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Retail prices during a change in monetary regimes: evidence from Sears, Roebuck catalogs, 1938–1951
Authors: Young Andrew T. , Blue Alexander K. 
Published: October 2007

AbstractWe present microeconomic evidence on US pricing dynamics pre and post‐establishment of the Bretton Woods (BW) monetary regime. We track prices of 49 goods (1172 observations) in 1938–1951 Sears, Roebuck catalogs. The average length between (nominal) price changes was over 2 years. The average was higher (2.05 years) in the pre‐BW period than in the later (2.01 years). We find that prices of brand name goods were relatively rigid; three never changed price. Price changes were larger during the 1945–1951 period than pre‐BW by between 0.60 and 1.83%. Price changes displayed a higher correlation with inflation pre‐BW. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Small price changes and menu costs
Authors: Lach Saul , Tsiddon Daniel 
Published: October 2007

AbstractWe find that while some individual price changes are indeed ‘small’, the average price change of different products within a store in any given month is not. Moreover, the smaller the price change of an individual product, the larger the average price change of the remaining products sold by the store. We argue that these findings are consistent with extensions of menu cost models of price‐setting behavior to multiproduct firms when these firms have high average costs and low marginal costs of changing prices. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Historiography of information science
Authors: Rayward W. Boyd , Buckland Michael K. , Warner Julian , Bowker Geoffrey C. 
Published: October 2007

AbstractThis panel is concerned with the historiography of information science, from related, but also contrasting, perspectives. Papers explore the interaction between specific historical events and broader historical developments and the understanding of those events and developments.Themes of collective memory and forgetting relate the presentations to one another. They are concerned with the diffusion of ideas and events over time and across intellectual space. The diffusion of technologies is another theme, with information technology itself acting as a communicator across otherwise separate thought communities.In relation to the specific conference themes, the presentations explore the ways in which information technologies are revolutionary in terms of human creativity and thought, and, by revisiting the unknown past, explore the possibilities of shaping of the future information world.
Questioning LibQUAL+: Critiquing its Assessment of Academic Library Effectiveness
Authors: Edgar Bill 
Published: October 2007

AbstractAdvertised as a total market survey of an academic library's users, LibQUAL+ has risen to prominence in recent years as a means of assessing academic library effectiveness. In light of this, this conceptual paper raises and addresses four questions arising from its survey instrument. Doing so reveals that LibQUAL+ only partially conceptualizes a library's operations. Furthermore, it emphasizes users' eventual outcomes, such as improved grades, but does not explicitly conceptualize users' more immediate need for epistemological value in the form of information, education, or persuasion. Finally, LibQUAL+'s survey correctly emphasizes the role of user self‐reliance and satisfaction, but it unduly deemphasizes users' need for professional information assistance and their actual experience of quality library service.
Music and video downloading among undergraduate students: Information needs, access and seeking behaviors
Authors: Kim Kyunghye , Burnett Gary D. , Ding Na 
Published: October 2007

AbstractAccording to a 2005 survey on music and video file downloading undertaken as part of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 35 million Americans (or 27% of Internet users) who are 18 and older have downloaded music or video files. Often regarded as the most active group, undergraduate students are known to get involved with all types of online file sharing activities. The Pew survey also reported that “In all, 48 % of current downloaders have used sources other than peer‐to‐peer networks or paid music and video services to get music or video files. Beyond MP3 Players, email and instant messaging, these alternatives sources include music and video websites, blogs and online review sites.” Given the scale of such activities, there is need for research that investigates what motivates students' downloading behaviors, how students find information and sources for downloading, and whether and how they communicate their knowledge with each other.
Managing scientific data for long‐term access and use
Authors: Cragin Melissa H. , MacMullen W. John , Wallis Jillian , Zimmerman Ann , Gold Anna 
Published: October 2007

AbstractPreservation of data for long‐term use will require data management strategies that include curation and preservation planning and implementation. While data management and curatorial activities have been an integral part of some scientific domains for years (see for example, high energy particle physics), these are new concepts in other areas of science. Concepts such as provenance, representation for re‐use, and work‐flow capture are rarely understood, let alone addressed. By bringing together theories and best practices from archives, museum studies, and library and information science (LIS), it is possible to address these problems.on current research into scientific data management problems, this panel will consider questions about sharing and re‐use of data, curation and preservation, and the intersection of scientific production and scholarly communication. Our research explores information work and problems across a range of scientific areas in the life and physical sciences, including genomics, neuroscience, ecology, and earth science. As more scientific work products are shifted to open or shared data collections (including archives, repositories and databases), we will need to understand how these systems are implemented and used to support collaboration and discovery, as well as scholarly and scientific communication.
Authenticity revisited: The cultural implications of a digital reality
Authors: Mak Bonnie , MacNeil Heather , Douglas Jennifer 
Published: October 2007

