Journal of Documentation: Volume 68 Issue 5

Communication overload: a phenomenological inquiry into academic reference librarianship

C. Sean Burns, Jenny Bossaller

This study aims to provide insight on the meaning of communication overload as experienced by modern academic librarians. Communication is the essence of reference librarianship…

Internet use increases the odds of using the public library

Pertti Vakkari

The functional equivalence hypothesis suggests that a new communication medium will replace those activities that most closely perform the same functions for users as did the…

Interrupting practices that want to matter: The making, shaping and reproduction of environmental information online

Jutta Haider

This article aims to explore construction, production and distribution of environmental information in social media. Specifically, the focus is on people's accounts in social…

Open source optical character recognition for historical research

Tobias Blanke, Michael Bryant, Mark Hedges

This paper aims to present an evaluation of open source OCR for supporting research on material in small‐ to medium‐scale historical archives.

Coming across information serendipitously – Part 1: A process model

Stephann Makri, Ann Blandford

This research seeks to gain a detailed understanding of how researchers come across information serendipitously, grounded in real‐world examples. This research was undertaken to…

Coming across information serendipitously – Part 2: A classification framework

Stephann Makri, Ann Blandford

In “Coming across information serendipitously – Part 1: a process model” the authors identified common elements of researchers' experiences of “coming across information…

Assessing information taxonomies using epistemology and the sociology of science

Fran Alexander

This paper aims to summarise a literature review undertaken to determine whether or not information taxonomy work, as a specific activity within the broader field of knowledge…

Advances in Information Retrieval

Clare Thornley

Norbert Wiener and voices from the past

David Bawden