..., with their mission to provide “cultural capital” freely to all citizens. Design/methodology/approach This empirical study, based on a comparative case from Finland, included 10 interviews with librarians at two Finnish libraries, one using ACM and one not. The interviews were analysed via qualitative content...

... environments. Reijo Savolainen can be contacted at e‐mail: Reijo.Savolainen@uta.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 User studies Information retrieval Worldwide web Finland The present study can be located in the intersection of three issues: everyday life information seeking...

... as for practitioners like teachers and information professionals. Information Behaviour Students Personality Research Finland Our present information‐rich society demands increasingly more of our capacity to handle information, both in terms of quantity and quality. It is not enough to know how...

... and that query expansion based on semantic relationships can significantly improve retrieval performance on free‐text sources. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Newspaper libraries Text retrieval Finland CONSISTENCY OF TEXTUAL EXPRESSION IN NEWSPAPER ARTICLES: AN ARGUMENT FOR SEMANTICALLY BASED QUERY...