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Informational balance: Slow principles in the theory and practice of...

AbstractPurpose - The study investigates whether the principles of the Slow Movement may be applied to information behaviour.Design/methodology/approach - The study uses three methods: a literature...

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Interpreting the world across a boundary: The evolution of information from...

AbstractPurpose - This paper examines the association between information and boundaries. Life depends on boundaries; but in order to survive an organism needs to make decisions based on an...

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The National Library of Singapore: creating a sense of community

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of the paper is to investigate the role of the National Library of Singapore in the life of Singaporeans.Design/methodology/approach - The paper uses historical research....

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Models explaining the perceived outcomes of public libraries

AbstractPurpose - The benefits of public libraries as perceived by adults in everyday activities, in cultural activities and in career are modeled by multivariate techniques.Design/methodology/approach...

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The Impact of mobile tablet devices on human information behaviour

AbstractPurpose - Mobile computing devices are a significant access point for information activities. Theories and models of human information behaviour have developed over several decades but have not...

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A Tale of Two Images: The Quest to Create a Story-based Image Indexing System

AbstractPurpose - This conceptual paper considers the possibility of designing a story-based image indexing system based on users’ descriptions of images. It reports a pilot study which uses users’...

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A model of uncertainty and its relation to information seeking and retrieval...

AbstractPurpose - This study was undertaken to show that uncertainty may be caused not only by a knowledge gap in the mind of a user with respect to a given subject or topic, but also by the various...

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Characteristics of Human Perception and their Relevance When Studying...

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this article is to highlight findings regarding human perception in allied disciplines and to argue that information behaviour research needs to find ways to address...

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Experiencing Documents

AbstractPurpose - This paper was written to invite further consideration of how people experience documents. By offering a model from Reader Response theory—Louise Rosenblatt’s Transactional Theory of...

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Clownpants in the Classroom? Hypnotizing Chickens? Measurement of Structural...

AbstractPurpose - This paper considers the structure of entertainment media as a possible foundation for measuring aspects of visual presentations that could enhance or interfere with audience...

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An Information Meta-State Approach to Documentation

AbstractPurpose - The purpose of this paper is to bring both Simondonian and Deleuzian insights to bear upon the nature of documents and documentation by viewing them as non-representationalist, and as...

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