Conference Proceedings
Arseneau, Félix & Catherine Guastavino. (2008).
Different perceptions of “Information Design” according to the disciplines and the areas of expertise: analysis of the English scientific literature
Is the field of expertise of the authors who use the expression “Information Design” really influencing the way it is conceived? To our knowledge no study had objectively studied this issue yet. Our analysis of 49 articles using this expression reveals that there is a more consensual perception in some areas than in some others.
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Beheshti, Jamshid, Andrew Large, & Ian Clement. (2008).
Exploring Methodologies for Designing a Virtual Reality Library for Children
Various methodologies have been proposed to design technologies for children in partnership with children. In this paper, we investigate the degree of involvement of children in designing a novel virtual reality application. During the course of three iterations, we involved children in the design process using Informant Design and Informant-Bonded Design methodologies…
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Bossaller, Jenny. (2008).
Does My Opinion Count? Interpretation and Inclusion in a Community Reading Program
The goal of community reading programs is to bring people together around a common text. In an interview, Nancy Pearl, the originator of the city-wide reading programs, said that “Reading and discussing the same book seemed to me to be a perfect way to overcome our superficial differences and understand our common humanity”…
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Bowler, Leanne. (2008).
The Metacognitive Knowledge of Adolescent Students During the Information Search Process
The study used naturalistic methods to investigate the metacognitive knowledge of 10 adolescents as they searched for, selected, evaluated, and used information for a school-based, inquiry project. The study identified thirteen attributes of metacognitive knowledge related to the information search process: Knowing your strengths and weaknesses, knowing that you don’t..
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Budd, John M., Heather Hill, & Brooke Shannon. (2008).
Critical Realism as a Means of Exploring Information Seeking
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Cameron, Tamara. (2008).
Representing Information Use in Educational Settings
This study interrogates the conditions under which students are sent to the library to complete research assignments. Three participants completed a history research project in which they designed researchable topics and sought for sources. Rhetorical genre theory will be used to determine that there is a problem with students writing…
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Chaudhry, Abdus Satta, Zhonghong Wang, & Christopher S.G. Khoo. (2008).
Potential of bibliographic tools for developing organizational taxonomies
Bibliographic tools were used to build an organizational taxonomy in the information studies domain. A classification scheme, three thesauri of indexing terms, and two do-main taxonomies were used to collect categories related to the Information Studies Taxonomy. Classification schemes and thesauri were found helpful in creating the structure and identifying
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Freund, Luanne & Christina Nilsen. (2008).
Assessing a genre-based approach to online government information
In this work we take some first steps to explore the potential value of a genre based approach to improving access to online government information. We report on an analysis of the GOC Type metadata element and controlled taxonomy of genre types in use in the Canadian e-government domain.
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Genuis, Shelagh K. (2008).
Evolving information in an ‘evidence-based’ world: Theoretical considerations
This literature-based critical analysis focuses on evidence-based practice and knowledge translation theory, particularly the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) framework. Perspectives that facilitate exploration of factors influencing information behaviour in situations of uncertain and/or evolving health information are investigated. A medical case study provides context for this study.
Haigh, Maria. (2008).
The “Goodbye Petrovka” Plan: Moral Economy of File Sharing in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Ukraine, the second most populous of the former Soviet republics, had been named as one of the ten “priority countries” with “unacceptable piracy rates.” Kiev’s open-air Petrovka Market has become a symbol for the blatant distribution of pirated books, films, music, and software. As living standards and disposable incomes have…
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Howard, Vivian. (2008).
Teens and Pleasure Reading: A Taxonomy of Young Teen Readers
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Jin, Tao & France Bouthillier. (2008).
Information Behavior of Competitive Intelligence Professionals: A Convergence Approach
Competitive intelligence activities are intensive information behavior. This paper reports a portion of results from a study of how 28 Canadian CI professionals work in the real world, such as the mechanism of their information needs, the types of information that they seek, and the information sources that they use.
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Julien, Heidi & Jennifer Pecoskie. (2008).
