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Searching for the “sacred cow”: a conceptual analysis of the term in nursing literature
Ann Hallyburton, Paromita BiswasThe idiom “sacred cow” is problematic due to its inaccuracy and cultural insensitivity. The purpose of this paper is to examine the term’s meaning within the nursing literature…
Art as document: on conceptual art and documentation
Jim BerrymanThe purpose of this paper is to bring the work of Seth Siegelaub (1941–2013) to the attention of document studies. Siegelaub was a pioneer of the conceptual art movement in New…
Opera costumes and the value of object biographies
Helen J. Waller, David S. WallerThe purpose of this paper is to observe the nature of documentation and the description used in object biographies by an auction house catalogue and an online museum collection…
A logic-based framework for collection/item metadata relationships
Karen WickettThe purpose of this paper is to present a framework for the articulation of relationships between collection-level and item-level metadata as logical inference rules. The…
Leveraging collective intelligence: from univocal to multivocal representation of cultural heritage
Lala HajibayovaAfter reviewing cultural heritage institutions; crowdsourcing initiatives and tension between univocal and multivocal views of those who interact with cultural expressions, this…
Future strategic considerations and development priorities for national museum libraries
Rupert Nicholas WilliamsThe purpose of this paper is to explore the main strategic considerations facing the libraries of national museums over the next decade, and to examine anticipated future service…
Mentefacts as a missing level in theory of information science
Claudio GnoliThe current debate between two theoretical approaches in library and information science and knowledge organization (KO), the cognitive one and the sociological one, is addressed…
Twinning data science with information science in schools of library and information science
Lin WangAs an emerging discipline, data science represents a vital new current of school of library and information science (LIS) education. However, it remains unclear how it relates to…
The lifeways we avoid: The role of information avoidance in discrimination against people with disabilities
Keren DaliIn the context of increasing interdisciplinarity in academia and professional practice, the purpose of this paper is to focus on the contribution of information science (IS) to…
“Why not use it more?” Sources of self-efficacy in researchers’ use of social media for knowledge sharing
Hussain Alshahrani, Diane Rasmussen PenningtonThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the sources of self-efficacy that researchers rely on when using social media for knowledge sharing and to explore how these sources…
Using electronic information resources to solve cultural translation problems: Differences between students and professional translators
Christian Olalla-SolerThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of electronic information resources to solve cultural translation problems at different stages of acquisition of the…
Digital curation: the development of a discipline within information science
Sarah HigginsDigital curation addresses the technical, administrative and financial ecology required to ensure that digital information remains accessible and usable over the long term. The…
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