Editorial


Invited paper:
Blaise Cronin
The waxing and waning of a field: reflections on information studies education

Sari Mäkinen
Mobile work and its challenges to personal and collective information management
Yan Zhang
College students' uses and perceptions of social networking sites for health and wellness information
Sandra Miguel, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Claudia González and Félix de Moya Anegón
Analysis and visualization of the dynamics of research groups in terms of projects and co-authored publications. A case study of library and information science in Argentina
Rita Marcella and Laura Illingworth
The impact of information behaviour on small business failure
Annikki Roos
Activity theory as a theoretical framework in the study of information practices in molecular medicine
Kwan Yi and Chan Yun Yoo
An empirical examination of the associations between social tags and Web queries
Esmail Karamidehkordi
Access to printed and electronic information sources as means of continuing professional development of Iranian agricultural staff
Mikko Tanni
Teacher trainees� information acquisition in lesson planning
Daniel Belanche Gracia, Luis Vicente Casaló Ariño & Carlos Flavian Blanco
Understanding the influence of social information sources on e-government adoption
Helena Heizmann
Workplace information practices among human resources professionals: discursive boundaries in action
Anna Lundh and Louise Limberg
Designing by decorating: the use of pictures in primary school

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Reviews

ball  Büttcher, Stefan., Clarke, Charles L.A. and Cormark, Gordon V. Information retrieval: implementing and evaluating search engines.. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2010.
ball  Dobreva, Milena, O'Dwyer, Andy and Feliciati, Pierluigi (eds.). User studies for digital library development. London: Facet Publishing, 2012.
ball  Fox, Edward A., Gonçalves, M.A. and Shen, Rao. Theoretical foundations for digital libraries: the 5S (societies, scenarios, spaces, structures, streams) approach. San Raphael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012.
ball  Harvey, Ross. Preserving digital materials.. 2nd ed. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2012.
ball  Rheingold, Howard. Net smart: how to thrive online.. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
ball  Sharma, Ravindra N. (Ed.) Libraries in the early 21st century: an international perspective /IFLA. 2 vol. Berlin: De Gruyter Saur, 2012.
ball  Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Googlization of everything (and why we should worry) Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011.


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Conference announcements


13th International Symposium of Information Science
World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'13), Olhão, Algarve, Portugal, March 27-30, 2013
Colis 8: Eighth International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen, August 19-22, 2013
17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Valetta, Malta, 22-26 September, 2013

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