Aslib Proceedings: Volume 63 Issue 2/3
Table of contents - Special Issue: UK library and information schools: Sheffield University
Guest Editors: Peter Willett
Linking archival data to location: a case study at the UK National Archives
Paul Clough, Jiayu Tang, Mark M. Hall, Amy WarnerThe National Archives (TNA) is the UK Government's official archive. It stores and maintains records spanning over a 1,000 years in both physical and digital form. Much of the…
Highly focused document retrieval in aerospace engineering: User interaction design and evaluation
Daniela Petrelli, Vitaveska Lanfranchi, Fabio Ciravegna, Ravish Begdev, Sam ChapmanThis paper seeks to describe the preliminary studies (on both users and data), the design and evaluation of the K‐Search system for searching legacy documents in aerospace…
Expanding the concept of requirements traceability: The role of electronic records management in gathering evidence of crucial communications and negotiations
Hui Chen, Miguel Baptista Nunes, Lihong Zhou, Guo Chao PengDespite its tremendous success and achievements, the information science (IS) industry has been plagued by shadows of failure and inefficiency since its early days. This paper…
The use of Grounded Theory in PhD research in knowledge management: A model four‐stage research design
Inaam Idrees, Ana Cristina Vasconcelos, Andrew M. CoxNew PhD researchers sometimes face challenges when attempting to follow Grounded Theory principles to conduct their studies. These challenges may lead them to change its features…
Information and food blogging as serious leisure
Andrew M. Cox, Megan K. BlakeThe purpose of this paper is to explore aspects of creating, seeking, sharing and management of information in food blogging as serious leisure.
Information literacy through inquiry: A Level One psychology module at the University of Sheffield
Pamela McKinney, Myles Jones, Sandra TurkingtonThis paper aims to report on the evaluation of a curriculum development project that took place in the Department of Psychology at the University of Sheffield. The project, funded…
Playing video games: learning and information literacy
Sabina Gumulak, Sheila WebberThis paper aims to identify what motivates young people to play video games, and the extent to which video games are perceived as facilitating learning and information literacy.
Health and social care information for visually‐impaired people
Catherine A. Beverley, Peter A. Bath, Rosemary BarberThe purpose of this study is to examine the health and social care information needs of people with a visual impairment; to identify the health and social care information sources…
Investigating fiction reader characteristics using personal construct theory
Briony BirdiUsing the public library context, this paper seeks to present research identifying perceived characteristics of fiction readers and their associated genres, with a particular…
Developing the legal information professional: A study of competency, education and training needs
Sheila Corrall, James O'BrienLegal information work has expanded with the growth in knowledge management and emergence of a new type of knowledge/information manager, the professional support lawyer. This…
Computer science research in Malaysia: a bibliometric analysis
Aryati Bakri, Peter WillettThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the publications of, and the citations to, the current staff of 19 departments of computer science in Malaysian universities, and to…