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Volume 12 No 2 January, 2007
Editorial
Papers presented at ISIC 2006: the 6th Information Seeking in Context Conference, Sydney, Australia, 19-21 July, 2006 — Part III
Keynote Address
Chun Wei Choo
Information seeking in organizations: epistemic contexts and contests
Zahed Bigdeli
Iranian engineers' information needs and seeking habits: an agro-industry company experience
Karen E. Fisher, Carol F. Landry and Charles Naumer
Social spaces, casual interactions, meaningful exchanges: 'information ground' characteristics based on the college student experience
Jarkko Kari
Conceptualizing the personal outcomes of information
Christopher S.G. Khoo, Brendan Luyt, Caroline Ee, Jamila Osman, Hui-Hui Lim and Sally Yong
How users organize electronic files on their workstations in the office environment: a preliminary study of personal information organization behaviour
A.D. Madden, B. Eaglestone, N.J. Ford and M. Whittle
Search engines: a first step to finding information: preliminary findings from a study of observed searches.
Eric M. Meyers, Lisa P Nathan and Matthew L. Saxton
Barriers to information seeking in school libraries: conflicts in perceptions and practice
Makiko Miwa and Noriko Kando
A naïve ontology for concepts of time and space for searching and learning
Ophelia T. Morey
Health information ties: preliminary findings on the health information seeking behaviour of an African-American community
Shunsaku Tamura, Makiko Miwa, Yasunori Saito, Mika Koshizuka, Yumiko Kasai, Mamiko Matsubayashi and Nozomi Ikeya
Information sharing between different groups: a qualitative study of information service to business in Japanese public libraries
Nei-Ching Yeh
A framework for understanding culture and its relationship to information behaviour: Taiwanese aborigines' information behaviour
Kyunghye Yoon
A study of interpersonal information seeking: the role of topic and comment in the articulation of certainty and uncertainty of information need
Other peer-reviewed papers
Flávia Ferreira, Joanice Nascimento Santos, Lucyana Nascimento, Ricardo Sodré Andrade, Susane Barros, Jussara Borges, Helena Pereira da Silva, Othon Jambeiro, Fábio Ferreira and Bethany Lynn Letalien
Information professionals in Brazil: core competencies and professional development
Elea Giménez Toledo and Susana Torrado Morales
El efecto de las noticias de alto impacto en los servicios de documentación: el caso del atentado terrorista del 11 de marzo de 2004 en Madrid en la prensa española.
José Manuel Ortega Egea, Manuel Recio Menéndez and María Victoria Román González
Diffusion and usage patterns of Internet services in the European Union
Paulina Junni
Students seeking information for their Master's theses: the effect of the Internet
Bo-Christer Björk
A model of scientific communication as a global distributed information system
 Case studies in open access publishing. Number two.
David J. Solomon
Medical Education Online: a case study of an open access journal in health professional education.
Resúmenes en Español
Watch this: artisanal animation — one of a series of occasional columns by Terrence A. Brooks of the Information School, University of Washington, USA.
Looking for something else?
Reviews
Abramson, B. Digital phoenix: why the information economy collapsed and how it will rise again. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
Bryson, Jo. Managing information services: a transformational approach. 2nd ed. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.
Cassell, Kay Ann and Hiremath, Uma. Reference and information services in the 21st century: an introduction. London: Facet Publishing. 2006.
Cullen, Rowena. Health information on the Internet: a study of providers, quality, and users. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 2006.
Hill, L.L. Georeferencing. The geographic associations of information. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
Hoekman, R. Designing the obvious: a common sense approach to Web application design Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2006.
Kaptelinin, V. & Nardi, B.A. Acting with technology: activity theory and interaction design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
McFarland, D.S. CSS: the missing manual Sebastopol, CA: Pogue Press; O'Reilly, 2006; and Schmitt, C. CSS cookbook.Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly, 2006.
Markless, Sharon and Streatfield, David. Evaluating the impact of your library. London: Facet, 2006.
Pogue, D. & Biersdorfer, J.D. The Internet: the missing manual Sebastopol, CA: Pogue Press; O'Reilly, 2006
Sunstein, C.R. Infotopia: how many minds produce knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Taparanoff, Kira (Org.). Inteligência, informação e conhecimento. [Intelligence, information and knowledge]. Brasília: IBICT, UNESCO, 2006.
What's in the open access e-journals?
Conference announcements
A message to Conference organizers.
12th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (iSHIMR). July 18 - 20, 2007. Sheffield, UK
CoLIS 6: Featuring the future. 13-16 August, 2007, Borås, Sweden.
Information Seeking in Context, 17-20 September, 2008, Vilnius, Lithuania
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