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Prelims

Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)

Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting

ISBN: 978-1-80382-048-4, eISBN: 978-1-80382-047-7

Publication date: 21 July 2022

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Ruthven, I. (2022), "Prelims", Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-047-720221012

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Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting

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Dealing With Change Through Information Sculpting

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Ian Ruthven

University of Strathclyde, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

To John Rooney and Kayla Ruthven, with love.

List of Figures

Figure 1. Crisis Decision Theory.
Figure 2. Straus's Model of Religious Conversion.
Figure 3. Role Exit Theory.
Figure 4. The Transition Curve.
Figure 5. The Transitions Cycle.
Figure 6. Translocal Meaning Making.
Figure 7. Result of Theory Synthesis.
Figure 8. Initial Information Behaviour Theory of Transitions.
Figure 9. Information Behaviour Theory of Transitions.
Figure 10. Information Behaviour Theory of Transitions Augmented With Behaviours From Family and Relationships.
Figure 11. Information Behaviour Theory of Transitions Augmented with Behaviours from Work.
Figure 12. Information Behaviour Theory of Transitions Augmented with Behaviours from Health.
Figure 13. Information Behaviour Theory of Transitions Augmented with Behaviours from Sex and Sexuality.
Figure 14. Final Information Behaviour Theory of Transitions.

About the Author

Ian Ruthven is Professor of Information Seeking and Retrieval in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK. His research focusses on understanding how people interact with information, particularly in how they seek information and the barriers they may face in seeking information. He is a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Pretoria and has won several awards for the quality of his research, including the Tony Kent Strix Memorial Award for major contributions to the field of Information Retrieval.

Acknowledgements

This project started as the result of an invited presentation that I gave to the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference in Zadar, Croatia, in 2016. The research for that presentation led me to believe that there was a larger project in the area of how we respond informationally to significant life changes and the kind and constructive feedback that I received from the ISIC audience – always a supportive intellectual community – encouraged me to continue with this line of study in the form of a monograph. I am very grateful to Professors Ivanka Stričević and Reijo Savolainen for the invitation to speak at this conference. I am also grateful to Professor Adam Jatowt for an invitation to speak at the International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries and to Professor Yuelin Li and Dr Yao Zhang from the University of Nankai for an invitation to speak to their colleagues and students. The comments and insights from both audiences were very beneficial in developing the ideas expressed here.

I am enormously grateful to my colleagues in the Strathclyde Information Science Research Group, past and present, who listened to various parts of this project, shared insights and critical commentary, and, most importantly, provided motivation when confidence was flagging. I am particularly thankful to Dr Perla Innocenti for her insightful and always encouraging comments. I am very appreciative of my wonderful colleagues in the University of Strathclyde Library who provided easy access to so many useful texts, especially during those long periods of lockdown, and all those who provide access to research resources.

I am very thankful to all the authors whose work is cited here and the wider Information Science research communities with which I have had the pleasure of interacting with over the past few years.

Brindha Thirunavukkarasu, Iram Satti and David Mulvaney at Emerald have been a wonderfully supportive, responsive and constructive team to work with, thank you all.

I am most grateful to my partner John and to my family – especially my late parents, Gordon and Doreen – for their love, support and unfailing kindness.

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