Image Indexing in a Multilingual Retrieval Environment
This paper describes a research project aiming to verify the existence of relations between two indexing approaches, traditional image indexing recommending the use of controlled vocabularies or free image indexing using uncontrolled vocabulary, and their respective performance for image retrieval, in a multilingual context. This paper presents the context of…
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Nesset, Valerie. (2007). Grade-Three Students’ Use of Print and Electronic Resources
As part of a larger study into the information behaviour of grade-three students the use of books and the Internet as information sources was investigated. During class time books and other printed sources were used more often than the Internet. This paper looks at possible reasons why.
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Nwakanma, Chukwuemeka dean. (2007). Competence in Information Technology Defined in Terms of Learning Expectations: A Case Study of Database Management
The primary objective of Library and Information Science (LIS) education is to equip LIS graduates with the professional knowledge and skills to select, acquire, organize, store, maintain, retrieve and disseminate recorded information that will be commensurate with the demands of an entry level position (Reitz 2004, 415). LIS education should…

Paganelli, Céline & Evelyne Mounier. (2007). Influence of the work and expertise variables for information access of the professional documents: the case of a banking company documents
This communication explores the information retrieval and access to professional documentation of an organization. An experimental study conducted within a banking company shows differences between the vocabulary contained in the professional documents and the vocabulary used by the employees of this company. These disparities imply difficulties for information access.
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Pajarillo, Edmund J.Y. (2007). Nursing Information Behavior (NIB) in the Context of Help-Seeking
This research explores two elements of the information behavior of homecare nurses, their commonly identified information drivers and frequently used information leads and conduits. Additionally, information behavior is examined in the context of the nurses’ help-seeking motivators.
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Paré, François-Xavier. (2007). The Many Facets of Document Importance: A Case Study of Office Workers
This paper examines the notion of document importance in personal information management. Based on a literature review and the results of a previous study, we propose a typology of the factors that can affect office workers’ perception of the importance of electronic documents. A methodology for testing and refining this model is then described.
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Pluye, Pierre, Roland Grad, Janique Johnson-Lafleur, & Michael Shulha. (2007). Physicians’ concerns about synopses of clinical research
Health professionals may follow original research via synopses received on e-mail. Synopses are written from original studies selected for validity and relevance. We explored professionals’ concerns about synopses (qualitative multiple case study). Of 28 participants, 17 (60.7%) reported concerns: 15 with the content of synopses and four with the format.

Prime-Claverie, Camille, Stéphanie Pouchot, Thierry Lafouge, & Benoît Epron. (2007). Visibility of the scientific production: a scientometric study at the University of Lyon
Informetrics plays an important part in the evaluation of research organizations as well as their policies. In this context, we will share results from a scientometric study on outputs from University of Lyon scientific research centers conducted between 2000 and 2005.
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Rankin, Carolyn, Avril Brock, Carol Wotton, & Edward Halpin. (2007). The Role of the Early Years Librarian in Developing an Information Community: a Case Study of Effective Partnerships and Early Years Literacy within a Sure Start Project in Wakefield
Sure Start is a UK government initiative addressing social exclusion in local communities through a multi-disciplinary team approach. The Early Years Librarian can be a significant team member in responding to child development and early years literacy. A case study of the Wakefield district investigates the role of the Early…
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Richard, Marc & Eun G. Park. (2007). An Assessment of e-Theses Metadata in CARL Institutional Repositories
The goals of this project are: 1) to analyze metadata element sets used by CARL (Canadian Association of Research Libraries) institutional repositories to describe electronic dissertations and theses; and, 2) based on the analysis, to suggest a prototype for metadata schemes to serve as a standard model for further implementation.
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Shiri, Ali, Stan Ruecker, Ximena Rossello, Matthew Bouchard, & Paras Mehta. (2007). Development of A Thesaurus-enhanced Visual Interface for Multilingual Digital Libraries
The aim of this paper is to report on the development of a visual user interface enhanced with a thesaurus to support information retrieval in a multilingual digital library context. The interface provides a design to support seamless access to three spaces, namely thesaurus space, query space and result display space.
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Simpson, Heather & Lisa Given. (2007). Mapping user’s activities and space preferences in the academic business library
Examines patrons’ use of spaces in a small academic library using observation and GIS technology. A questionnaire was used to assess patrons’ perceptions of space use. Results of the study can guide the design of library spaces and help researchers and librarians better understand patrons’ needs in these settings.

