Librarians like to know how professionals find and use information and have extensively studied the information-seeking behaviors of a variety of professions, including those involved with the sciences. This paper examines ...

This paper is part of an ongoing project examining classification and control of knowledge from local populations. This paper explores the effects of language-diversity erosion on subject access, classification schema and ...

In the summer of 2008 Rosalie C.F. Rippey, Director of Communications and Marketing, and Stephanie Brunner Lynge, Associate Director of Church and Community Relations, contacted members of the UIUC Graduate School of Library ...

A community engagement project with two sides: helping to create an orientation packet for students studying abroad in Sao Tome, Africa, and a bibliography of materials related to Malaria research.

The New Horizons Media Initiative is a multi-sponsor initiative to establish a unique educational, research, communication and outreach resource for the UIUC campus, East-Central Illinois, other U of I campuses, and ...

A community engagement project with the WRFU radio station at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

The Sears, Roebuck and Co. mail-order catalog brought a full service department store to more than 12 million homes in the United States by the middle of the twentieth century. More than one third of those households were ...

Through a description of a specific research design, the author details various merits of qualitative research. Using concrete examples from an actual research project on the use of computers by individuals over the age ...

In the information era inequality is increasingly dictated by a myriad of issues related to both access and use of computer and internet technologies. Mere access to the web is an indisputably insufficient claim to equity; ...