Journal of Documentation: Volume 79 Issue 2

The width and depth of literacies for tackling the COVID-19 infodemic

Tibor Koltay

A wide choice of varied information and data-based tools is reviewed in order to determine their ability treating symptoms of the COVID-19 infodemic. Several literacies and…

Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study

Sarah Hargreaves, Laura Sbaffi, Nigel Ford

This paper both supports previous findings relating to, and presents new insights into: the information needs and the information seeking processes of a sample of informal…

“Bloody amazing really”: voices from Scotland’s public libraries in lockdown

Peter H. Reid, Lyndsay Mesjar

The research examined Scottish public libraries and the libraries' response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic of 2020–2021. The research focussed particularly…

What do they make us see: a comparative study of cultural bias in online databases of two large museums

Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet, Inna Kizhner, Sara Minster

Large cultural heritage datasets from museum collections tend to be biased and demonstrate omissions that result from a series of decisions at various stages of the collection…

Existential dependence relations of documents in the context of preservation

Ryo Shiozaki

This paper re-examines the ontology of documents, especially digital ones, in the context of preservation, which presumes the actual existence of things. It also explores which…

The information behaviours of disadvantaged young first-time mothers

Steven Buchanan, Cara Jardine

The purpose of this study is to explore the information behaviours of socioeconomically disadvantaged young first-time mothers, an understudied and at-risk group (health and…

Library as place: conceptual model for public libraries and their transition

Marika Kawamoto, Masanori Koizumi

In this information age, demonstrating the significance of physical libraries is increasingly important. The roles and functions of libraries have been discussed using the concept…

Mementos from digital worlds: video game photography as documentation

Alex C. Urban

Video game players, equipped with image capturing and rendering features, are taking photographs within digital worlds. This study examines video game photography as a documentary…

The reader as subjective entropy: a novel analysis of multimodal readability

Amanda S. Hovious, Brian C. O'Connor

The purpose of this study was to explore the viability of transinformation analysis as a multimodal readability metric. A novel approach was called for, considering that existing…

Promoting transformative encounters in libraries and archives

Carli V. Lowe

In several existing studies of Information Encountering (IE), a recurring sub-phenomenon of serendipity arises that indicates the potential for certain unexpected encounters with…

The mental health information needs of Chinese university students and their use of online resources: a holistic model

Xuguang Li, Xiaoying Luo, Andrew Cox, Yao Zhang, Yingying Lu

This research aims to explore the nature of Chinese students' mental health information needs and to identify the online resources they use to meet those needs.

A grounded theory of information exclusion and information inclusion: framing the information experience of people seeking asylum

Kahina Le Louvier, Perla Innocenti

This paper discusses an original theory of information exclusion and information inclusion, which explains how information interactions can be structured in ways that either…

Topics and changing characteristics of knowledge organization research in the 21st century: a content analysis

Li Si, Yi He, Li Liu

Knowledge organization (KO) has been advancing at a progressively rapid pace under the influence of information technology. This study aims to explore the topics, characteristics…

Challenging the problem of un-democratic participation: from destruction to re-construction of heritage

Ina-Maria Jansson

The present study aims to contribute to the understanding of digital participation in heritage collections as a democratizing practice by identifying and challenging silent…