The USE SIG of ASIS&T is celebrating its 10th anniversary at the annual ASIS&T conference in Vancouver, BC this year with a symposium on collaborative information seeking, followed by a plenary reception. The conference proper also looks to have some interesting papers and panels, including
- Results of a Factorial Survey Investigating the Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Older Adults
Mary Stansbury, Ruth Ludwick - “It Challenges Members to Think of Their Work Through Another Kind of Specialist’s Eyes”: Exploration of the Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Digital Project Teams
Lynne Siemens, Wendy Duff, Claire Warwick, Richard Cunningham - Evaluating a Metadata-based Term Suggestion Interface for PubMed with Real Users with Real Requests
Muh-Chyun Tang, Wan-Ching Wu, Bang-Woei Hung - Diverse Approaches to “Tasks” in Information Science: Conceptual and Methodological Insights
Theresa Anderson, Katriina Bystrom, Luanne Freund, Louise Limberg, Eric Myers, Elaine Toms - Beyond (Simple) Reading: Strategies, Discoveries, and Collaborations
Vetle Torvik, Allen Renear, Neil Smalheiser, Cathy Marshall