Librarians’ Experiences of the Teaching Role: Grounded in Campus Relationships
Fifty-six semi-structured interviews were conducted in academic and public libraries across Canada in a study examining librarians’ experience of the teaching role. This paper focuses on participants’ revelations about the complex relationship between instructional librarians and teaching faculty. These relationships are examined through role theory and symbolic interactionism perspectives.
Julien, Heidi & Shelagh Genuis. (2008).
Affective Experiences of Librarians’ Instructional Work
An analytic lens focused on “affect” was used to examine the experience of librarians doing instructional work in Canadian libraries. As part of larger project, 14 librarians agreed to participate in a process of self-reflection about their instructional experiences, recorded as diary entries over a period of several months.
Kipp, Margaret E.I. (2008).
@toread and Cool: Subjective, Affective and Associative Factors in Tagging
This paper examines the use of non subject related tags in social bookmarking tools. Previous studies of tagging determined that many common tags are not directly subject related but are in fact affective tags dwelling on a user’s emotional response to a document or are time and task…
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Lawson, Keith. (2008).
Libraries as hybrid space
This paper connects some trends and issues in planning and architecture with trends and issues in network design in order to consider the shape of hybrid space—created by the flowing together of spaces and networks. Referring to ideas of space articulated by Manuel Castells and to some of the…
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Li, Ping & Jamshid Beheshti. (2008).
Do doctoral students need instructions on using Google? – An exploratory study
This paper reports on the findings of an exploratory study on doctoral students’ mental models of a search engine and their information seeking behaviour. Semi structured interview and direct observation techniques were used for the research purpose. The findings show that doctoral students can be differentiated in the dimension of…
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Li, Ping & Lin Wu. (2008).
Are health sciences librarians taking the evidence-based medicine challenge?
This study sought to find out whether and how health sciences librarians’ roles have been changing to support the evidence-based medicine (EBM) practice. Both content analysis of job advertisements and literature review were employed. Results revealed that there exist some disconnects between what are expected of health sciences librarians in…
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Maghrebi, Hanène & Amos David. (2008).
Open system for indexing and retrieving multimedia information
Managing the increasing growth of multimedia content still poses some problems. The challenge is to propose relevant information to the users among the large volume of information available. The main idea that drives our approach is to provide an open information retrieval system, which can adapt its results to several…
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Mas, Sabine, Aurélien Bénel, Jean-Pierre Cahier, & Manuel Zacklad. (2008).
Faceted Classification and Multi-Viewpoints Models: Differences and complementarities
Because of their similarities, faceted classification (in Information Science) and multi-viewpoints modelling (in Knowledge Engineering) are often mistaken. This paper presents both theoretical and practical differences. Then it describes their joint use and their complementarities for content management in a large organization.
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Mirzaee, Vanesa, Maryam Najafian Razavi, & Lee Iverson. (2008).
Improving personal and social information management with advanced tagging
This paper describes an innovative tagging model incorporated into a web 2.0 social and personal information management application. Our work utilizes web 2.0 tagging concepts in a new way in an effort to provide better support for users’ needs for contextualization and personalization of their information spaces for both personal…
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Moukdad, Haidar. (2008).
Internet chat rooms: Opinions by the Arab listeners of the BBC
Contributions to a BBC news feedback forum by 94 Arab listeners on “Internet chat rooms” were analyzed. The results show conservative approaches to using these rooms and a cautious outlook towards their effect on society. They also point to differences in male and female views and use of these rooms.
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Pluzhenskaya, Marina. (2008).
LIS and other knowledge domains: interdisciplinary of LIS scholars’ publications (pilot study)
This pilot study focuses on a balance between importing and exporting qualities of LIS. The collected data leads to the conclusion that importing qualities of LIS are still prevailing though rapid change in information technologies attracted attention of scholars and practitioners from many disciplines to LIS. The fact that almost…
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Rankin, Carolynn, Louise Boyle Swiniarski, & Avril Brock. (2008).
