Xing Zhai , Xi Wang , Aiqing Han , Jinduo Tong , Yaqing Nie , YuKuan Xu
{"title":"Identification and simulation of key influencing factors of online health information service quality from the perspective of information ecology","authors":"Xing Zhai , Xi Wang , Aiqing Han , Jinduo Tong , Yaqing Nie , YuKuan Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101218","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the “digital intelligence” environment, the service quality of online health information services has become increasingly prominent. Using the Information Ecology theory as the research perspective, the factors affecting the quality of online health information service was investigated. Using the <em>fuzzy D-I-S</em> (Decision-making rial and Evaluation Laboratory- Interpretive structural modelling- system dynamics simulation) method, various factors of online health information service quality, such as importance, role and hierarchical relationship, and the impact of these factors on future services were analyzed. The main factors affecting the service quality were identified. Four of the most important core factors, the intelligence of technology, interactivity of services, ease of use of information, system ease-of-use, were simulated. Results showed that the service quality could be significantly improved by increasing the investment proportion of these four core factors. A basis for the construction of online health information service quality evaluation indicators, and also a reference for the improvement of online health information service quality was provided.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"Article 101218"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49873796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"College students and patient work: Health information management by emerging young adults","authors":"Catherine Arnott Smith, Philip Romero Masters","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101216","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>College students with a life experience of chronic illness and impairments grow into young adulthood as health information monitors as well as communicators with healthcare professionals. This interview study focused on the health information management practices of college and graduate students living with disabilities and chronic illness. SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety), a work system model drawn from human factors engineering, was used as a conceptual framework for qualitative analysis. This revealed the importance of other people, particularly parents, in patients' information worlds. Digital technologies were ubiquitous; analog tools from business cards to binders were also key components of students' information systems. Using the SEIPS structure to interrogate the data allowed an understanding of how health experiences are integrated into everyday life. The findings of this research may provide health information technology designers and information science researchers insight into how to meet the needs of this population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"Article 101216"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49902858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest editorial: Research methods in information behavior research","authors":"Annie T. Chen , Melissa G. Ocepek , Yan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101221","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"Article 101221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49873795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What contextual factors affect information poverty? Evidence from ethnic villages in rural Southwest China","authors":"Xiaoqian Zhang , Feng Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101224","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To solve the problem of information poverty, it is necessary to understand the factors influencing it. Past studies have examined information poverty from the perspectives of economic poverty and deficiency or deprivation. However, these studies do not fully explain the formulation of information poverty because they may overemphasize the economic and material side of information and neglect the social and communicative aspects. A quantitative study was conducted to examine how contextual factors (i.e., external situations, social relations, individual situations, and social interactions) affected the information poverty of ethnic villages in rural Southwest China. Research results showed that geographic locations, information assets, individual literacy, and individual psychology significantly influenced information poverty. Social norms and beliefs also affected information poverty; however, this influence was insignificant. These findings extend existing studies on information poverty and provide practical guidance for stakeholders (e.g., governments, libraries, and intellectual works) to alleviate information poverty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"Article 101224"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49873797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accounting for the knowledge gained during a web search: An empirical study on learning transfer indicators","authors":"Marcelo Tibau , Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira , Bernardo Pereira Nunes","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101222","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Searches with learning intent typically require the users to interact with the searching environment and perform knowledge acquisition features such as scan, read, and process the online content to fulfill their information needs. To capture indicators from searching behaviors that could account for the knowledge gained during a Web search, a qualitative study was performed using the Concurrent Think-Aloud protocol to observe the mechanisms of transfer and map knowledge flows during 78 search sessions. Findings indicate evidence of transfer of learning in the form of sixteen online information searching strategy indicators. This research aids the understanding of how knowledge is gained during search sessions and how to identify behaviors that could indicate that learning has occurred, which could be used to represent knowledge gain on Web search engines. In this way, it can aid search engines to become not only better tools of searching, but also tools of learning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"Article 101222"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49873793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Library and information science applied studies on collaborative information behavior","authors":"Remigiusz Sapa","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101204","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101204","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Library and information science (LIS) provides only limited support for evidence-based decisions in the field of collaborative information behavior (CIB). In this study using the Web of Science and Library and Information Science and Technology Abstracts databases the researcher identified applied studies in LIS research on CIB, reviewed the studies' ability to provide scientifically proven support for practice, the general goals, and the basic methodological decisions upon which the studies were based. A mixed qualitative/quantitative approach was used, along with the content analysis method. The analysis showed that approximately 50% of the LIS studies on CIB were to some extent applied research, but only 8% concluded with specific recommendations verified during the research. Generally, they were development-oriented, exploratory, explanatory, and descriptive at the same time, synchronic, conducted without specifying the research setting, and based on survey techniques and elicited data. The results reveal the limitations of the potential of LIS research for CIB practice and thus indicate the possibilities of its development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"Article 101204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124796100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vanessa L. Kitzie , Tien-I Tsai , Konstantina Martzoukou , Millicent N. Mabi , Devon Greyson
{"title":"What is next for information world mapping? International and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding information behaviors/practices in context","authors":"Vanessa L. Kitzie , Tien-I Tsai , Konstantina Martzoukou , Millicent N. Mabi , Devon Greyson","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101196","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As the use of arts-involved and data visualization methods increases in information science, it is essential to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of various methods. An international lineup of information researchers shares their experiences using the participatory, visual elicitation technique Information World Mapping (IWM) in their work. The authors begin with an overview of IWM, detailing its origins and emerging directions. They summarize their application of IWM to describe information behaviors/practices across various locations, cultures, disciplines, and technology access environments. The authors conclude by discussing key questions and areas of exploration for IWM in information research, including cultural influences, changes in media and methods for data collection, power dynamics, and researcher positionality and reflexivity. Insights offer new possibilities for the next phase of IWM in information research, including challenges and areas for innovation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"Article 101196"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92076070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hidden, manipulated, and secret information world of gambling addiction: Maximizing use of in-depth, narrative interviews to understand social impact","authors":"Crystal Fulton","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The in-depth, narrative interview approach, its use as a storytelling vehicle, and its effectiveness in combination with other qualitative methods to elicit individuals' experiences and perspectives on the information behaviors which contribute to the social impact of gambling addiction is presented. This focus on the information behaviors of individuals affected by gambling allows them to speak out about a problem that is often side-lined, in part because it has been hidden and remains misunderstood in wider society. Collecting people's lived experiences supports a meaningful analysis of how people navigate information to respond to the problems associated with addiction, creating an understanding of social impact beyond the story of the numbers about addiction and offering policymakers a significant perspective to ameliorate marginalization of individuals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"Article 101193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92003806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of book circulation data and a book recommendation system in academic libraries using data mining techniques","authors":"Shahnaz Khademizadeh , Zahra Nematollahi , Farshid Danesh","doi":"10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2022.101191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The use of data mining modern technology in library management systems and information centers is of great importance. With the increasing availability of a large quantity of information, traditional tools and practices without wasting time and cost cannot respond to users accurately and quickly. The present study aims to analyze book circulation transactions and discover the user's book loan patterns to develop a recommender system. The data included 109,639 transactions and information from 8636 user records. Microsoft SQL Server and Matlab software were applied to analyze the data. Item-based collaborative filtering algorithms and decision tree methods were also applied. The results led to the extraction of rules for suggesting books to users. Analysis of the circulation data could be applied to address many issues like evaluation, collection acquisition policies, allocating funding for materials, and suggesting approaches to deselecting and allocating physical space for materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47618,"journal":{"name":"Library & Information Science Research","volume":"44 4","pages":"Article 101191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92125973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}