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The information-seeking behavior has proven vital in understanding people's search behavior while seeking information about a particular topic or field. However, in some geographical regions, studies that focus on information-seeking...
The research project Information, motivation, and co-creation behaviors of literary tourists and their quest for meaningful experiences explores the behaviors of travelers seeking experiences related to authors, books, or characters....
Established standards and guidelines promote school librarian leadership in technology integration. Despite the imperatives implicit in professional guidelines and standards, school librarians' active engagement as leaders is not...
Socialization of doctoral students refers to the learning and adjustment process through which they acquire information and knowledge about their work, department, university, and discipline. This dissertation explores characteristics...
LIS literature suggests that the information norms of immigrants are situated in information poverty, gatekeeping, and the digital divide—all of which inhibit access to information. The canon primarily addresses how insufficient...
This dissertation research aims to provide a better understanding of people's credibility assessment of online information (i.e., Web credibility assessment), which is an important part of their information behavior. In particular, this...
The access and sharing of research data have been emphasized by the government, funding agencies, and scholarly communities. The increased access to research data increases the impact, as well as the efficiency and effectiveness, of...
Regional cooperation has been a focused thread from the beginning for the development of libraries, the training of staff and the general sharing of resources in the English-speaking Caribbean. Historically, from the eighteenth century...
As one of the most significant and visible examples of collective intelligence, online peer production communities, such as Wikipedia and Stack Overflow, have become critical to the Web’s knowledge infrastructure. The popularity of these...
Tipping the Balance in Privacy Calculus: The Roles of Perceived Trustworthiness, Uncertainty, and Cyber Self-Efficacy in an Online User's Intention to Disclose PII
We should be concerned when our privacy - including our information privacy - is lost. Information privacy impacts us not only as individuals, but collectively as a society. Particularly as regards information privacy online, we stand to...
This dissertation, titled Investigating Music Information Objects, is a study of the nature, description, representations, and ideas related to music information objects (MIOs). This research study investigates how music practitioners...
Community of practice (CoP) of research data curators is a relationship group of data curators with shared values that comes together to network and share their knowledge and ideas. By joining the CoP of research data curators, members...
The rising trend of end-users to bypass the central IT system at the workplace using technologies often unsanctioned by the organizational network policy has challenged the authority to control IT use. This study examines the risks...
This study is a preliminary exploration of adoption of generative adversarial network (GAN)-derived avatar healthcare providers (HCPs). To our knowledge, GAN-derived avatars as de facto HCPs have not been investigated in relation to user...
The purpose of this study is to understand public library users' health information seeking behaviors and what factors may influence the intention of an individual to use the public library as their health information resource. This...
In current news media environments where the separation between fact and opinion is blurred, it is important to understand college students' media literacy practices and variables that may affect how they discern fake news. The purpose...
This research investigated South Korean citizens' political information behaviors on Twitter during the 2014 Seoul Mayoral election. By using the mixed methods design of network analysis, tweet content analysis, and interviews, this...
Behavioral economics has become a significant perspective in the evaluation of human judgment and decision-making. In the limited research literature of cognitive biases in online health information seeking (OHIS) behavior, researchers...
The growing importance of information and communication technologies in public sector organizations drove this study. Many governments around the world have recognized social media as a valuable information and communication tool. The...
We Could Do Better: The Presence, Absence, and Librarian Perceptions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Resources in Small and Rural Public Libraries in Alabama
Although the LGBTQ community, from all appearances, maintains a strong connection to libraries as safe spaces, it is unclear whether the libraries themselves are providing relevant resources and services to the community. In addition, ...
Academic music libraries in the US collect resources to support music students and faculty in their performance and research needs. These resources include non-text items such as musical scores and recordings that are difficult to...
This phenomenological study investigates the narratives of six Black women faculty to ascertain how their experiences contributed to their retention and persistence in Computing. This study, which incorporates Anti-Deficit Achievement...
K-12 schools are making the move to digital learning resources, and are increasingly integrating technology into the curriculum. With training as both a teacher and an information specialist, the school librarian is in a position to help...
Self-Efficacy and Sense of Belonging: A Comparative Analysis of Factors That Affect Differences in Participation in Information Technology Education by Gender
The recruitment and retention of women is a continuing problem in the Information Technology (IT) profession. Despite positive labor statistics for the IT field, American women are underrepresented. The belief that their skill sets are...
