Library and information studies

Rebecca Giblin

Scott McQuire

Scott McQuire is Professor of Media and Communications in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is one..

Aaron Corn

Professor Aaron Corn is a leading interdisciplinary scholar in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. His award-winning research focusses..

Does This Apply to Me? An Empirical Study of Technical Context in Stack Overflow

A Galappaththi, S Nadi, C Treude

Conference Proceedings  |  2022  |  Proceedings 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference MSR 2022

Stack Overflow has become an essential technical resource for developers. However, given the vast amount of knowledge available on..

Telling social stories: family history in the library

A Barnwell

Journal article  |  2015  |  AUSTRALIAN LIBRARY JOURNAL

This article explores the changing relationship between family historians and libraries. Written from a sociological perspective, ..

PRE-PRINT Lend me some sugar: Borrowing rates of neighbouring books as evidence for browsing

D MCKAY, MW Smith, SL Chang

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  Proceedings of the ... ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

There is more to choosing a book than simply keyword searching. Browsing is a fundamental part of the information seeking process,..

Nyingarn: A Platform for Primary Sources in Australian Indigenous Languages

Nyingarn: A Platform for Primary Sources in Australian Indigenous Languages

EU - Australia Knowledge Network Including a Research Activity “Towards Smart, Net-Zero Energy Buildings: Lessons Learnt From the European Union”

Changing morals: we're more compassionate than 100 years ago, but more judgmental too

Nick Haslam, Melanie J. McGrath, Melissa A. Wheeler

Values such as care, compassion and safety are more important to us now than they were in the 1980s. The importance of respecting authority..

Remote learning is even harder when English isn't students' first language. Schools told us their priorities for supporting them

Gary Bonar, Anne Keary, Tanya Davies, Yvette Slaughter

The COVID-19 pandemic has left large numbers of students, teachers and families grappling with the challenges of remote learning. Remote le..

What's normal, anyway? GPs should discourage women from unnecessary genital surgery

Magdalena Simonis

General practitioners have an important role to play in alleviating women’s anxiety about their genital appearance and can help stop the ri..