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ASIS&T online education initiatives: Driving the future
Authors: Neal Diane Rasmussen , Smith Linda C. , Ratliff Jacob A. , Khanova Julia 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThis panel provides an update for ASIS&T members on the activities of the Webinar Task Force and the Online Education Task Force to increase online communication and education efforts within the Society. Both task forces were formed by presidential appointment in 2011 with the goal of expanding the involvement of ASIS&T in the provision of online educational offerings. In addition to expanding webinar offerings, an organizational emphasis on online communication and education drives increased networking opportunities and ensures that members remain connected to the Society between annual meetings. Panel presentations include comments on the context of online education generally, insight into the background and context of the ASIS&T online education initiative, updates on the results and ongoing efforts of the task forces, and a perspective on the future and potential of online education within ASIS&T.SponsorsSIG/ED and the ASIS&T Online Education Task ForceConference TrackTRACK 3, Innovation
Digital liaisons: Shifting borders in interdisciplinary collaborations
Authors:   SIG Digital Libraries
Published: January 2013

AbstractAs the line between libraries and other information environments starts to blur with digital initiative collaborations, so do the distinctions between specific professions, roles, and duties within these contexts. Given the changing landscape, up‐and‐coming professionals at the undergraduate and master's degree level as well as recent graduates are greatly impacted by these innovations. Providing these early professionals with a venue for showcasing their budding expertise is critical for continuing this cycle of innovation. The proposed session features posters and presentations from undergraduate and master's students and early professionals which highlight their research, contributions and professional experiences related to the evolution and shifting borders of digital information environments.
Annotation as a new paradigm in research archiving: Two case studies: Republic of letters ‐ hebrew text database
Authors: Roorda Dirk , van den Heuvel Charles 
Published: January 2013

AbstractWe outline a paradigm to preserve results of digital scholarship, whether they are query results, feature values, or topic assignments. This paradigm is characterized by using annotations as multifunctional carriers and making them portable. The testing grounds we have chosen are two significant enterprises, one in the history of science, and one in Hebrew scholarship.The first one (CKCC) focuses on the results of a project where a Dutch consortium of universities, research institutes, and cultural heritage institutions experimented for 4 years with language techniques and topic modeling methods with the aim to analyze the emergence of scholarly debates. The data: a complex set of about 20.000 letters.The second one (DTHB) is a multi‐year effort to express the linguistic features of the Hebrew bible in a text database, which is still growing in detail and sophistication. Versions of this database are packaged in commercial bible study software.We state that the results of these forms of scholarship require new knowledge management and archive practices. Only when researchers can build efficiently on each other's (intermediate) results, they can achieve the aggregations of quality data by which new questions can be answered, and hidden patterns visualized. Archives are required to find a balance between preserving authoritative versions of sources and supporting collaborative efforts in digital scholarship. Annotations are promising vehicles for preserving and reusing research results.
How do libraries use social networking sites to interact with users
Authors: Chen Dora Yu‐Ting , Chu Samuel Kai‐Wah , Xu Shu‐Qin 
Published: January 2013

AbstractSocial networking sites (SNS) are helpful for stirring up interactions among users. The number of libraries which adopt SNSs is increasing. However, user engagement is low on many libraries' SNSs. Existing research mainly focuses on the ways SNSs used in libraries and the librarians or users' attitudes towards libraries using SNSs. Little research has been done on how to use SNSs to interact with library users effectively. This study focuses on the interactions between libraries and users on libraries' Facebook, Twitter and Weibo. Four types of interactions are examined, including knowledge sharing, information dissemination, communication and knowledge gathering. A mixed method is applied in this study: quantitative results, generated from the analysis on around 1700 posts sampled from 40 libraries' SNSs, are incorporated with qualitative results concluded from the interviews with 10 librarians. The study finds that among the four types of interactions, knowledge sharing attracts the largest volume of user responses on libraries' SNSs. The study's investigation on the differences of Facebook‐like and Twitter‐like SNSs and those between academic and public libraries on using SNSs suggests that in order to improve the efficiency of interacting with users on SNSs, there are necessities for libraries to coordinate different types of SNSs and take the properties of their communities under consideration.
Bibliometric characteristics of political science research in Germany
Authors: Chi Pei‐Shan 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThis study investigates the publication, citation, and reference characteristics of items in political science with special attention to journal articles. By analyzing the complete 2003–2007 publication list of two top‐ranking departments of political science in Germany, this study explores the publication behavior of German political scientists and also analyzes their citation and reference characteristics. According to the results of the study, we will be able to provide important knowledge to the process of evaluating research performance in such a local language oriented subfield in the social sciences.
Private crises/public reponses: A nascent model
Authors: Private Crises/Public Reponses: A Nascent Model Lynn Westbrook 
Published: January 2013

