Vol. 30 No. CoLIS (2025): Proceedings of CoLIS: 12th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science – University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, 2nd-5th June 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30CoLIS

Published: 2025-05-19

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Editorial

Preface, Organisation, and Table of Content

Perla Innocenti, Emma Nicol, Ian Ruthven

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Peer-reviewed papers

Navigating exceptionalism: the role of public libraries in times of crisis and war rhetoric

Hanna Carlsson, Lisa Engström

1-14
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Library time: in pursuit of liberatory leisure

Jeremy Keen Abbott

15-28
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Public library services for migrants in national government policies across eight European countries: a comparative analysis

Andreas Vårheim, Jamie Johnston, Eeva-Liisa Eskola, Henrik Jochumsen, Małgorzata Kisilowska-Szurmińska, Ágústa Pálsdóttir, Kerstin Rydbeck, Máté Tóth, Ulla Wimmer, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi, Anna Mierzecka, Sunniva Evjen, Roswitha Skare

29-51
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Tracing the archival turn: genealogies, dimensions and implications

Li Su

52-64
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Exploring the adoption of collections as data in the GLAM context

Meltem Dişli, Nele Gabriëls, Sally Chambers, Sarah Ames, Beth Knazook, Gustavo Candela

65-77
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‘What we have lost is patients who can’t handle the information’ – information misuse and open record access

Camilla Lyckblad

78-90
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‘It’s such a blackbox function’: Norwegian academic librarians’ ambivalent perceptions towards AI use in academic libraries and academia

Idunn Bøyum, Mahmood Khosrowjerdi

91-104
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Advancing library operations with AI: data-driven insights for academic resource management

Néstor A. Nova, Hernán Morales, Juan Pájaro, Andrea González

105-120
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(Un)conventional ways of dialogic information retrieval using prompt engineering and the role of AI literacy

Monika Krakowska, Magdalena Zych

121-140
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Life pours back: exploring hiking, wellbeing and information behaviour on the West Highland Way

Keith Munro, Perla Innocenti, Mark Dunlop

141-158
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Reciprocity in information exchange: how social exchange enriches collaborative research partnerships

Joann Cattlin, Lisa M. Given

159-173
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Geographical information ranges: conceptualising holistic information landscapes

Kaitlin E. Montague

174-182
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Exploring agency with and in participatory research on artificial intelligence in everyday information practices

Aira Huttunen, Tuula Nygård, Noora Hirvonen

183-189
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Information sources of emergency physicians in the Covid-19 crisis

Dijana Lekic-Savatic, Anna Lezon-Rivière, Madjid Ihadjadene

190-204
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Advertising legitimacy – an analysis of authorised and unauthorised pharmacy websites

Cecilia Andersson

205-220
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‘It can also be a really positive place’: co-research on young people’s health information literacy practices in social media

Anna-Maija Multas, Meri Kulmala

221-236
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It’s textbook: controlling the narrative about residential schools in Ontario classrooms

Connor White

237-253
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From consciousness to actions: shaping the library consciousness of ethnic minorities with an actor-network theory approach

Qian Quan, Wei Feng, Lihong Zhou

254-270
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Neutrality vs. social justice: a democratic perspective

Casper Hvenegaard Rasmussen, Nanna Kann-Rasmussen

271-277
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Informational self-deception: deconstruction and reconstruction within philosophy of information

Juliana Mestre

278-290
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Theorising notions of searching, (re)sources and evaluation in the light of generative AI

Olof Sundin

291-302
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Towards informational social epistemology

Dominic Dixon

303-315
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Singing in the rain: the role of umbrella concepts in library and information science

Ian Ruthven, Alison Hicks, Pamela J. McKenzie, Jenny Bronstein, Jette Seiden Hyldegård, Gunilla Widén

316-322
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The multispecies perspective in library and information science

Niloofar Solhjoo

323-330
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Opposing book bans: a resilient and subversive information practice

Shannon M. Oltmann, Fatima Espinoza Vasquez

331-343
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Exploring culture war related attacks on public libraries: results from a pilot study on information activities of the far-right

Fredrik Hanell, Hanna Carlsson, Daniel Ihrmark

344-365
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Small acts to make safe space: a case study of the Queer Liberation Library as a queer space

Z. Coltman

366-374
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Creating space for climate justice in library and information science

Tami Oliphant, Tyler Youngman, Dan Hackborn, Lisa Nathan, Beth Patin

375-391
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Beyond barriers and borders: Digital literacy support for English language learners via communities of practice

Yeweon Kim, Alison Harding, Jane Ingram Behre, Uhjin Sim, Mega Subramaniam

392-407
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Being literate in data or practices: how paradata functions in the context of literacy

Isto Huvila, Michael Olsson, Olle Sköld, Jessica Kaiser, Lisa Andersson

408-423
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Information literacy as part of an interdisciplinary approach to combat misinformation

Laura Saunders

424-442
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Two decades of critical information literacy: a review and analysis of the literature

Eamon Tewell

443-460
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Information practice and information behaviour: on the need for conceptual and theoretical clarity

Ola Pilerot, Björn Ekström

461-473
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The implied information ‘actor’ – revisiting models of information behaviour through a Meta-Ethnographic approach

Jette Seiden Hyldegård

474-488
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Exploring pilgrims’ information behaviour and spiritual skills development

Ebtihal Wafa, Perla Innocenti, Ian Ruthven

489-497
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Genre knowledge: a metacognitive approach to exploring document practices in science

Samuel Dodson

498-507
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‘Making the building blocks small’ - the participative and capital-enhancing development of digital literacies in older adults

Drew Feeney, Frances V. C. Ryan, David Brazier, Gemma Webster

508-516
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The body as misinformation – examining the role of bodily information in the formation of false health beliefs

Brynne Campbell Rice

517-524
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Not all who wander are lost: an argument for searching to browse as a separate information behaviour

Dana McKay, Michael Twidale, George Buchanan

525-539
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‘There’s no onboarding, no orientation:’ the role of neoliberal university structures in the lives of precarious academics

Rebekah Willson, Heidi Julien, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Lisa M. Given

540-550
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The information needs and behaviours of creative artists: a meta-ethnography of research, 2019-24

Rachel A. Fleming-May

551-566
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Overloaded and isolated? Preliminary findings on overcoming information challenges for incarcerated university students

Isabel Virgo

567-573
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‘It's a wide cluster of noise’: experiencing and describing information from environmental sounds

Owen Stewart-Robertson

574-582
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Charting the future of library and information science in Australia and New Zealand through research, education and practice partnerships

Edward Luca, Bhuva Narayan, Mary Anne Kennan

583-603
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The relational dimension of librarianship

Sunniva Evjen

604-617
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Combat and sacrifice: the culture of information crisis in teaching librarianship

Rebecca Noone, Alison Hicks

618-627
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From realism and socio-cognitivism to AI constructs: enhancing domain analysis through artificial intelligence?

Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman

628-642
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The knowledge organisation of sub-subgenres: the curious case of the collaborative works of Gilbert and Sullivan

Deborah Lee

643-655
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Using digital ethnography to research embodied information practices on social media

Laura Williams

656-663
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Algorithmic Gossiping: sharing and non-sharing that evolve algorithmic imaginaries to folk theories

Gaohui Cao, Zhang Wen, Puyi Liu

664-672
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