After arriving from Lund last evening I have been participating in the Creating Knowledge V conference in Åbo. There has been several interesting presentations resonating closely with my ongoing projects. Annemaree Lloyd talked about her studies on information practices in workplace contexts, and highlighted several interesting aspects, which I have been looking at while studying information work in different contexts.
My own presentation was about information service 2.0 (slides, photo) with a special focus on the needs of library participants or the social web people who are used to participate in different information rich services on the web.
Sheila Webber (slides) whom I met outside Second Life first time today told about her experiences in teaching using inquiry based learning and some interesting pilot study results in information behaviour in Second Life.
Later today Kim Holmberg told about his survey on libraries present in Facebook, which highlighted many interesting aspects of why and how libraries and librarians engage in social web environment.
