The December 2020 issue of Information Research is now available. Alongside the ‘regular’ papers and book reviews, this issue incorporates all the papers and posters from the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference hosted online by the Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa in September.
Members of the Centre for Social Informatics have been eagerly awaiting the publication of volume 25 issue 4 of this journal, and looking forward to seeing six new pieces of their work published in the title. One is a full article in the main section of the journal, and the rest feature as papers and posters in the conference proceedings supplement. They encompass a number of our research interests including information literacy, metaskills, the impact of culture on public library use, and proxied information behaviours. Each is listed below with links to the contributions themselves and presentation material where available.
Talking to imagined citizens? Information sharing practices and proxies for e-participation in hyperlocal democratic settings by Peter Cruickshank and Hazel Hall (article)
- Full text of article available
- See also the blog post Why bother to share information for little visible return…?
Information literacy as a joint competence shaped by everyday life and workplace roles amongst Scottish community councillors by Peter Cruickshank, Hazel Hall, and Bruce Ryan (ISIC2020 conference paper)
- Full text of paper available
- Slides from conference presentation available from Slideshare and below
Investigating the ‘Why?’ rather than the ‘How?’: current research priorities on the influence of culture on new-comer populations’ use of public libraries by Rachel Salzano, Hazel Hall, and Gemma Webster (ISIC2020 conference paper)
- Full text of paper available
- Slides from conference presentation available from Slideshare and below
Assisting information practice: from information intermediary to digital proxy by Peter Cruickshank, Gemma Webster, and Frances Ryan (ISIC2020 conference poster)
- Full text of poster available in conference proceedings
- Slides from conference presentation available from SlideShare and below
The relationship between culture and public library use: non-Western students in Scotland by Rachel Salzano, Hazel Hall, and Gemma Webster (ISIC2020 conference poster)
- Full text of poster available in conference proceedings
- Slides from conference presentation available from Slideshare and below
Towards a definition of metaskills by Katherine Stephen, Laura Muir and Hazel Hall (ISIC2020 conference poster)
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