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Vol. 31 No. ISIC (2026): Proceedings of the 16th ISIC - The Information Behaviour Conference, Montréal, Canada, June 1-4, 2026

Published: 2026-05-25

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Editorial, Organisers, Acknowledgements, and Table of contents

Rebekah Willson, Sarah Polkinghorne, Pam McKenzie

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Exploring health information needs in Islamic contexts through health fatwa questions in Saudi Arabia

Mahmoud Alblowi, Ian Ruthven, Perla Innocenti

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Repetition, regulation and reappraisal: Information behaviour in persistent coping with chronic illness in families

Lindsay K. Brown, Tiffany C.E. Veinot

20-44
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Who’s a heretic now? Conceptualising information seeking on controversial topics

George Buchanan, Dana McKay, Yimin Chen, Ian Ruthven

45-60
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Platforms, algorithms, and the shifting boundaries of information horizons

Kayla Burt

61-77
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Educational technology and the everyday information practices that shape student thinking and learning

Kayla Burt, Damian Bebell

78-96
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Taxonomies as boundary objects for social change: enhancing visibility of academics’ impact-related information behaviours

Joann Cattlin, Lisa M. Given, Rolf Hvidtfeldt, Marianne Lykke

97-113
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Information behaviour of data breach victims and the relevance of health information avoidance

Hung Fai Joseph Cheng, Paul Scifleet, Misita Anwar

114-138
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Seeking relations and kin: pursuing the information seeking practices and experiences of Indigenous students

Cora Coady, Tina Liu, Desmond Wong

139-149
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Navigating subjectivity in causal context: a non-deterministic approach for information behaviour research

Marek Deja

150-168
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Social media practices among academics: the case of Sri Lankan universities

Nishantha Gamage, Pethigamage Perera, Sangeetha Kutty, Ritesh Chugh

169-181
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Foraging for instruction: a microethnography of academic librarians’ information behaviours and practices in instructional planning

Aleksandar Golijanin

182-200
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Floating libraries and Bible rolling papers: accessing books and information while incarcerated

Elizabeth Willson Gordon, Rebekah Willson

201-209
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Situated storywalks: a participant-led elicitation method

Elke Greifeneder, Maria Gäde, Kaitlin E. Montague

210-225
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Information practices are environmental

Isto Huvila

226-240
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‘Helping people with literally everything under the sun’: exploring the work and information behaviours of constituency caseworkers

Charlotte Jackson, Emma Nicol, Ian Ruthven

241-257
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Cultural community as an information ground of Middle Eastern women refugees in Sweden: a road to better integration into society

Khadijah Kainat, Kristina Eriksson-Backa

258-275
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'I know a place': the informational value and loss of queer spaces

Vanessa Kitzie, Travis Wagner

276-291
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Viewing leisure as experience

Priya Kizhakkethil

292-306
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‘I’d rather not have known this’: a study of information regret

Dirk Lewandowski

307-320
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Exploring emerging knowledge landscapes through preprints: a DIKW-based computational framework for transforming data into actionable scholarly insights

Tzu-Yu Lin, Pei-Chun Lee

321-337
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iSchool students’ mental models of GenAI

Irene Lopatovska, Conor Mack, Ellen Connors

338-355
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What is left unshared: using a third space lens to explore information sharing behaviour within scrum in agile software development

Anika Meyer, Ina Fourie, Preben Hansen

356-381
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Is trust enough? Parents’ health information behaviour around childhood vaccination

Anna Mierzecka

382-398
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‘Transparency would be lovely’: differences in information seeking and assessing behaviours between vaccine hesitant and vaccine confident mothers of newborns

Maria Mulder, Emily Gemmell, Julie A. Bettinger, Devon Greyson

399-414
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Understanding immigrant information acculturation: perspectives and recommendations for information behaviour research

