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 …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the changing research practices of
historians, and to contrast their experiences of serendipity in physical and digital information …

We investigate historians' experiences with serendipity in both physical and digital
environments through an online survey. Through a combination of qualitative and …

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 …

Many authors have proposed guidelines for online browsing systems, however recently
empirical research has added depth to these requirements. There has also been a spate of …

Browsing is a part of book seeking that is important to readers, poorly understood, and ill
supported in digital libraries. In earlier work, we attempted to understand the impact of …

Studies of data-driven deselection overwhelmingly emphasise the importance of circulation
counts and date-of-last-use in the weeding process. When applied to research collections …

While digital libraries offer essential benefits for the digital age such as constant availability
and accessibility, they often fail in providing a similarly enjoyable browsing experience that …

Many readers claim that the uptake of ebooks by libraries hampers their information seeking
by not affording them the opportunity to browse. Conversely, readers value the convenience …

This paper investigates the life of books on physical library shelves. Most existing data on
the use of library books uses logs to quantify loans, or user interviews to obtain insights into …