Introduction Using Stebbins’ concept of ‘serious leisure’ and Savolainen’s concept of everyday life information seeking’, this study investigates the information behaviour of Fantasy Premier League players and explores the role the online fan community plays in this behaviour. Method A mixed method approach was taken which included a questionn…[Read more]

It is evident from its presence and use in our everyday lives that textiles have been woven into our history since time began and have earned a place in museums as objects; but can a printed textile be considered a document? This paper proposes to explore the Toile de Jouy, a French 18th-19th century textile through various aspects of Document…[Read more]

Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

The focus was to explore the implications of concerning trends linked to Library Management Systems, to determine the level of impact on effective service provision within English public and university libraries and to develop workable solutions. A mixed methods approach was used, comprising a selective literature review exploring the…[Read more]

The aims of this project were to explore the professional identity of health librarians utilising aspects of the Librarian Professional Identity Continuum (LPIC) created by Pierson et al. (2019). This created a way of understanding professional identity considering four different Identity Anchors that make up an individual librarian’s sense of p…[Read more]

Health disparities experienced by racially minoritised people are well documented and continue in the UK despite statements and policies mandating equality at national and institutional levels. The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored both inequalities and our reliance on healthcare information and its communication chains. As stewards of knowledge,…[Read more]

Plagiarism is malpractice, the fabrication of others’ “ideas or work” published without the proper permission or
citation of the original contributors. Plagiarism is detected through different software, i.e., Turnitin, before publishing
any research data. The present survey study assesses whether academicians, researchers, and scholars aroun…[Read more]

Purpose: This dissertation explores concerns and experiences of time and temporality in contemporary life and a societal climate that includes both Information and Communications Technology (ICT) ubiquity and instantaneous communications, and ecological crises countdowns, and how experiential time issues relate to both Library and Information…[Read more]

In this post, Jeroen Sondervan reflects on the OA Workouts: Scholars at Work series he hosted for the Open Access Books Network, discussing what we learned and what others might draw from these examples of open scholarship.

Eine funktionierende Nahversorgung mit Lebensmitteln und Gütern des alltäglichen Bedarfs ist ein wesentlicher Gelingensfaktor für eine als zufriedenstellend empfundene Lebenssituation in ländlichen Räumen. Aufgrund des demografischen Wandels sowie der Abwanderung in die alten Bundesländer, ergeben sich insbesondere in ländlichen Räumen in den neu…[Read more]