Finders, keepers, losers, seekers: a study of academics' research-related personal information collections

Authors:
Mashael Al-Omar;Andrew Cox
Affiliations:
Information School, University of Sheffield, UK;Information School, University of Sheffield, UK
Venue:
HCI International'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information: information and interaction design - Volume Part I
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In conducting their research, scholars are not only information seekers, they are information keepers and managers as well. This paper describes a study of seventeen scholars from Education and Health disciplines (College of Nursing and Health Science College) in the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), Kuwait and their research-related personal information collections. A model explaining the size, diversity, hybridity and fragmentation of these collections to immediate and underlying causes is presented.