Little is known about how readers select books, whether they be print books or ebooks. In
this paper we present a study of how people select physical books from academic library …

Purpose–Lending novels is the major service provided by public libraries. The efforts in
developing search systems have been focused on retrieving non-fiction. There is a need for …

Libraries increasingly offer much of their collection online, rendering it invisible or
unavailable to readers who, for reasons of information experience, prefer to browse the …

Churches have historically played an important role in Black American communities,
catalyzing the pursuit of aims such as social justice, community organization, and health …

Real-world information needs are generally complex, yet almost all research focuses on
either relatively simple search based on queries or recommendation based on profiles. It is …

Online misinformation is a fiendish problem. Demonstrably false information propagates
faster and more widely than truth and this has heralded a technological arms race. One …

Considerable attention has been paid to how readers find, triage, navigate and read
periodical material such as journal articles. Until recently however, applying these questions …

Digital library research has demonstrated the impact of content presentation on both search
and reading behaviours. In this paper, we scrutinise the influence of ebook presentation on …

When searching within an academic digital library, a variety of information seeking
strategies may be employed. The purpose of this study is to determine whether graduate …

Library shelf browsing is a much-loved but little-understood form of information seeking.
Attempts have been made to replicate or replace it online, however they have not typically …