Ana Ndumu, Hayley Park, Connie Siebold

415-440
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Self-stigma, alcohol use disorder, information behaviour: a theoretical and conceptual synthesis

Opeyemi Rachael Oboh

441-455
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When digital systems meet human-centred work: a qualitative study of information behaviour

Marie Ollerup Sall, Tove Faber Frandsen

456-466
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Bridging theory and practice: affordance theory as a methodological link in information interaction and repository design

Danica Pawlick-Potts

467-483
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Race, identity, and everyday life information-seeking: a study of African American teens in Chicago

Faith Rice

484-501
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Information behaviours and the inner life

Ian Ruthven

502-523
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Push me, pull you: factors that drive information-seekers away from traditional environments and towards LLMs

Priti Shah, Stephann Makri, George Buchanan, Dana McKay

524-537
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Celebrating 30 years of the ISIC conference: citation impact and collaboration

Mette Skov, Birger Larsen

538-557
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Constructing trust in health information: older adults’ information behaviours during the COVID-19 pandemic

Maryline Vivion, Valérie Reid, Alexandre Coutant, Eve Dubé, Christopher Fletcher, André Tourigny

558-573
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How catastrophic misinterpretation triggers health anxiety: health information seeking as a mediator in rural China’s information-poor populations

Lin Wang, Chi Xu, Sisi Song

574-601
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The impact of information encountering on the health literacy of older adults in health science short videos

Xiaojuan Xu, Li Pan, Manli Wu, Yuxiang Zhao, Zerui Zhao

602-621
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Information behaviour as a mediator of the influence of e-health literacy on counselling decisions among Universitas Indonesia students

Muhammad Yusrizal, Rahmi, Muhamad Prabu Wibowo, Indira Irawati

622-635
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Information behaviour as a framework for exploring STEM participation of Black women

Joanna Adewunmi

636-644
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Rethinking information practices to embrace avoidance: everything old is new again

Jenny Bronstein, Alison Hicks, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, Pam McKenzie, Ian Ruthven

645-651
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Information is a gun: recognising information facilitated interpersonal harms

Yimin Chen, Dana McKay

652-658
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Passing the vibe check: initial findings from an investigation into the health information behaviours of LGBTQ+ individuals with disabilities

Miranda L. Downey, Marilyn Harbert, Sarina Li

659-669
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Supporting a new generation of informed voters: an interdisciplinary literature review pairing informed voting and current events information behaviours

Nancy Ross Dribin

670-677
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A literature review of the information needs and behaviours of Black adults and the predominance of studies on health information

Jamillah R. Gabriel

678-683
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Non-events and nothings: the potential of negatively defined phenomena for information science

Andrea Kampen, Kaitlin E. Montague

684-692
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‘Bonnetheads’ fandom: information experiences of Little House on the Prairie cast members

Amy Lanier, Tara Zimmerman, Priya Kizhakkethil

693-700
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Hiding in plain sight: the linguistic and behavioural challenges of second language learners in academic search

Tim Leigh, Frances Johnson

701-709
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Exploring fandom as information practices: a phenomenographic pilot study of Chinese K-pop music fans

Chengling Li, Somsak Sriborisutsakul

710-719
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‘The industry will tell you what you’re good for:’ theatrical typecasting, information embodiment, and body capital

Julia Anne Maxwell

720-726
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‘Get rid of the unimportant so that the important can shine’: an exploration of vehicle residents’ personal collections and information practices

Kaitlin E. Montague, Helene Hellmich

727-738
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Information as compost: decentring humans in information practices research

Owen Stewart-Robertson, Kaitlin E. Montague

739-751
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Mapping information uncertainty in hospital wayfinding through patient journey maps

Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá

752-761
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Information behaviour concepts in the reference service research

Amy VanScoy

762-769
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Decolonising information: comparing Western conceptions of information to Indigenous Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Connor White

770-776
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Authenticity, performativity, and contextuality

Tyler Youngman

777-785
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