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 …

University libraries are questioning the added value of open shelves with books. As scientific
publications are increasingly available in electronic format, which role do bookshelves have …

This empirical study offers a new theoretical perspective in information behavior research by
identifying interrelationships between certain information behaviors. While previous work …

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 …

A large part of the literature published in the 'Global South'is barely covered by bibliographic
databases. Institutional policies increasingly require researchers globally to publish in …

While computers causing chaos is a common social trope, nearly the entirety of the history of
computing is dedicated to generating order. Typical interactive information retrieval tasks …

When children search for information on a given topic, how do they go about searching for
and retrieving information? What can their information seeking strategies tell us about the …

The physical library shelves are regularly the site of serendipitous information discoveries,
and are often sought out for this purpose. However, while some drawbacks to the shelves as …

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 …

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 …