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Digital libraries must support the existing and emergent communities they serve, lest social opportunities to seek, use, and share information and knowledge become diminished compared to physical libraries. Despite many calls for a...
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 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...
The purpose of this research was to contribute to an important research and practice issue, how users use evaluative metadata (i.e., end-user ratings, annotations, opinions, usage, and experts' recommendations) when searching for...
This study examines the effect of experiential place and local community on information access and behavior for two communities of parents of children with Down syndrome. It uncovers substantive issues associated with health information...
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...
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). ...
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...
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