... Document analysis Document experience Document handling Document systems Properties of documentary practice Life is as infinitely great and profound as the immensity of the stars above us. One can only look at it through the narrow keyhole of one’s own personal experience. But through it one...

... of an oral document. Additionally, three new properties of documentary practice are identified. Research limitations/implications The method utilized limits the research results to identifying one type of oral document identified within a small sample of face‐to‐face oral data gathered from a single kind...

..., which shares some characteristics with oral documents. Deborah Turner can be contacted at: turned@drexel.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Oral documents Face‐to‐face communication Information behaviour Properties of documentary practice Documents Document management...