Information behavior the world over has rapidly changed with the increasing and enormous popularity of information and communication technologies (ICT). Newer technology such as the internet and computers has allowed for ...

Web advertising (ads) is currently a big issue for information seeking behavior on the Internet. Since websites are an important source of information in our daily lives, the websites have become popular media for advertising. ...

Given that digital libraries bring together technology, information, and the people using the information, it can easily be argued that i-schools should play a central role in educating DL professionals. This study examines ...

This poster presents preliminary results of an exploratory qualitative research. The hypothesis of this study is that affordances provided by image-enabled communication practices (i.e. drawing) create salient or ...

This paper explores the impact of national culture on knowledge sharing activities in global virtual collaboration. In specific, the Chinese culture is examined.

To identify what information resources the professors use to support their research activities and how they use them in the electronic age, this paper surveyed 637 faculty members from five research universities across ...

In this paper I present preliminary findings from research on the design and use of interorganizational information systems being developed to facilitate information sharing among criminal justice agencies, called IJIS. ...

We analyze the publication co-authorship network of an iSchool faculty community using ‘Social Identity Theory’ as the theoretical lens. Initially, we discuss the need for a theoretical framework to analyze and interpret ...

The Semantic Web promises powerful new functionality for bibliographic databases by combining bibliographic informa- tion with knowledge about the world. However, the kinds of representation that are possible in Semantic ...

This poster addresses the iConference themes of “What is ‘engagement’ in a research institution?” and “personal information management.” It presents findings from a qualitative study of information behaviors in a population ...