Jette Hyldegård, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen University, Denmark (tqb473@iva.ku.dk) Background. Increased use of social media for information seeking and learning calls for more research and knowledge of how these emerging technologies...
Paul Matthews, University of the West of England, United Kingdom (paul2.matthews@uwe.ac.uk) Background. Social media often adds a layer of intermediation between sources and information consumer, with users outsourcing some of the information work to others. Social...
Christopher S.G. Khoo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (chriskhoo@pmail.ntu.edu.sg) Background. Social media present a rich environment to study information behaviour, as much of the user interaction is recorded and stored in publicly accessible...
David I. Orenstein, City University of New York, United States (dorenstein@mec.cuny.edu) Lisa Stoll-Ron, Warren County Community College, United States (lstoll@warren.edu) Background. Filtering software is used in libraries to block Web-based content; this includes...
This is the inaugural issue of LIBRES e-journal under “new management” at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The first 23 volumes of LIBRES were published by the Department of Information Studies, Curtin University. It was then felt that a change in...