Smiraglia, Richard P. (2007). Two Kinds of Power: Insight Into The Legacy Of Patrick Wilson
Among Patrick Wilson’s most influential books was Two Kinds of Power, which has influenced scholars in information science, and particularly in knowledge organization. Tools of domain analysis are used to analyze the corpus of literature that cites Two kinds of power. Aboutness and relevance are demonstrated keys to this specialization.
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Tabatabaei, Nahid & Jamshid Beheshti. (2007). Delineation of Information Retrieval Research Area Using Input-Output Model
Information Retrieval (IR) research has been one of the core research areas of Information Science (IS) and also a major source of interdisciplinary relations between IS and other disciplines, constituting a disjointed research area with fuzzy boundaries. The main purpose of this paper is to identify disciplines that contribute to…
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Tennis, Joseph T. (2007). Diachronic and Synchronic Indexing: Modeling Conceptual Change in Indexing Languages
This paper outlines a model of conceptual change in indexing languages. Findings from this modeling effort point to three ways meaning and relationships are established and then change in an indexing language. These ways: structural, terminological, and textual point to ways indexing language metadata can aid in managing conceptual change in indexing languages.
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Wiseman, Erica. (2007). The institutionalization of knowledge in an organization
In order to strategically manage knowledge in an organization it is critical to understand how knowledge is embedded at the organizational level. However the processes through which new knowledge is actually institutionalized are mainly unspecified. The design of an exploratory study of the process of institutionalizing knowledge will be discussed.

Wolfram, Dietmar & Hope A. Olson. (2007). A Method for Comparing Large Scale Inter-indexer Consistency Using IR Modeling
The authors present a method for comparing indexing consistency between groups of indexers based on the vector space IR model. Terms assigned by indexers are treated as vectors whose distances from a central vector may be compared. The method is outlined and demonstrated with an example.
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Woolwine, David. (2007). Generic Versus Content Dependent Skills
The study claims that timeliness, authority, bias, verifiability, and logical consistency are criteria to be used in the construction of academic products and that practices in regard to the four criteria vary sufficiently among disciplines so that at least some reference to disciplinary content is necessary in teaching information literacy.
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Wust, Markus. (2007). Faculty Attitudes towards Open Access Publishing, E-Print Servers and Institutional Repositories
This qualitative study investigates how faculty gather information for teaching and research and their opinions on open access approaches to scholarly communication. Despite generally favorable reactions, a perceived lack of peer review and impact factors were among the most common reasons for not publishing through open-access forums.
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Yemini–Halevi, Gali. (2007). The Information Needs of Homeless Library Patrons in New York City
Field study discovered some information needs of homeless people visiting public libraries in New York. During summer 2006, reference areas of New York public libraries were observed unobtrusively to track homeless patrons’ use of library resources and services. Findings include the use of resources and services by homeless patrons groups.
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Yi, Kwan. (2007). A Pilot Study of Enhancing Subject Discovery of Textual Web Resources
The aim of this study is to explore to what degree hyperlinked external resources contribute to the automated subject-related term indexing. Empirical evidence shows no additional enhancement of performance with the additional resources. It also implies that target Web pages are closer in subject to siting pages than sited pages.
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Zacklad, Manuel. (2007). Classification, thesaurus, ontologies, folksonomies: A comparison from the Open Information Research perspective
This paper compares several Knowledge Organisations Systems (classifications, thesaurus, formal ontology, semiotic ontology, folksonomy) according to different criteria in order to assess their relevance according to Open Information Research.
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Zwarich, Natasha & Eun G. Park. (2007). E-Mail Management in the Canadian Government: Overview of the Practices from a Records Management Perspective
This study explores the current e-mail management practices from the records management perspective in the Canadian Government. The research specifically focuses on the implementation of the e-mail management principles in government agencies in order to create, receive, maintain, preserve and provide access to e-mail messages.
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