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Author: Ian Ruthven

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Ian Ruthven

Ian is a Professor of Information Seeking and Retrieval in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. His research is focussed on the human experience of interacting with information, particularly on how people find information. This involves understanding how people seek information, designing appropriate interactive search systems, and developing human-focussed approaches for evaluating information systems. He has conducted this research in various contexts including health, migration, and cultural heritage. He is the author of, Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting, a new book that uncovers how people respond informationally to major life transitions by examining our information behaviours – how we provide, seek, assess, share, use, deny, avoid, and create information – during times of personal change and explains the role of these behaviours in reconstructing ourselves following a life event.
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Collaborative Interpretation as Craft: Slow Theory Development in Library and Information Science

by Alison Hicks, Pam McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, Ian Ruthven, Gunilla Widén April 1, 2024 0

Within Library and Information Science (LIS), theory development has typically prioritised the use of theory rather than its construction as well as the work of... Read more.