AbstractUNESCO's “Memory of the World” and Google Print are just two of the many projects that seek to digitize our cultural record. The duplication, preservation, and dissemination of these sources with digital technology, however, come at a cost. The panel will explore the cultural implications of transferring and re‐rendering our historical, cultural, and intellectual legacy in a new medium.In addition to exploring the idioms of digitized informational realities, the panel will also investigate how, recursively, these spaces are effecting change in the analogue world. The re‐appearance of historical artifacts as digitized entities, as well as the emergence of born‐digital entities, has forced us to question our traditional ideas about what constitutes an original or a copy, and what we mean by the term ‘authentic’.Inspired by the success of last year's session, “Authenticity: New Personas for Digital Media,” the panel for 2006 will take a more comprehensive look at the concept of authenticity in both analogue and digital environments. This interdisciplinary panel of established and junior scholars from the humanities and the social sciences will suggest new ways of approaching and understanding emergent informational realities.
Personal Email Management on the University Digital Desktop: User Behaviors vs. Archival Best Practices
Authors: Winget Megan A. , Chang Kimberly , Tibbo Helen 
Published: October 2007

AbstractThis paper will review findings from an extensive user study which seeks to understand the ways in which individuals currently manage, interact with, and think about electronic files, particularly email. Funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), we web‐surveyed nearly 3000 faculty, staff, and administrators; and conducted personal follow‐up interviews with 100 people across two universities: one public, one private. Our findings indicate that users and archivists have competing concerns. User concerns revolve around the volume of files with which they are forced to contend, leading to wasted time, improperly deleted files, confusion, and general dissatisfaction with the networked environment. Archivists, on the other hand, concerned with the preservation of digital materials, are focused on organizational issues that are often at odds with users' daily practice.
Retrieving e‐Health Research: The Challenge of Accessing the Knowledge
Authors: Davis Richard , Lustria Mia Liza A. , Brown Linda Lockett 
Published: October 2007

AbstractThe Internet has increasingly become a viable tool for delivering interventions to promote better health behaviors and manage diseases. As an information and communication tool, it leverages the broad reach of mass media with the interactive features of interpersonal channels. As such, the past 10 years has seen a proliferation of pilot studies, evaluative studies and randomized controlled trials designed to test the efficacy of web‐based interventions on health outcomes. These efficacy studies look at a variety of ways Internet‐based interventions (e‐health) can be used across a number of health conditions and in different contexts. In particular, the last two to three years has seen a significant increase in efficacy studies of web‐based interventions published in the literature across different disciplines. The challenge of this from a scholarly perspective is that the sheer number of different ways the literature has been described and indexed has made it increasingly difficult for scholars to locate relevant articles and draw clear conclusions about the efficacy of web‐based interventions across disparate fields of interest.This study explores how this field of inquiry has grown and matured in the past 10 years by examining the growth of the literature specific to Internet‐based health interventions and to explore the changes in terminologies used to describe this field. A frequency analysis of keywords used to describe web‐based health intervention studies was conducted on over 150 peer‐reviewed journal articles and a listing of high‐value keywords were generated. A large number of unique keywords were discovered to be associated with the body of publications located according to the methodology described.The results of this study will be of specific use to researchers interested in web‐based health interventions and will be of practical value in aiding their literature searches. This keyword analysis also reveals interesting insights into the development of an emerging interdisciplinary field of inquiry based on how scholarly activities are being described and/or represented across disciplines and specializations.
Experimental Comparison of 2D and 3D Technology Mediated Paramedic‐Physician Collaboration in Remote Emergency Medical Situations
Authors: Sonnenwald Diane H. , Maurin Hanna , Cairns Bruce , Manning James E. , Freid Eugene B. , Welch Greg , Fuchs Henry 
Published: October 2007

