perspective of information studies. The practice of DJing is a musically creative process, where a performance can draw on a vast … information behaviours and critical factors that influence DJs’ planning, decision-making and verification during the pre-performance …, performance and post-performance stages, with particular emphasis on DJs’ performances as a rich site of embodied information …

services in library and information research.  …

preserve a recording of the performance but to keep the work alive by providing the means to re-perform them. The purpose of …

Although the information needs of women receiving antenatal and postnatal care are well understood, few studies have … examined the use of information by minority ethnic women. This paper describes a pilot study that aimed to identify the main … maternity information sources used by Somali women living in a northern city in the UK. The study described here utilised …

This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Internet information on smoking cessation using a cross‐sectional survey … design. The characteristics and content of 89 Web sites containing smoking cessation information were evaluated. The quality … of these sites were measured by the information quality tool (IQT), quality scale (QS) and DISCERN. The most widely …

addressed to a large film archive this study analyses what types of information needs real users have and how these needs are … expressed. The findings include that the requesters make use of a broad range of need attributes in specifying their information … much as 43 per cent of the requests contain no information about the context that gives rise to the request. The current …

underexplored aspect of his career is a lifelong interest in scientific communication, documentation and information science …. Utilising records in the Bernal archive in Cambridge, UK, this paper assesses Bernal's information career. It explores Bernal …‐1949, as figurehead of a co‐ordinated but unsuccessful left‐wing campaign to establish an Institute of Scientific Information …

Information seeking does not occur in a vacuum but invariably is motivated by some wider task. It is well accepted that … to understand information seeking we must understand the task context within which it takes place. Writing is amongst the … most common tasks within which information seeking is embedded. This paper considers how writing can be understood in order …

From the perspective of semiotics, “information” is an ambiguous theoretical concept because the word is used to … theoretical possibilities that open by virtue of understanding information as sign. Of particular interest is the way semiotics … suggests ways to bridge the theoretical gap between information as thing and information as cognitive phenomenon by positing …