... Sense‐making Critical realism Ontology Information‐seeking behaviour Abduction Meaning‐making Case studies Philosophical concepts Frances is faced with conflicting information with which she must deal. Each weekend Frances buys a copy of the Australian Catholic Weekly (ACW). It is part...

..., outlines consequences of current mainstream work, and provides concept for developing late-modern classification theory and practice. Keywords: Classification, Epistemology, Late-modernity,Modernity, Philosophical concepts www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00220411111145061 This article...

... and practice. Jens‐Erik Mai can be contacted at: je.mai@utoronto.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Classification Philosophical concepts Epistemology Modernity Late‐modernity Classification is an ancient but yet very modern exercise. Bowker and Star (1999 , p. 1) noted...

...; and 2. it has searched for general laws and principles common to all classification systems. Classification Philosophical concepts Epistemology Trust Authority Jorge Luis Borges wonders in his essay “The analytic language of John Wilkins” why we have attempted to describe the world...

... 2010 Information literacy Information management Philosophical concepts In the twenty‐first century information literacy should be seen as a core and critical information practice, that builds people's capacity to negotiate increasingly complex social and technological environments...

..., the areas of application of the concepts of documents and documentation. Bernd Frohmann can be contacted at: frohmann@uwo.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Document management Information science Philosophical concepts There are three important philosophical motivations...