AbstractWe are investigating the potential of 3D telepresence technology to support collaboration among geographically separated medical personnel in trauma emergency care situations. 3D telepresence technology has the potential to provide richer visual information than current 2D video conferencing techniques. This may be of benefit in diagnosing and treating patients in emergency situations where specialized medical expertise is not locally available. We conducted an experimental evaluation, simulating an emergency medical situation and examining the interaction between the attending paramedic and remote, consulting physician. Post‐questionnaire data illustrate that the information provided by the consulting physician was perceived to be more useful by the paramedic in the 3D condition than the 2D condition. However, the data pertaining to the quality of interaction and trust between the consulting physician and paramedic showed mixed results. The implications of these results are discussed.
The reality of the global, digital workplace: Innovation in knowledge management
Authors: Edgar William B. , Chapman Matt , Moulton Mary E. , Rogers Anne E , Dobbins James H. 
Published: October 2007

AbstractThe use of knowledge management tools enabling distributed collaboration and information sharing supports, and indeed shapes, how work is done in industry today. The panel chosen, all having extensive international experience, reflects directly the realities of a digital, global workforce and the new opportunities for information technology to support it. Starting off the panel will be a consultant from one of the leading providers of tools and research on innovation, who will outline the latest thinking on what is necessary for effective innovation in the workplace, with a focus on how this is enabled by knowledge management tools. The changing role of the information professional is illustrated clearly by the three following panelists, all from various industrial sectors, who will share some of the groundbreaking changes in knowledge management in industry. From digital idea management and use of taxonomies as a collaborative means to enable innovation to an innovative look at managing the virtual organization, all four panelists will provide some thought provoking examples of how innovation in knowledge management is changing how work is done.
Health Information Services Available for People Living With HIV/AIDS: Perspectives of Library and Information Professionals
Authors: Mehra Bharat , Albright Kendra S. 
Published: October 2007

AbstractThere is an urgent need for availability of life‐saving health information services as well as adequate marketing, advertising, and dissemination strategies to people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), and to the broader public at large, especially in the context of a recent UNAIDS estimation that the number of people living with HIV in the United States, at the end of 2003, exceeded one million for the first time. This study explores the HIV/AIDS health information services that are available within the local community of Knoxville, Tennessee, and presents focus group perspectives of nine library and information professionals about awareness and use of these services by PLWHAs. The study forms part of a larger plan to apply a community informatics (CI) approach to examine the provision of health information services for PLWHAs in terms of how PLWHAs and other stakeholders including health care service providers, academic community at the University of Tennessee, community leaders and activists, and faith‐based organizations, use and apply information and communication technologies (ICTs) to empower and enable PLWHAs to meet their information needs, goals, and aspirations. Here we report findings from the project's first phase of documenting perspectives of library and information professionals about existing HIV/AIDS information services, users of these services, barriers and challenges to effective use, and the role of health information professionals in the context of developing ideal information support services for PLWHAs.
A New Framework for the Citation Indexing Paradigm
Authors: Dervos Dimitris A. , Samaras Nikolaos , Evangelidis Georgios , Folias Theodore 
Published: October 2007

AbstractA new citation indexing paradigm is proposed: the cascading citation indexing framework (c2IF, for short). It improves the way research publications are assessed for their impact in promoting science and technology. Given a collection of articles and their citation graph, citations are considered at the (article, author) level. Each one article is uniquely identified by means of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI,http://www.doi.org). To identify each one author uniquely, a Universal Author Identifier (UAI) scheme is established. In addition to the citations directly made to a given (article, author) pair, citation paths that target each one citing article are also considered. The granularity of the paradigm is further increased by introducing the concept of the chord, whereby a citation path of length one co‐exists with paths of length two or higher, involving the same source‐and target‐articles. The c2IF output emerges in the form of a medal standings table, analogous to the one that ranks teams at athletic events: when two (article, author) pairs receive the same number of (direct) citations, the one that is cited by more popular articles (i.e. articles that comprise targets to a larger number of paths in the citation graph), is assigned a higher rank value.
Access to scientific data: The Social and Technical Challenges and strategies
Authors: D'Ignazio John , Qin Jian , Braunstein Yale M. , Whitbeck Caroline , Parsons Mark , Eastman Timothy E. , Xie Sherry 
Published: October 2007

