ISIC 2004, Dublin, September 1st-3rd 2004.
ISIC 2004 Committee
Department of Library and Information Studies
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4, Ireland

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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
10am - 4pm Doctoral Workshop
6pm - 7pm Welcome Reception, Lord Mayor's Residence
7pm Dinner at Fado Restaurant, Mansion House
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
8:30am Registration
Coffee/tea
9:30am Opening of ISIC 2004
10am Keynote: Kalervo Järvelin
Information seeking research needs extension toward tasks and tools
Chair:- Pertti Vakkari
11am Coffee/tea break
 
Presentations - 2 Parallel Sessions
Session One- Models of Information Seeking
Chair:- Carol Kuhlthau
Session Two- Constructing Information Seeking Research
Chair:- Linda Banwell
11.30-12.00 Nils Pharo
pSST - Here Comes Another Model of Information Behavior
Michael Olsson
Meaning and Authority: The Social Construction of an "Author" Among Information Behaviour Researchers
12.00-12.30 Raya Fidel and Annalise Pejtersen
From Information Behavior Research to the Design of Information Systems: The Cognitive Work Analysis Framework
Lynne McKechnie, George Goodall, Heidi Julien, and Darian Lajoie-Paquette
How Human Information Behaviour Researchers Use Each Other's Work: A Basic Citation Analysis Study
12.30-1.00 Allen Foster
A Model of Nonlinear Information Seeking Behaviour
Konstantina Martzoukou
Methodological Considerations in Research Foci of Current Web Information Seeking Research
Research Notes
1.00-1.10 Harriet Lonnqvist
Humanistic Research Processes and Information Searchers: Two Typologies
Heidi Julien, Lynne McKechnie and Sandra Hart
A Content Analysis of Affective Issues in Library and Information Science Systems Work
1.10-1.20 Sandra Tury and Jane Reid
Information Seeking Behaviour in Distance Learning
Elena Macevicuate
Trends of Information Needs Research in Russia and Lithuania
 
1:30 pm Lunch
Networking lunch - Sign up sheet at Registration Desk
 
Presentations - 2 Parallel Sessions
Session One- Speaking of Users: Discourse Analysis Approaches
Chair:- Louise Limberg
Session Two- Managing Information for Use
Chair:- David Ellis
2.30-3.00 Reijo Savolainen
Enthusiastic, Realistic and Critical: Discourses of Internet Use in the Context of Everyday Life Information Seeking
David Allen
Spreading the Load: Mobile Information and Communications Technologies and Their Effect on Information Overload
3.00-3.30 Ase Hedemark, Jenny Hedman and Olaf Sundin
Speaking of Users: On User Discourses in the Field of Public Libraries
Hester Meyer
The Nature of Information and Its Effective Use in Rural Development
3.30-4.00 Kimmo Tuominen
"Whoever…" Moral Tensions in Heart Patients' and Their Spouses' Talk About Information Seeking
Maureen Mackenzie
Managers Look to the Social Network to Seek Information
Research Notes
4.00-4.10 Nicola Parker
What is Enough for High Achievement? Exploring Postgraduates' Understandings of the Concept of 'Enough' for Assessment
Airenobeuan E. Adetimirin
Information Seeking Behaviour of the Catholic Religious in Ibadan, Nigeria
 
4:45pm Viking Tour pick-up
 
 
Thursday, September 2, 2004
9:30am Keynote: Carol Kuhlthau
Toward collaboration between information seeking research and information retrieval
Chair:- Tom Wilson
10:30am Doctoral Poster Presentations
Chair:- Joyce Kirk
Coffee/tea break
 
Presentations - 2 Parallel Sessions
Session One- People as Information Sources
Chair:- Julie Hersberg
Session Two- Using Formal and Informal Channels
Chair:- David Allen
11.30-12.00 Catherine Johnson
Choosing People: The Role of Social Capital in Information Seeking Behaviour
Lynda Baker
The Information Needs of Female Police Officers Involved in Undercover Prostitution Work
12.00-12.30 Tom Wilson
Talking About the Problem: A Content Analysis of Pre-Search Interviews
Elizabeth Yakel
Seeking Information, Seeking Connections, Seeking Meaning: Genealogists and Family Historians
Research Notes
12.30-12.40 Jessica Bates
Use of the Episodic Interview Method in Everyday Life Information Behaviour Research
Zahed Bigdeli
Information Seeking Behaviour: The Case of Specialists, Residents and Interns at the Hospitals of Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences
12.40-12.50 AnnBritt Enochsson
To Seek, Find and Scrutinize
Beverley French
"Now I Come to Think of It…" Hidden Uncertainty and Information Need in Nursing
12.50-1.00 Nei-Ching Yeh and Shan-Ju Chang
Information and the Life Worlds of Senior Citizens in a Residential Home: A Case Study of Taipei City Chao-Ju Senior Citizen Home, Taiwan
Lisa Given
Faculty & Librarians' Perspective on Academic Space: Setting the Stage for Students' Information Behaviours
1.00-1.10 Jette Hyldegaard
Between Individual and Group: Exploring Social Information Behaviour in Context
N. Subramanian, B. Ramesh Babu and S. Gopalakrishnan
Information Seeking Behavior of Faculty of Engineering Institutions in Tamilnadu (India)
 
