An implicit, but pervasive view in the information science community is that people are perpetual seekers after new public information, incessantly identifying and consuming new information by browsing the Web and accessing public collections. One aim of this review is to move beyond this consumer characterization, which regards information as a public resource containing novel data that we see...

Trust of information has always been a critical issue in large distributed environments. With the rapid and recent development of online communities and social networks, it has been evident that the Web will rely more and more on user-edited information. As a consequence trust in the correctness of data is falling dramatically and no general solution has been proposed in order to consider that ...

The challenges involved in the practice of personal information management (PIM) has become greater than ever due to dynamic and diverse environment, and increased responsibility for the user. Based on this observation, this position paper argues that more research efforts should be put on guiding users to improve their own PIM practices (behavioral approach), as opposed to building and evaluat...

Organizations such as universities collect and use personal data about customers such as students. How do students feel about their university’s practices related to error in data and access to personal data? Using data collected via a survey of 187 students at a large U.S. university, we investigate the effects of these two privacy and security concerns on students’ feeling of alienation. Impl...

Traditional, centralised offices and workspaces have provided a common setting for information practices research (Courtright, 2007; Harris and Dewdney, 1994). One specific line of information practices inquiry concerns personal information management, individuals’ daily activities of “acquiring, organising, maintaining, retrieving, using, and controlling the distribution of information items” ...

Personal information management has been described as a game of catch, where a person tosses their personal information into the future, in hopes of being able to catch the information later when it is needed [2]. This report focuses on the catching aspect of personal information management, discussing current approaches to and problems with how people return to previously encountered informati...