Journal of Documentation: Volume 80 Issue 6

The institutional e-lending setup in Scandinavian libraries: logics in play in the eyes of library and policy actors

Maciej Liguzinski, Nanna Kann-Rasmussen

The article investigates the institutional setup of e-lending in public libraries in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Our point of departure is that e-lending has necessitated new…

APRD: action partnership research design: reimagining the role of the user in library and information science research

Valerie Nesset, Elisabeth C. Davis, Nicholas Vanderschantz, Owen Stewart-Robertson

Responding to the continuing separation of participants and researchers in LIS participatory research, a new methodology is proposed: action partnership research design (APRD). It…

Personal cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework for constructing and curating cultural identities through personal collections

Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon

This theoretical paper introduces a conceptual framework for Personal Cultural Heritage Management (PCHM), derived from prior research on migrants' information practices. It…

STEM authorship, user-generated reviews and their impact: legitimate or not?

Lala Hajibayova, Mallory McCorkhill, Timothy D. Bowman

In this study, STEM resources reviewed in Goodreads were investigated to determine their authorship, linguistic characteristics and impact. The analysis reveals gender disparity…

Does information matter? Online discourse on the Yemenite children’s affair in Israel after release of archival documents

Roy Peled, Gal Yavetz

This study evaluates how publicly available archival documents shaped online discussions about allegations that thousands of children were kidnapped during the 1950s in Israel…

Navigating change: an exploration of socio-epistemic process of extending Wikidata ontology with new properties

Marcin Roszkowski

The paper addresses the issue of change in Wikidata ontology by exposing the role of the socio-epistemic processes that take place inside the infrastructure. The subject of the…

Traditional, dialogical and complex scholarly communication: towards a renewed trust in science

Antonella Foderaro, David Gunnarsson Lorentzen

The credibility crisis of science is a growing topic of investigation. This study approaches the problem from the sustainability of the scholarly communication system by merging…

Information seeking and communication model (ISCM): application and extension

Emily Baggs, Kaitlyn O'Neal, Andrew Robson, Lyn Robinson

The paper reports on developments in the Information Seeking and Communication Model (ISCM) since it was first presented in 2013, focussing on how the model, derived by explicitly…

Evolving legitimacy of the public library in the 21st century

Motoko Yamagishi, Masanori Koizumi, Håkon Larsen

The purpose of this research is to comprehensively describe the legitimacy of the public library in the 21st century.

“We are openly, proudly Subjective … This history is important to our contemporary survival”: queer embodied knowledge and the curatorial work of ICT-based LGBTQIA+ history content creators

Travis L. Wagner

This article reports on findings from interviews with ICT-based content creators whose work focuses on documenting and curating queer history and culture. The research…

Democracy: a modern definition for the library field

John Buschman

Due to contemporary threats to democracy, the topic is highly prominent in news and social discourse. The Library and Information Science (LIS) field writes about democracy…

Research on information behavior in communities: a scoping review of community types, featured information behavior and research methods

Jia Tina Du, Qing Ke, Clara M. Chu, Helen Partridge, Dandan Ma

This scoping review article examined research on information behavior in communities over the past two decades (2000–2023). The review aims to uncover the characteristics and…

Provenance and historical warrants: histories of cataloguing at the Museum of Anthropology

Hannah Turner, Nancy Bruegeman, Peyton Jennifer Moriarty

This paper considers how knowledge has been organized about museum objects and belongings at the Museum of Anthropology, in what is now known as British Columbia, and proposes the…

Readers' advisory vs reference: a difference of stance

E.E. Lawrence, Virginia Sharpe

The purpose of this paper is to determine how we ought to distinguish between reference and readers' advisory (RA) service, given the latter’s turn toward a whole collection…

Building bridges and preserving voices: key factors in community oral history stewardship

Jeonghyun Kim, Ana Roeschley, Mimi Byun

The study aims to enhance our understanding of shared community oral history stewardship by exploring its practices and challenges from the perspectives of the stakeholders…

Learning to search and learning to slow down or “The quick and the dead”

Renee Morrison

This study examines the temporal dynamics shaping our understanding of search in education and the role language plays in legitimising these dynamics. It critiques the way online…

Information search process model based on costs and benefits: a behavioural economics perspective

Jinglin Qi, Zhengbiao Han, Preben Hansen

This study constructed an information search process model based on costs and benefits to reflect different information search processes under different decisions from a…

Constructing risk in trustworthy digital repositories

Rebecca D. Frank

This article investigates the construction of risk within trustworthy digital repository audits. It contends that risk is a social construct, and social factors influence how…

Converting and evolving a subject heading list into a thesaurus

Maria Teresa Guaglianone, Giovanna Aracri, Maria Taverniti

The objective of this paper is to describe the evolution of the available subject heading list, i.e. the CC Soggettario (Carabinieri Corps Soggettario), towards a thesaurus, that…

Barriers and facilitators to research data sharing: a lifecycle perspective

Zilong He, Wei Fang

This study investigates the multifaceted barriers and facilitators affecting research data sharing across the research data lifecycle. It aims to broaden the understanding of data…

Professional identity of public librarians, archivists and museum professionals in five European countries

Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Jamie Johnston, Kerstin Rydbeck, Andreas Vårheim, Isto Huvila, Máté Tóth, Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Anna Mierzecka

The purpose is to investigate the professional identity of public library, archive and museum (LAM) professionals in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Norway and Sweden.

“The changing same” of whiteness in the US LIS academy: a cathartic testimonial from BIPOC faculty scholars

Vanessa Irvin, Kafi D. Kumasi, Kehinde Akinola

There is little to no empirical research on the phenomenon of ways in which the racism of whiteness transpires within the faculties and classrooms of US-based ALA-accredited…

User-centred collection metadata: from images as information to facilitating socio-affective connections

Cassandra Kist, Maria Economou

As museums and other memory institutions continue to invest considerably in mass-digitising collections and participating in large search portals, it is essential to understand…

Information experiences of bonsai growers: a phenomenological study in serious leisure

Yazdan Mansourian

The paper reports the findings of a research project exploring the information experiences of bonsai growers in Australia as an example of a serious leisure pursuit.

Is libraries' use of social media ethical? A phenomenographic investigation of Twitter (X) use at the Bodleian Libraries

Ross Jones, Briony Birdi

Social media (SM) has been heavily criticised in recent years for its damaging effects on societies globally. Tasked with empowering those same societies, libraries’ continued use…