1:30 pm Lunch
 
Presentations - 2 Parallel Sessions
Session One- Concepts of Relevance and Usefulness
Chair:- Mary Burke
Session Two- Everyday Life Information Seeking
Chair:- AnnBritt Enochsson
2.30-3.00 Theresa Anderson
Relevance as Process: Judgments in the Context of Scholarly Research
Christina Courtright
Health Information Seeking Among Latino Newcomers: An Exploratory Study
3.00-3.30 Sanna Torma and Pertti Vakkari
Discipline, Availability of Electronic Resources and the Use of FINELIB by University Faculty
Karen Fisher, Betty Marcoux, Lupine Miller, Agueda Sanchez and Eva Cunningham
Information Behavior of Migrant Hispanic Farm Workers and Their Families in the Pacific Northwest
3.30-4.00 Sanna Talja, Reijo Savolainen and Hanni Maula
Field Differences in the Use and Perceived Usefulness of Scholarly Mailing Lists: An Exploratory Study
Karen Fisher, Charles Naumer, Joan Durrance, Lynn Stromski and Torben Christiansen
Something Old, Something New: Preliminary Findings from an Exploratory Study about People's Information Habits and Information Grounds
Research Notes
4.00-4.10 Gerald Benoit, Lois Chan, and James Andrews
"LOIS" - Locally-organized information system
Janet Cooper and Christine Urquhart
Gaining Access to the Closed World of Older People Receiving Homecare: A Qualitative Study Approach
4.10-4.20 A.D. Madden, N.J. Ford, D. Miller and P. Levy
Information Seeking by Children at an English Secondary School: The Difference Between Information Resources Perceived to be Useful and Information Resources Found to be Useful
Louise Guillame and Peter Bath
Parents' Information Needs and Information Sources about Parenting Issues
 
7pm Gala Dinner at Dublin Castle
 
 
Friday, September 3, 2004
9:30am PPC Meeting
 
Presentations - 2 Parallel Sessions
Session One- Assessing, Controlling and Using Information
Chair:- Joan Durrance
Session Two- Information Seeking of University Students
Chair:- Reijo Savolainen
11.30-12.00 Claire McInerny and Nora Bird
Assessing Website Quality in Context: Retrieving Information about Genetically Modified Food on the Web
Gillian Kerins, Ronan Madden and Crystal Fulton
Information Seeking and Students Studying for Professional Careers: The Cases of Engineering and Law Students in Ireland
12.00-12.30 Elisabeth Davies and Pamela McKenzie
Preparing for Opening Night: Temporal Boundary Objects in Textually-Mediated Professional Practice
Eeva-Liisa Eskola
Information Literacy of Medical Students Studying in Problem-Based and Traditional Curriculum
12.30-1.00 Harry Bruce, William Jones and Susan Dumais
Information Behaviors that Keep Found Things Found
Xiangmin Zhang, Hermina Anghelescu and Xiaojun Yuan
Domain Knowledge, Search Behavior, and Search Effectiveness of Engineering/Science Students: An Exploratory Study
Research Notes
1.00-1.10 Eric Thivant
Information Seeking and Use Behaviour of Economists and Analysts
John Buschman and Dorothy Warner
Undergraduate Academic Information Seeking and the Free Web
1.10-1.20 Tonyia Tidline
Art Work as Information Process
 
 
1:30 pm Lunch
2:30pm Panel
4pm Closing & Reception
 
 
Saturday, September 4, 2004
Optional Tours (as shown on Online Registration):

Newgrange (1/2 day bus tour)
Coast and Garden Tour: Powerscourt (1/2 day bus tour)
Dublin Bay and Malahide Castle (1/2 day bus tour)