The papers in this e-book constitute a selection of those delivered at the first national conference of the United Kingdom chapter of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO). The conference, "Content architecture: exploiting and managing diverse resources", was held at...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a study that examined the perceived credibility of blogs on the internet and the medical information published in them as perceived by the readers of these blogs. Design/methodology/approach – A total of six blogs each with two posts were...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Library and Information Science (LIS) students' patterns of Facebook use are affected by personality characteristics (e.g. extroversion, introversion, self‐esteem) and by their perceptions about Facebook. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to present network visualisation as a way to analyse and to test the design of a website. Design/methodology/approach – A network graph of the access to the webometrics.info site from its web logs was analysed. Several graphs (navigational and query graphs)...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how healthcare professionals search for and select the medical images they need within medical settings. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 29 healthcare professionals participated in the study. Using a think‐aloud technique and...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to describe a collaborative project organised by Bilkent University Library, Turkey, to produce a series of instructional videos that are both informative and entertaining and also serve to market the library. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

Purpose – The aim of the study reported in this paper is to evaluate 71 library association web sites using 15 selected Webometric criteria. Design/methodology/approach – The study uses Webometric analysis and ranking based on a scaling method and comparative means analysis (One Way ANOVA),...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine different aspects of information seeking behaviour, and specifically the information seeking behaviour and information needs of Indian astronomy/astrophysics academics, including the relationship between various variables such as academic,...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate the personal information management (PIM) practices of students and its implications for library services at the University of Ghana. Design/methodology/approach – This was a survey research, and questionnaires were administered to 150...

Purpose – The aim of this study is to investigate the creation of a virtual presence in personal blogs through self‐presentation and self‐disclosure. Five elements of self‐presentation and self‐disclosure were examined: the way bloggers present themselves in their blogs; the degree and...