Libraries and archives have long been rich sites of exploration for LGBTQ+ people in search
of self-understanding, identification, shared experience, and community. Yet the information …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate what metadata elements for access
points currently exist to represent diverse library reading materials, either in libraries or from …

The omnipresence and escalating efficiency of digital, networked information systems
alongside the resulting deluge of digital corpora, apps, software, and data has coincided …

Abstract Information systems serve as the “source of truth” for much of social reality, from
credit scores to eligibility for boarding an airplane to the current time. In contexts of practical …

While migrant workers play an important role in maintaining the Canadian work force, unlike
permanent residents and Canadian citizens, they are permitted to work in Canada only for …

Purpose–This study aims to examine how systems for organizing information may present
an authorial voice and shows how the mechanism of voice may work to persuasively …

This study investigates the argument patterns in Yahoo! Answers, a major question and
answer (Q&A) site. Mainly drawing on the ideas of T oulmin (), argument pattern is …

Purpose This chapter offers a re-description of knowledge organization in light of genre and
activity theory. Knowledge organization needs a new description in order to account for …

Purpose–The major aim of this study is to specify the ways in which rhetorical strategies are
employed in Q&A (question and answer) discussion, and how information sources are used …

In this paper, we describe the Critical Catalog, a grant-funded research through design
project intended to investigate metadata elements, values, and organizational structures …