The Relationships among Information Consumption, E-Health Literacy, and Information Avoidance in the Era of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structural Equation Modeling Study
This study examined the relationships among eHealth literacy, information consumption from different sources, information overload, information anxiety, and information avoidance. Drawing on the Comprehensive Model of Information...
This study examines the research and scholarship sharing and dissemination practices in an online environment among law school faculty. Guided by one of the most widely used technology usage and adoption models, Unified Theory of...
This study aims to examine the impact of AI on advanced manufacturing (AM) workforce. Recent progress in AI technology is at the core of AM as AI includes different technologies that will lead to the digitization of factories. While AI...
Academic innovation centers (AICs) are a new phenomenon that are being invested in by higher education institutions. As they are a new type of information center, Library and Information Science (LIS) researchers can revisit past LIS...
This research investigates the adoption of smartwatches within the running community. By using a mixed methods design consisting of quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews, this study asks runners what factors influence their...
A mixed-method explanatory sequential design utilizing surveys and interviews conducted at three Florida library systems examines caregivers’ perceptions of emergent literacy programming, how these perceptions compare with the National...
This case study used activity theory to explore how members participate in Wikidata and how they organize their work. This study addresses the need to have greater understanding of knowledge curation work in a large-scale peer-curated...
Predictive modeling can help researchers tackle challenges such as detection, prevention, and treatment for diseases with high mortality rates such as cardiovascular diseases. These diseases involve multiple risk factors that make...
School librarians are uniquely qualified to become technological leaders in their schools, which is supported by current research. Not only are they qualified, but current American Association of School Librarians standards and the...
The Socially Inclusive Role of Curatorial Voice: A Qualitative Comparative Study of the Use of Gatekeeping Mechanisms and the Co-creation of Identity in Museums
Museums, and museum professionals, engage in a significant role within society. This dissertation is a qualitative exploratory study of the ways in which museum professionals promote or hinder the social inclusivity of museums through...
Implementation of Succession Planning and Management Programs in Academic Libraries: A Mixed-Method Study about Leadership and Other Factors That Contribute to Deans’ Decisions
The purpose of this study was to identify and explain the factors that contribute to the implementation of succession planning and management programs (SP&MPs) in academic libraries as a means of addressing the lack of planning for and...
This dissertation research explores health disparities through the lens of information behavior, as defined by Dervin’s Sense-making theory, and evaluates patients’ use of health information for when making BRCA screening decisions. It...
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has steadily increased in prevalence in recent years, with a current estimate of 1 in every 68 children eligible for such a diagnosis. Prevalence within the general population is reflected in the growing...
A Library Is a Place You Can Lose Your Innocence without Losing Your Virginity: LGBTQAI+ Young Adults, Young Adult Literature, & Sexuality Health Information Needs
Although sexual education programs are staples in the middle and high school curricula, many of these courses are abstinence-based which do not serve the needs of the teen demographic, let alone those who are LGBTQAI+ (Orenstein, 2016). ...
In- and Out-of-Character: The Digital Literacy Practices and Emergent Information Worlds of Active Role-Players in a New Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game
This dissertation explores and describes the in-character and out-of-character information worlds and digital literacy practices of role-players, those that create and enact their characters' or avatars' stories, both within and outside...
This dissertation presents findings from a study of knowledge sharing and gaining via cameraphone photography by women who have undergone cesarean sections. Informed by authoritative knowledge, cameraphone photography, and a photo...
Cyberbullying is a problem that many young adults ages 12 to 18 have experienced on a daily basis. Adult support is critical in both the prevention and intervention of cyberbullying. Although parents, teachers, and school administrators...
Although online searching for health information has grown in recent years, the massive amount and unstructured presentation of information make it difficult for users to find relevant data. Despite efforts to structure information...
In July 2013, the social media Facebook campaign, Save the Miami-Dade Public Libraries (SMDPL) sought to influence the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners to reverse proposed budget cuts and maintain existing...
Given the expanding use of clinical registries for a spectrum of uses that range from quality improvement, clinical research, identification of the most effective treatments, post market surveillance of drugs and medical equipment, to...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can impact an individual's academic and employment pursuits. There is little literature that acknowledges autistic employment within librarianship or other information...
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