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Volume 10 No 1 October, 2004


Editorial

Papers presented at ISIC 2004: the 5th Information Seeking in Context Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 September, 2004

Keynote address:
Information seeking research needs extension toward tasks and technology
Kalervo Järvelin and Peter Ingwersen. [Delivered by Kalervo Järvelin]


Choosing people: the role of social capital in information seeking behaviour
Catherine A. Johnson


A new model of information behaviour based on the Search Situation Transition schema.
Nils Pharo


From information behaviour research to the design of information systems: the Cognitive Work Analysis framework
Raya Fidel and Annelise Mark Pejtersen


Talking about the problem: a content analysis of pre-search interviews
T.D. Wilson


Information behaviour of migrant Hispanic farm workers and their families in the Pacific Northwest
Karen E. Fisher, Elizabeth (Betty) Marcoux, Lupine S. Miller, Agueda Sánchez, and Eva Ramirez Cunningham


'Whoever increases his knowledge merely increases his heartache.' Moral tensions in heart surgery patients' and their spouses' talk about information seeking
Kimmo Tuominen


Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians
Elizabeth Yakel


Information seeking and students studying for professional careers: the cases of engineering and law students in Ireland
Gillian Kerins, Ronan Madden, and Crystal Fulton


Preparing for opening night: temporal boundary objects in textually-mediated professional practice
Elisabeth Davies and Pamela J. McKenzie


The information needs of female Police Officers involved in undercover prostitution work
Lynda M. Baker


Field differences in the use and perceived usefulness of scholarly mailing lists
Sanna Talja, Reijo Savolainen and Hanni Maula


Enthusiastic, realistic and critical: discourses of Internet use in the context of everyday life information seeking
Reijo Savolainen


Information behaviour that keeps found things found
Harry Bruce and William Jones


Discipline, availability of electronic resources and the use of Finnish National Electronic Library - FinELib
Sanna Törmä and Pertti Vakkari

ball Resúmenes en Español


Summaries of the Research Notes presented at ISIC 2004

Click on this link for the separate contents list


Watch this: forms move centre stage. — one of a series of occasional columns by Terrence A. Brooks of the Information School, University of Washington, USA.


Reviews

ball  Gmail. Mountain View, CA: Google, 2004

ball  Huotari, Maija-Leena and Iivonen, Mirja. Trust in knowledge management and systems in organisations. Hershey, PA; London: Idea Group Publishing, 2004.

ball  Khosrow-Pour, Mehdi, (Ed.) Advanced topics in information resources management. Vol 3. London: Idea Group Publishing, 2004.

ball  Lovejoy, Margot. Digital currents: art in the electronic age. London: Routledge, 2004.

ball  Geert Lovink Uncanny networks: dialogues with the virtual intelligentsia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.

ball  Padfield, Tim. Copyright for archivists and users of archives. 2nd ed. London: Facet Publishing, 2004

ball   Spinuzzi, Clay Tracing genres through organizations: a sociocultural approach to information design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003

ball   Story, Derrick Digital photography hacks: 100 industrial-strength tips and tools. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly. 2004.


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Conference announcements

ball A message to Conference organizers.

ALISE 2005 Annual Conference. Boundary Crossings: LIS Education in a Global Context. 11-14 January, 2005, Boston, Massachusetts


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