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No value-in-itself in About and on Behalf of Scriptum Est : A response to Steven Laporte’s review

Suominen, Vesa - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 6, pp. 1380-1386

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to comment on Steven Laporte’s review of About and on Behalf of Scriptum Est by Suominen with the aim of clarifying conceptual confusions related to the notion of constitutive and the notion of value-in-itself in the review. Design/methodology/approach The...

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Phenomenology and information studies

Budd, John M. - In: Journal of Documentation 61 (2005) 1, pp. 44-59

Purpose – To examine work on phenomenology and determine what information studies can learn and use from that work …. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a literature‐based conceptual analysis of pioneering work in phenomenology … – The literature on phenomenology contains thought that is directly relevant to information studies and information work …

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Information literacy and knowledge management at work : Conceptions of effective information use at NHS24

Toledano O'Farrill, Rubén - In: Journal of Documentation 66 (2010) 5, pp. 706-733

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore theoretically and empirically the concept of workplace information literacy (IL) and its connections to knowledge management (KM), and to examine the applicability of the mainstream institutional IL frameworks (American Library Association, The...

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Communication overload: a phenomenological inquiry into academic reference librarianship

Sean Burns, C.; Bossaller, Jenny - In: Journal of Documentation 68 (2012) 5, pp. 597-617

Purpose – This study aims to provide insight on the meaning of communication overload as experienced by modern academic librarians. Communication is the essence of reference librarianship, and a practically endless array of synchronous and asynchronous communication tools (ICTs) are available...

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Document phenomenology: a framework for holistic analysis

Gorichanaz, Tim; Latham, Kiersten F. - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 6, pp. 1114-1133

as an epistemic aim of documents, which can be approached through phenomenology. Findings A phenomenological framework …

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Research and practice : A critical reflection on approaches that underpin research into people's information behaviour

Hepworth, Mark; Grunewald, Philipp; Walton, Geoff - In: Journal of Documentation 70 (2014) 6, pp. 1039-1053

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical discussion on the nature of research into people's information behaviour, and in particular the contribution of the phenomenological approach for the development of information solutions. Design/methodology/approach – The approach...

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Third-party classification : Exposing likeness between satellites dishes, troll figurines and mass-produced bedspreads in a Romanian local museum

Klimaszewski, Cheryl - In: Journal of Documentation 72 (2016) 1, pp. 156-171

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to foreground the ways in which material objects emerged as a kind of classificatory force during a visit to a local museum in rural Romania. It considers ways in which classification both influences and is influenced by the spatio-temporal assemblages of...

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Re-conceiving time in reference and information services work: a qualitative secondary analysis

Bossaller, Jenny; Burns, Christopher Sean; VanScoy, Amy - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 1, pp. 2-17

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the sociology of time to understand how time is perceived by academic librarians who provide reference and information service (RIS). Design/methodology/approach This study is a qualitative secondary analysis (QSA) of two phenomenological studies about...

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“How didst thou come beneath the murky darkness?”: sense-making in light of the ancient Greeks and in the spirit of Hegel

Gross, Margaret - In: Journal of Documentation 79 (2023) 6, pp. 1369-1379

again in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit before the idea is picked up again in twentieth century philosophy and library …

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Information and experience, a dialogue

Gorichanaz, Tim - In: Journal of Documentation 73 (2017) 3, pp. 500-508

Purpose Scholars in information science have recently become interested in “information experience,” but it remains largely unclear why this research is important and how it fits within the broader disciplinary structure of information science. The purpose of this paper is to clarify this...

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