Background: The NHS is undergoing major change and libraries are not sheltered from the impact of this change. The demands of evidence based practice and clinical governance mean that librarians are increasingly expected ...

This article explores informal information exchange in social care, and discusses implications for formal monitoring with an electronic social care record (ESCR). Six homecare settings were studied over 14 months between ...

Abstract The model for evidence based library and information practice makes assumptions about the way librarians should use evidence to inform decisions. This study explores how academic librarians actually use evidence ...

Abstract The research investigates the information and image seeking behaviour of Art and Design students in a further education setting. Three research questions were asked: 1. What is the process by which ...

Indexing and information retrieval work properly only if language and interpretation are shared by creator and user. This is more complex for non-verbal media. The authors of Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works explore ...

Summary The purpose of this research is to explore current use of social networking sites (SNSs) amongst the student population of Aberystwyth University, with particular respect to information-sharing and privacy behaviours, ...

This investigation aims to delineate a contemporary profile of IM within the UK through the comparison of content analyses of IM course curricula and IM job advertisements. The objectives of the investigation were, to ...

Aims and objectives Discusses findings from doctoral research on the information behaviour of homecare workers and their clients. The paper focuses on the findings, which have implications for health library and information ...

This article explores the relationship between the concept of uncertainty in information seeking, within a model of the problem-solving process proposed by Wilson (1999a) and variables derived from other models and from ...

This article is the fifth in a series of articles from our study examining information-seeking behavior in relation to information-retrieval (IR) interaction. This article focuses on the examination of the interaction ...