What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants
Journal Article
Salzano, R., Brazier, D., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2022)
What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 276-286. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.752
Public libraries offer important services for newcomer populations, including forced migrants. They help facilitate the integration of forced migrants into the host country, i...
The Social Impact of Digital Youth Work: What Are We Looking For?
Journal Article
Pawluczuk, A., Webster, G., Smith, C., & Hall, H. (2019)
The Social Impact of Digital Youth Work: What Are We Looking For?. Media and Communication, 7(2), 59-68. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v7i2.1907
Digital youth work is an emerging field of research and practice which seeks to investigate and support youth-centred digital literacy initiatives. Whilst digital youth work p...
Not what you know, nor who you know, but who you know already: Examining Online Information Sharing Behaviours in a Blogging Environment through the Lens of Social Exchange Theory
Journal Article
Hall, H., Widen, G., & Paterson, L. (2010)
Not what you know, nor who you know, but who you know already: Examining Online Information Sharing Behaviours in a Blogging Environment through the Lens of Social Exchange Theory. Libri, 60(2), 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1515/libr.2010.011
This paper focuses on the extent to which online information sharing practice is socially motivated. A key interest is how knowledge of the existing social connections between...
Blipfoto: a new return to the beginning of photography.
Presentation / Conference
Forrest, E. & Hall, H. (2015, June)
Blipfoto: a new return to the beginning of photography. Paper presented at International Visual Sociology Association Annual Conference 2015, Tinos, Greece
‘What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end, is to make a beginning . The end is where we start from” TS Eliot, Little Gidding If, on TS Eliot’s suggestio...
Social exchange for knowledge exchange
Conference Proceeding
Hall, H. (2000)
Social exchange for knowledge exchange. In Managing knowledge: conversations and critiques, University of Leicester Management Centre, 10-11 April 2001, 1-23
The factors that motivate people to codify and share knowledge for the benefit of others have
been identified as a priority area for individual companies (Smith & Farquhar, 20...
Online information sources: tools of business intelligence?
Journal Article
Hall, H. (1999)
Online information sources: tools of business intelligence?. Journal of Information Science. 26, 139-143. doi:10.1177/016555150002600303. ISSN 0165-5515
Organisations seek to use information intelligently, and to generate business intelligence for future profitable prospects. Although not regarded as business intelligence per ...
What happens next? Strategies for building and assessing the long-term impact of research projects
Presentation / Conference
Hall, H. (2016, May)
What happens next? Strategies for building and assessing the long-term impact of research projects. Presented at 8th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) 2016, London
Closing keynote paper.
Presentation slides can be viewed on slideshare - https://hazelhall.org/2016/05/27/strategies-for-building-and-assessing-the-long-term-impact-of-resear...
Library 2.0 and UK academic libraries: drivers and impacts
Journal Article
Shoniwa, P., & Hall, H. (2007)
Library 2.0 and UK academic libraries: drivers and impacts. New Review of Information Networking, 13(2), 69-79. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614570801899975
At a time that the term “Library 2.0” has attracted attention in the professional and academic press of library and information science, there appears to be a lack of consensu...
How do public libraries demonstrate their impact upon citizenship development in the UK? : results of a focus group methodology.
Presentation / Conference
Appleton, L., Hall, H., Duff, A. & Raeside, R. (2015, July)
How do public libraries demonstrate their impact upon citizenship development in the UK? : results of a focus group methodology. Paper presented at 11th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Management in Libraries and Information Services, Edinburgh
There is a general acceptance that public libraries contribute to ‘community’, and at least have the potential to have a very positive impact on civil society. (Varheim, 2007)...
Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online.
Presentation / Conference
Ryan, F., Cruickshank, P., Hall, H., & Lawson, A. (2015, June)
Assessing the available and accessible evidence: how personal reputations are determined and managed online. Paper presented at Information: interactions and impact (i3) 2015
This paper is concerned with how online information contributes to the determination of personal reputations. The term “personal reputation” in this context means the reputati...