AbstractPrivate crises, by their very nature, pressure individuals to manage the uncontrollable on their own. Public responses devolve from multiple layers of organizational responsibility and, often antithetical, values. Information engagements weave through and across the resultant unstructured relationships. Using a critical theory lens and an intimate partner violence context, this paper posits a situational model of the dynamics information engagements within private crises and public responses.
“Things my doctor never told me”: Bridging information gaps in an online community
Authors: Rubenstein Ellen L. 
Published: January 2013

AbstractIn a medical climate where doctors are usually pressed for time, patients commonly leave their appointments feeling confused, unable to recall what was discussed, or simply missing information. These communication difficulties result in gaps in patients' knowledge about their conditions and their potential treatments. One response to this problem has been that patients join online health communities as a way to access more information and obtain social support. Research shows that participating in these communities has important benefits, including decreased depression, better ability to cope, and increased social networks that can aid in accessing needed information. However, little research addresses the specific information gaps patients experience, how they fill these gaps through online communication, and how online health information behavior interacts with medical decisions and patient‐provider communication. Drawing on data from 31 semi‐structured, in‐depth interviews, participant observation, and online archives analysis, this paper examines the health information interactions that participants in an online breast cancer community experienced as they progressed through breast cancer and survivorship. The findings reveal an extensive array of information that, from the patients' perspectives, was either not communicated or was inadequately communicated during patient‐provider interactions. This research highlights patients' perceptions of information gaps, how patients navigated through their information gaps with the help of the community, and the significance of peer interaction in the comprehension of medical information and medical decision‐making.
Beyond practices: A field study of the contextual factors impacting collaborative information seeking
Authors: Spence Patricia Ruma , Reddy Madhu 
Published: January 2013

AbstractCollaborative information seeking (CIS) is an important aspect of team work. Researchers are developing more detailed understanding of CIS activities and the tools to support those activities in organizational settings. However, these activities take place in highly contextualized settings. Therefore, while it is important to study CIS activities and technologies, we also need to understand the contextual factors that influence these activities. This understanding can assist in the development of more effective organizational policies and systems to support CIS practices. To address this research gap, we conducted a field study of CIS activities of information technology (IT) teams in two hospitals. In particular, we sought to identify: (1) contextual factors that affect CIS activities and (2) how these factors affect CIS activities. Through this study, we identified four categories of contextual factors – individual, team, organizational and technological – that impacted CIS activities and practices. This study highlights the importance of studying context as an aspect of CIS.
Knowledge retrieval for scientific literatures
Authors: Guo Chun , Chinchankar Renuka , Liu Xiaozhong 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThe success of several knowledge retrieval experiments in some selected domains proved empirically that knowledge retrieval, if implemented in the restricted‐domain, can yield performance gains over classical “bag‐of‐words” based retrieval systems. The key to their success is the availability of codified high quality domain knowledge accumulated in years. However, this knowledge base is rarely available in other domains. In this paper, we propose innovative and economical ways to generate knowledge‐based structural metadata and demonstrate a prototype knowledge retrieval system, WikiBackyard, to serve user's knowledge oriented information need. The system benefits users by providing structure‐level access to scientific papers and automatically inferring structural knowledge from their natural language queries by leveraging knowledge recommendation and knowledge feedback.
Information visualization state of the art and future directions
Authors: Milojević Staša , Hemminger Bradley M. , Priem Jason , Chen Chaomei , Leydesdorff Loet , Weingart Scott B. 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThe panel explores the theoretical, metric, algorithmic, and design aspects of state‐of‐the‐art information visualization, and offers insights regarding the challenges and future directions in this field. The goal of the panel is to start a collaborative discussion around a number of important themes.
Evaluating rater quality and rating difficulty in online annotation activities
Authors: Organisciak Peter , Efron Miles , Fenlon Katrina , Senseney Megan 
Published: January 2013