AbstractThe practice of science has changed in the last three decades due to the rapid development of information and communication technologies and massive increases in computing capacity, made manifest by the Internet. As the International Council for Science (ICSU) describes in its recently released five‐year strategic plan, there is now more scientific data and information that is freely and openly available. This environment enables scientists around the world access to the most up‐to‐date data and information from his or her desktop. “Secondary analyses of data, and the combining of data from multiple sources, are opening up exciting new scientific horizons. Scientific publication practices are changing rapidly.” (ICSU, 2005, 16‐17) These revolutionary changes in the creation, management, and use of scientific data and information have significant economic and social implications. First among them are the economic and legal aspects provoked by open sharing versus intellectual property protection of scientific data. In addition to the impact of these issues, there are technical challenges in managing the life cycle of scientific data. Long‐term preservation strategies are evolving to ensure that the authenticity of scientific data can be verified, and to enable knowledge discovery and interoperability via metadata representations of the data collections.To maximize the impact of scientific data, the information community needs to promote new thinking and structures in society to properly collect, preserve and distribute this resource. In response to the issues and challenges in access to scientific data and information, we have arranged for a comprehensive session that examines the topic from a holistic view. For full coverage, two panels are required: one that covers the current social and policy contexts and one that covers the system developments being driven by these broader issues. The experts on both panels will contribute their experience from conducting social, economic, and technical research of scientific data and information and invite the ASIS&T annual meeting attendees to join them in discussion.
Force feedback textual and graphic displays for the blind
Authors: Jeong Wooseob 
Published: October 2007

AbstractUsing the force feedback technology, which has been used in video games for years, prototypes of touchable online Braille generator and touchable online graphical display have been developed for visually impaired or blind users. Without expensive devices, these prototypes let blind people access information on the web by touching the output Braille displays or by scrolling over tactile graphical displays with a force feedback mouse. User studies have been conducted with visually impaired people and the data collected provide valuable information about the optimal conditions for these prototype force feedback displays, such as how strong the force should be and how big the Braille dots should appear. The end product of this research will enable visually impaired people to enjoy information on the web, including images, more freely.
Patterns of reading and organizing information in document triage
Authors: Bae Soonil , Marshall Catherine C. , Meintanis Konstantinos , Zacchi Anna , Hsieh Haowei , Moore J. Michael , Shipman Frank M. 
Published: October 2007

AbstractPeople engaged in knowledge work must often rapidly identify valuable material from within large sets of potentially relevant documents. Document triage is a type of sensemaking task that involves skimming documents to get a sense of their content, evaluating documents to assess their worth in the context of the current activity, and organizing documents to prepare for their subsequent use and more in‐depth reading. We have performed a study of document triage by collecting multiple forms of qualitative and quantitative data to characterize how 24 subjects read about a new topic and assessed and organized a set of 40 relevant Web documents. Our results indicate that there are multiple strategies for document triage, each involving different styles of reading, interacting, and organizing. Common strategies include: 1) focused reading early in the task, relegating the organizing until later in the process; 2) skimming performed in tandem with organizing, which relies on gaining an incremental understanding of the topic; and 3) metadata‐based organizing, a strategy that stresses working with document surrogates to minimize the time spent reading. The findings suggest ways applications may better support the intertwined nature of the browsing, reading, and organizing activities in document triage.
Collection Definition in Federated Digital Resource Development
Authors: Palmer Carole L. , Knutson Ellen M. , Twidale Michael , Zavalina Oksana 
Published: October 2007

AbstractAs part of a federation project providing integrated access to over 170 digital collections, we are studying how collections can best be represented to meet the needs of service providers and diverse user communities. This paper reports on recent results from that project on how digital resource developers conceive of and define their collections. Based on content analysis of collection registry records, survey and interview data, and focus groups, we identify collection definition trends including a broadening of target audiences, elaboration of subject representation, and a lack of clearly defined selection criteria. Our findings reveal high variability and ambiguity in the collection construct. We discuss how the concept of collection is being continuously defined through the processes of digital resource development and federation and how rapidly changing conceptualizations are likely to impact adoption, tailoring, and development of digital collections and their use.
Using Category Information for Relationship Exploration in Textual Data
Authors: Qu Yan , Furnas George , Walstrum Ben 
Published: October 2007

AbstractIn the comprehension of textual data, it is critical for people to perceive relationships between topics. This work explores two approaches that use text categorizations to reveal underlying relationships: the Overlap approach, which visualizes overlaps between categories, and the Search approach, which shows topical search results in the context of categories. The effectiveness of these approaches is tested using various types of relationship questions. Our results show that the Overlap approach improves users' performances in relationship exploration tasks. Conversely, the Search approach did not show the same effectiveness, primarily due to the Vocabulary Problem. Design implications are drawn from the experiment.