Using a longitudinal focus group methodology to measure the value and impact of public libraries (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Appleton, L., Duff, A. S., Hall, H., & Raeside, R. (2017, July). Using a longitudinal focus group methodology to measure the value and impact of public libraries. Presented at 12th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries

Introduction
There is a general acceptance that public libraries contribute to ‘community’, and at least have the potential to have a very positive impact on civil society. (Varheim, 2007). This ‘impact’ is longitudinal, or ongoing, in that library... Read More about Using a longitudinal focus group methodology to measure the value and impact of public libraries.

The Human Position in an Artificial World: creativity, ethics and AI in knowledge organization. ISKO UK Sixth Biennial Conference London, 15-16th July 2019 (2019)
Book
Haynes, D., & Vernau, J. (Eds.). (2019). The Human Position in an Artificial World: creativity, ethics and AI in knowledge organization. ISKO UK Sixth Biennial Conference London, 15-16th July 2019. Ergon Verlag

Haynes, David – Vernau, Judi (eds.) The Human Position in an Artificial World: Creativity, Ethics and AI in Knowledge Organization ISKO UK Sixth Biennial Conference London, 15-16th July 2019 2019. 312 p. – 155 × 225 mm. Softcover ISBN 978-3-95650-549... Read More about The Human Position in an Artificial World: creativity, ethics and AI in knowledge organization. ISKO UK Sixth Biennial Conference London, 15-16th July 2019.

'Digital youth work: youth workers' balancing act between digital innovation and digital literacy insecurity. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pawluczuk, A., Hall, H., Webster, G., & Smith, C. (2018, October). 'Digital youth work: youth workers' balancing act between digital innovation and digital literacy insecurity. Presented at ISIC: the information behaviour conference, Krakow, Poland

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present empirical research which examines the ways youth workers in the United Kingdom perceive their work in the context of digital literacy project facilitation. There is currently limited research focusing on d... Read More about 'Digital youth work: youth workers' balancing act between digital innovation and digital literacy insecurity..

Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena. (2018)
Journal Article
Cleverley, P., & Muir, L. (2018). Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena. Knowledge Organization, 45(2), 152-169. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2018-2-152

The study investigates whether existing Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) for strong and hesitant forward-looking sentiment could be improved to detect social phenomena.
Five judges identified examples of strong/hesitant forward-looking sentiment... Read More about Using Knowledge Organization Systems to automatically detect forward-looking sentiment in company reports to infer social phenomena..

Tacit knowledge sharing in online environments: locating ‘Ba’ within a platform for public sector professionals (2018)
Journal Article
Buunk, I., Smith, C. F., & Hall, H. (2019). Tacit knowledge sharing in online environments: locating ‘Ba’ within a platform for public sector professionals. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(4), 1134-1145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769982

Presented in this article are some findings from a study which investigates tacit knowledge sharing and social media use. The results reported here derive from a survey completed by members of an online platform that incorporates social media feature... Read More about Tacit knowledge sharing in online environments: locating ‘Ba’ within a platform for public sector professionals.

Applications and applicability of Social Cognitive Theory in Information Science research (2018)
Journal Article
Middleton, L., Hall, H., & Raeside, R. (2019). Applications and applicability of Social Cognitive Theory in Information Science research. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(4), 927-937. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769985

Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) is a theory that derives from Psychology, yet has been adopted in other interdisciplinary subject areas, including Information Science. The origins and key concepts of SCT are presented, and the value of SCT’s contributi... Read More about Applications and applicability of Social Cognitive Theory in Information Science research.

UK public library roles and value: a focus group analysis (2018)
Journal Article
Appleton, L., Hall, H., Duff, A., & Raeside, R. (2018). UK public library roles and value: a focus group analysis. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 50(3), 275-283

Findings from a study of the advantages and disadvantages accrued by individuals from their public library use, and the impact of this on citizenship at individual and community levels, are presented. The analysis of longitudinal focus group data col... Read More about UK public library roles and value: a focus group analysis.

Blurred reputations: Managing professional and private information online (2018)
Journal Article
Ryan, F. V., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2020). Blurred reputations: Managing professional and private information online. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 52(1), 16-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769977

Results are reported from a study that investigated patterns of information behaviour and use as related to personal reputation building and management in online environments. An everyday life information seeking (ELIS) perspective was adopted. Data... Read More about Blurred reputations: Managing professional and private information online.

Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers (2018)
Journal Article
Mowbray, J., Hall, H., Raeside, R., & Robertson, P. J. (2018). Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 50(3), 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769965

Networking is considered an integral feature of job search, yet its behavioural manifestation has received little attention in the extant literature. Here this is addressed in a study of young job-seekers that adopted an egocentric network approach u... Read More about Job search information behaviours: An ego-net study of networking amongst young job-seekers.

Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2019). Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(4), 950-961. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000618769966

The purpose of the research was to investigate the practices of elected, yet unpaid, community councillors in Scotland as they exploit information channels for democratic engagement with citizens. Its focus is both novel and significant in that it co... Read More about Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen democratic engagement.

Investigating the online and offline contexts of day-to-day democracy as participation spaces. (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor-Smith, E., & Smith, C. F. (2019). Investigating the online and offline contexts of day-to-day democracy as participation spaces. Information, Communication and Society, 22(13), 1853-1870. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2018.1469656

Citizen-led participation in democracy is explored through studying the online and offline spaces where people work together to influence those in power and improve their communities. The concept of a participation space is introduced to describe the... Read More about Investigating the online and offline contexts of day-to-day democracy as participation spaces..

Long-term community development within a researcher network: a social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre (2018)
Journal Article
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2018). Long-term community development within a researcher network: a social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre. Journal of Documentation, 74(4), 844-861. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2017-0069

Purpose Results are reported from a study that investigated the extent to which an intervention to develop a community of library and information science researchers – the Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project-was successful in m... Read More about Long-term community development within a researcher network: a social network analysis of the DREaM project cadre.

Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use (2018)
Book
Haynes, D. (2018). Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use. (2nd edition). Facet Publishing

PART I: Metadata concepts

Part I introduces the concepts that underpin metadata, starting with an historical perspective.

In Chapter 1 some examples of metadata that people come across in their daily life are demonstrated along with some altern... Read More about Metadata for Information Management and Retrieval: understanding metadata and its use.

Exploring Information Literacy Through the Lens of Activity Theory (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017, September). Exploring Information Literacy Through the Lens of Activity Theory. Presented at European Conference on Information Literacy 2017, St Malo, France

Activity Theory (AT) is presented as a framework for explaining Information Literacy (IL) as a technologically mediated social practice. This is achieved in the context of a study conducted in 2016 on the information gathering and sharing activities... Read More about Exploring Information Literacy Through the Lens of Activity Theory.

Librarian Questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016 (2017)
Data
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2017). Librarian Questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682093

Results of questionnaire emailed to senior public librarians in Scotland. Questions were around their support of Community Councils including support and training of Community Councillors information skills, for a project around information literacy... Read More about Librarian Questionnaire data for IL-DEM project November - December 2016.

Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F. V. C., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2017, October). Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective. Presented at Annual Meeting of The Association for Information Science & Technology, Washington D.C., US

The research presented in this poster is concerned with the ways in which people use information to build identities for themselves online with reference to the themes of personal reputation management. To date these two themes have been under-explor... Read More about Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective.

Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen engagement (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cruickshank, P., Ryan, B., & Hall, H. (2017, June). Practices of community representatives in exploiting information channels for citizen engagement. Paper presented at i3: Information: Interactions and impact, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

This extended abstract presents results of an investigation of the practices of community representatives (in this case: Community Councillors in Scotland) in exploiting information channels for citizen engagement.

Blurred reputations: Managing profession and private information online (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2017, June). Blurred reputations: Managing profession and private information online. Paper presented at i3: information: interactions and impact

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Demonstrating the impact of the public library on citizenship development in the UK: focus group findings (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Appleton, L., Duff, A., Hall, H., & Raeside, R. (2017, June). Demonstrating the impact of the public library on citizenship development in the UK: focus group findings. Paper presented at i3: information: interactions and impact

Introduction
This paper presents the findings of a research project that seeks to understand how public libraries operate and demonstrate value and social impact. The research considers how the multi-functionality and social impact of public librari... Read More about Demonstrating the impact of the public library on citizenship development in the UK: focus group findings.

Tacit knowledge sharing in online environments: locating “Ba” within a platform for public sector professionals (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buunk, I., Hall, H., & Smith, C. (2017, June). Tacit knowledge sharing in online environments: locating “Ba” within a platform for public sector professionals. Paper presented at i3 - information, interactions and impact

Results from a survey undertaken by members of an online platform that incorporates social media features, and enables knowledge sharing amongst public sector professionals, are presented in this paper. The work responds to a call to enhance understa... Read More about Tacit knowledge sharing in online environments: locating “Ba” within a platform for public sector professionals.