The Global Bookshelf for children: an interdisciplinary approach to promoting literacy and education for the global village
The aim of the project is to develop a global education model for The Global Bookshelf for children based on early childhood pedagogy and collection development and management principles from library and information science. Using an action research approach the researchers will compare use of The Global Bookshelf by practitioners in…
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Rhodes, Sarah & Dana Neacsu. (2008).
Preserving and Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digitally Born Legal Information
Written laws, records, and legal materials form the very foundation of a democratic society. Law-makers, legal scholars, and everyday citizens alike need and are entitled to access the current and historic materials that comprise, explain, define, critique, and contextualize their laws and legal institutions. The preservation of legal information in…
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Shiri, Ali & Dale Storie. (2008).
Information Organization and Information Interaction in Social tagging Sites: A Comparative Examination of Interface Features and Functionalities
The aim of this paper is to report on an investigation of information organization and information interaction issues in social tagging sites based on interface features and functionalities. The paper will provide a comparative examination of tag related features and functionalities in ten popular social tagging sites.
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Singh, Rajesh. (2008).
What Kind of Connection Exists Between Marketing Attitudes and Behaviour? A Peep into the Interacting Landscape of the Marketing and LIS World
This paper attempts to find if there is any connection between the marketing attitudes and behaviour of librarians in thirty-three different libraries of Finland. Based on market-oriented behaviour, three kinds of libraries were found: strong, medium and weak. The findings indicate a positive relation between the marketing attitudes and behaviour.
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Smolczewska Tona, Agnieszka. (2008).
Interdisciplinary Study Of Visual And Verbal Cooperation In Technical Document
In this paper, we examine through a multidisciplinary approach – at the crossroad of discourse analysis, semiotics and cognitive psychology – text-figure relations in technical communication. These relations are firstly analysed by means of the inner structure of each mode of expression, privileging an approach inspired by the semiotics. Emphasis is…
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Tabatabaei, Nahid & Jamshid Beheshti. (2008).
Interdisciplinary Outreach of Library and Information Science Research as Reflected in “Essential Science Indicators”
This paper investigates the contribution of LIS research to intellectual growth of other disciplines. 209 highly cited papers has been analyzed to reveal the interdisciplinary patterns. Interdisciplinary journals seem more promising in producing highly cited papers.
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Vaughan, Liwen, Juan Tang, & Jian Du. (2008).
Exploring Web Co-link Patterns for Business Intelligence: The Case of Two Chinese Industries
: The method of Web co-link analysis for business intelligence that was successful in the international environment in previous studies was applied to the Chinese environment to analyze the business competition positions of companies in two Chinese industries. The study was able to map companies into various sectors and show their…
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Willson, Rebekah & Lisa M. Given. (2008).
The Effect of Misspellings on Information Retrieval in Online Public Access Catalogues
Spelling is an important literacy skill, crucial to successful searching in Online Public Access Catalogues (OPACs). Students at the University of Alberta, were given 4 search tasks. They were given a topic and asked to find as many items on that topic in the OPAC as possible. They were allowed
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Yawney, Jilliane. (2008).
Storytelling as a Springboard for Teaching Information Literacy
The objective of this qualitative research project was to determine if storytelling would improve grade four students’ information literacy. A storytelling program was presented to a class of 21 grade four students. This storytelling pro-gram was designed from a constructivist framework and was used to guide the students through Carol…
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Zhang, Lei. (2008).
Approaching Navigational Cues of Web Documents from Relevance Theory and Genre Theory
Based on Relevance Theory proposed by Sperber and Wilson, this research explores genres at multiple levels and its influence on expectations of relevance in interpreting the space particular details occur and in comprehending particular details, and navigation patterns directed by expectations of relevance. It proposes a conceptual model of genre-assisted…
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Zwarich, Natasha & Eun G. Park. (2008).
Policies of Managing Web Resources at the Canadian Government: A Records Management Perspective
As the importance of Web resources has increased greatly to organizations, this study examines the Web management policies and guidelines of five Canadian government agencies, studies the definitions and characteristics of Web resources from a records management perspective and presents the current policies relevant to the appraisal, retention, and preservation…
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