AbstractGathering annotations from non‐expert online raters is an attractive method for quickly completing large‐scale annotation tasks, but the increased possibility of unreliable annotators and diminished work quality remains a cause for concern. In the context of information retrieval, where human‐encoded relevance judgments underlie the evaluation of new systems and methods, the ability to quickly and reliably collect trustworthy annotations allows for quicker development and iteration of research.In the context of paid online workers, this study evaluates indicators of non‐expert performance along three lines: temporality, experience, and agreement. It is found that user performance is a key indicator for future performance. Additionally, the time spent by raters familiarizing themselves with a new set of tasks is important for rater quality, as is long‐term familiarity with a topic being rated.These findings may inform large‐scale digital collections' use of non‐expert raters for performing more purposive and affordable online annotation activities.
Improving the user experience of professional researchers: Applying a user‐centered design framework in archival repositories
Authors: Meyerson Jessica , Galloway Patricia , Bias Randolph 
Published: January 2013

AbstractUser‐based evaluation of archives has evolved significantly over the past three decades. However, existing frameworks rely almost exclusively on surveys and questionnaires, which address users' self‐reported perceptions of quality of user experience in the archives. In this paper we propose a user‐centered design (UCD) framework for the systematic improvement of the in‐person archival user experience for professional researchers that borrows from service design, user experience design and usability. Using existing archival literature on use and users as our point of departure, we will discuss building professional researcher personas, the application of usability performance metrics to encourage greater efficiency for infrastructural archival activities, and UCD tools for enabling professional researchers to take on active roles in the re/design process as experts of their experience.
Foucault and the bibliographic universe: What Really is an author?
Authors: Budd John M. , Moulaison Heather Lea 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThis poster will present connections that are readily apparent between Michel Foucault's concept of “author” and the “entities” in FRBR. Both Group 1 and Group 2 FRBR Entities have properties that are analogous to Foucault's ideas of authors and the works they produce. Moreover, Foucault addresses important matters concerning the apprehension of the works and how authors (or, as he phrases it, the “author‐function”) are perceived, both directly and as broader notions. FRBR and the entity attributes designated in FRAD have the potential to realize some of the extension of “work” and “author” introduced by Foucault. This poster will include this possible extension
Information needs and search characteristics of first‐year medical students
Authors: Saparova Dinara 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThis study aimed to investigate the relationships between information needs of first‐year medical students and search strategies they used to address those needs during online information searching. Students' information needs focused around two categories of questions – general medical and diagnostic – and were pursued through a variety of online searches. Searches for general medical knowledge aimed to find information that was known to exist and resulted in the known‐item search tasks. Searches for diagnostic knowledge required finding several pieces of information that needed to be put together to answer a question and resulted in subject search tasks. Remote observations demonstrated that students' searches for general medical information were short, quick, and did not require investment of a significant time or cognitive effort. Diagnostic searches, in contrast, consisted of multiple search moves, were time‐consuming, and required a lot more thinking. Students performed both types of searches in indexed medical databases and Google but used them differently. Students' search patterns were visualized. Such way of presenting the findings allowed for a quick overview of the observed search process characteristics.
Immigration policy, public libraries and the social practice of exclusion in Canada
Authors: MacDonald Susan 
Published: January 2013

AbstractCanada's immigration policies have historically constituted a social practice of exclusion that privileges the hegemonic project of one social identity over that of another, namely the capitalist state over other social relations in society. Using critical discourse analysis, this doctoral dissertation project examines the ways in which the state's constitution of immigrant communities and their relationships with state institutions, such as the public library, represents one site where such hegemonic struggles unfold. This research addresses the question: As an institute of the state and product of public policy, what role has the public library played in constituting immigrants to Canada and in what ways have these practices contributed to the inclusion or exclusion of immigrants in Canadian society?
Practice theory and work task performance: How are they related and how can they contribute to a study of information practices
Authors: Byström Katriina , Lloyd Annemareé 
Published: January 2013

AbstractOur aim is to introduce an emerging understanding of how practice theory can be used to frame the analysis of (work) task‐based research. This analytical work is tentative, but has the capacity of furthering task‐based research by addressing the dialogical relationships and embodied performances that constitute practice. We argue that analyses of task as a constitute element of practice can contribute to a rich discussion of knowledge construction in information studies.
Conceptualizing emergent archival forms: A case study of the occupy wall street “archive”
Authors: Lischer‐Katz Zack 
Published: January 2013

