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The public library “for all”? A typology of the ranging notions of “for all” in public libraries in Norway and Denmark
Anne-Sofie Elbrønd Nissen, Nanna Kann-RasmussenThis article explores the ranging notions of a public library for all and the related conflicts on for all and the principle of neutrality in Norway and Denmark.
Understanding complex casual leisure information needs: an analysis of search requests for books, games, movies and music
Toine Bogers, Maria Gäde, Marijn Koolen, Vivien Petras, Mette SkovIn this paper, we introduce the CRISPS (CRoss-domaIn relevance aSPects Scheme) coding scheme for complex information needs in the four leisure domains of books, games, movies and…
A review of the literature on spirituality and religion in information research – 1990 to 2022
Pranay Nangia, Ian RuthvenMore than eight in ten people worldwide identify with a religious group. In addition, people often engage with spiritual and religious content despite having no formal beliefs or…
Cognition, horizon and practice: formation of the nonsynchronism in theoretical research of information science
Fang Wang, Hongzhi ZhuThe nonsynchronism in theoretical research of information science (IS) is an interesting phenomenon that has not been sufficiently examined. This study is to reveal the mechanism…
Resistance and collaboration within the panoptivarsity: differing views of ORCID in Ireland
Frank Houghton, Allen Edward FosterORCID is well recognised as a Persistent Identifier (PID) amongst the global academic community. The international literature is generally extremely positive towards this…
Socio-cultural challenges in collections digital infrastructures
Marco Humbel, Julianne Nyhan, Nina Pearlman, Andreas Vlachidis, JD Hill, Andrew FlinnThis paper aims to explore the accelerations and constraints libraries, archives, museums and heritage organisations (“collections-holding organisations”) face in their role as…
Bibliographical foundations of information science: a review essay
Birger HjørlandThe narrow purpose of this article is to review de Fremery’s (2024) book about the bibliographic foundations of information science. The broader purpose is to consider the actual…
Negotiating neutrality and activism in Norwegian public libraries: the case of environmental sustainability
Espen Eigil Barratt-Due SolumThis article explores how Norwegian public libraries negotiate neutrality and activism in response to national policy implementing the United Nations (UN) goals for sustainable…
A conceptual model for tracking the provenance of activities in knowledge organization systems
Inkyung Choi, Yi-Yun ChengThe purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model, ProvKOS, for tracking the provenance of change activities in a knowledge organization system (KOS). By extending…
Playlists and genre: the role of music genre in Spotify’s playlists
Callum McDonald, Allen Edward Foster, Pauline RaffertyGenre is a valuable access point for popular music collections; however, the blurring of genre boundaries combined with changing listening habits and new forms of classification…
Long-term needs, long-term access? Major crime recordkeeping and the information needs of individuals bereaved by homicide
Lauren Benton, Anna SextonThe article presents research on the long-term information needs of homicide bereaved individuals in the context of record-keeping practice within Major Crime Units (MCU) in…
Documentation as part of substance use rehabilitation: how workers account for the significance of documentation during interviews
Kirsi Günther, Eeva Ekqvist, Katja KuusistoThe focus of this article is in documentation in substance abuse inpatient rehabilitation. Our article scrutinizes how workers give accounts of the documentation in the inpatient…
“That looks like something I would do”: understanding humanities researchers’ digital hoarding behaviors in digital scholarship
Mingxia Jia, Yuxiang Chris Zhao, Xiaoyu Zhang, Dawei WuIn the era of digital intelligence, individuals are increasingly interacting with digital information in their daily lives and work, and a growing phenomenon known as digital…
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