CALL FOR PAPERS
The Australian Library Journal - Special Issue on INFORMATION BEHAVIOUR
Guest Editor:
Amanda Spink
Professor of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Email: ah.spink@qut.edu.au
IMPORTANT DATES:
Full papers due: December 1 2007
Authors receive reviews: December 15 2007
Final papers due: February 1 2008
Anticipated publication: First quarter 2008
The Australian Library Journal has been published since 1951. Published quarterly, it contains a wide coverage of Australian library issues, including research. It is the acknowledged flagship publication of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). The journal is available through subscription.
ISSUE FOCUS
This special issue is seeking theoretical or empirical papers on any aspect of information behaviour.
Information behaviour is a basic element of human kind. Humans have sought, organized and used information for millennia as they evolved and learned patterns of information behaviour to help resolve their human problems and survive. The field of library and information science is a leading discipline in conducting research that seeks to understand human information related behaviours. Various interdisciplinary perspectives to information behaviour are emerging, including an information foraging approach, sense-making approach, information seeking approach, an everyday life information seeking approach and a more holistic approach integrating various approaches with information use and organisation. Theoretical and empirical papers discussing any aspect of information behaviour are encouraged.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions of 3-5000 words should be emailed in Word format to the special issue editor, Amanda Spink at ah.spink@qut.edu.au.
The AGPS Style Manual is used. For further information see - http://alia.org.au/publishing/alj/
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Amanda Spink
Research Capacity Building Professor of Information Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus
2 George St, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4001 Australia
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au
Tel: 61-7-3138-9583 Fax: 61-7-3864-2703
Email: ah.spink@qut.edu.au
Homepage: http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/