AbstractIn this paper, the author begins to conceptualize how online archival collections can be understood and evaluated. The author uses the Occupy Wall Street archives project as a case study for looking at this new form of archive, one constituted by multiple collecting institutions. Expanding the concept of interface as a tool for examining an archival collection that transcends typical physical demarcation, the author analyzes the links and navigation between different archival websites and institutions, and draws conclusions about the nature of these new types of archival collections. This paper provides a new approach for research into online archives, suggesting future avenues of inquiry, including future work on studying user behavior within online archives.
Mobile web interface of academic libraries
Authors: Han Hyejung , Jeong Wooseob 
Published: January 2013

AbstractMore and more academic libraries are offering their services via a mobile web platform. This study examined the current status of the mobile web interface of academic libraries in terms of their usability and tried to suggest an effective mobile service design for academic libraries. Seventy‐six mobile academic library web sites were identified. Their first pages were captured and their menu systems were analyzed for different aspects, such as frequently appearing menu items, a search box and search links, URL hiding, menu icons and textual menus. We found many undesirable interfaces that waste space or cause users to be confused. A significant gap between users' needs and the services offered was also identified. To overcome this gap, more efforts should be made in finding users' needs first and implementing services as much as possible to meet such demands.
Checking in: A phenomenological study of active users of geolocational tagging services
Authors: Smith Carol E. 
Published: January 2013

AbstractGeosocial check‐in services are a relatively new feature of social media, used by a small but growing percentage of social networking enthusiasts. The purpose of this exploratory phenomenological study is to develop an initial qualitative understanding of the practices, interests, needs, and motivations of active users of mobile geosocial check‐in services, and the meaning that they ascribe to the use of geotagging services in their daily life. Through interview analysis and rich description, five key themes emerge. Geosocial check‐in services are found to be more than just a novel feature present in social media applications – users employ them to bind together the internal, social, and virtual dimensions of their modern lives, and to situate these dimensions in relation to the physical world around them.
Structural analysis of author vector space in the field of information sciences
Authors: Joo Soohyung , Lu Kun 
Published: January 2013

AbstractIn this poster we analyze the structure of author relationships using structural equation modeling (SEM). A structural model of four research areas and associated authors was examined in the author vector space in information sciences. The SEM result confirmed that the selected authors were adequately explained by their specific research area in the vector space based on author publications. In addition, we found that the research areas of “Information retrieval” and “Webometrics & Search log analysis” were closely related to each other.
J.J. Gibson and Marshall McLuhan: A survey of terminology and a proposed extension of the theory of affordances
Authors: Overhill Heidi 
Published: January 2013

AbstractPsychologist James J. Gibson coined the word “affordance” in 1979, to describe the relationship between the abilities of a living creature, and features in the environment that afford action for those abilities. An affordance, therefore, is physically real, but is defined as an affordance only in reference to a particular creature. This term has been widely adopted, and is now found in design, education, and cognitive science. Sometimes it is used in Gibson's original meaning, but it has also been applied to broader discussions of social and cognitive activities, resulting in a certain confusion of terminology. A short summary reveals the variety of current uses for the term, and goes further to propose that this range may be simplified by applying Marshall McLuhan's observation that “media are the extensions of mankind.” In that analysis, an object like a cup is an extension of cupped hands, because, like hands, it holds water. Defining some objects as body‐extensions makes it clear that affordances can be modified in two ways: by changing either features that are available in the environment, or the extended abilities of the user. This distinction simplifies the description of different types of affordances, and may help designers in planning effective experiences for users.
Information manipulation classification theory for LIS and NLP
Authors: Rubin Victoria L. , Chen Yimin 
Published: January 2013

AbstractThe Information Manipulation Classification Theory offers a systematic approach to understanding the differences and similarities among various types of information manipulation (such as falsification, exaggeration, concealment, misinformation or hoax). We distinguish twelve salient factors that manipulation varieties differ by (such as intentionality to deceive, accuracy, and social acceptability) to provide an abstract framework and conceptualize various permutations. Each variety then is represented as a set of features in the twelve‐dimensional space. Our contributions are two‐fold. In Library and Information Science (LIS) literature, a nuanced understanding of information manipulation varieties and their inter‐relation lends greater awareness and sophistication to the ways we think about information and information literacy. For Natural Language Processing (NLP), the model identifies salient features for each manipulation variety, creates a potential for automated recognition and adaptability from deception detection technology to identification of other information manipulation varieties based on similarities.