News & Updates
*Some Recent Publications*
Future directions for information programs: data from students at six Canadian schools.
The Goldilocks effect: task-centred assessments of e-government information.
Genre searching: a pragmatic approach to information retrieval.
Information interaction in 140 characters or less: genres on Twitter.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Cherry, J.M., Duff, W.M., Singh, N., & Freund, L. (2011) Student perceptions of their master’s program in information studies and the information professions: A longitudinal study. Library & Information Science Research, 33(2), 120-131.
Zhang, L, Kopak, R., Freund, L. & Rasmussen, E. (2011) Making functional units functional: the role of rhetorical structure in use of scholarly journal articles. International Journal of Information Management. 31(1), 21-29. (In ScienceDirect)
Freund, L. (2010). Genre searching: a pragmatic approach to information retrieval in The Janus Faced Scholar, a Festschrift in Honour of Peter Ingwersen. Special volume of the e-zine of the International Sociery for Scientometrics and Informetrics, 6, 35-42. (Available online)
Freund, L. (2008) Situating relevance through task-genre relationships. Bulletin for the American Society for Information Science and Technoloy, 34 (5), 23-26. (PDF online)
Freund, L. & Ringlstetter, C. (2008) Bringing genre into focus: Introduction to the special section on genre. Bulletin for the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 34 (5), 15-16. (PDF online).
Book Chapters
Kopak, R., Freund, L. & O’Brien, H.L. (2010) Digital Information Interaction as Semantic Navigation in Innovations in IR: Perspectives for Theory and Practice, eds. Allen Foster and Pauline Rafferty. Facet Publishing. (Purchase the Book)
Conference Papers
Freund, L. & Berzowska, J. (2010). The Goldilocks effect: task-centred assessments of e-government information. 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Pittsburgh, PA. (Available online)
Zhang, L., Kopak, R., Freund, L & Rasmussen, E. (2010) A taxonomy of functional units for information use of scholarly journal articles. 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Pittsburgh, PA. (Available online)
Westman, S. & Freund, L. (2010) Information interaction in 140 characters or less: genres on Twitter. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), New Brunswick, NJ, August 18-22, 2010 . (Available online)
Kopak, R., Freund, L. & O'Brien, H.L. (2010) Supporting semantic navigation. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), New Brunswick, NJ, August 18-22, 2010 .
Freund, L. & Butterworth, R. (2008) Tagging for Use: an analysis of use-centred resource description. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), London , UK , October 2008.
Toms, G., O'Brien, H., Mackenzie, T., Jordan, C., Freund, L., Toze, S., Dawe, E. & MacNutt, A. (2008) Task effects on interactive search: the query factor. Proceedings of the Initiative for XML Retrieval (INEX) Workshop 2007.
Freund, L., Clarke, C.L.A. & Toms, E.G. (2006) Genre classification for IR in the workplace. Information Interaction in Context (IIiX), Copenhagen , Denmark , October 2006.
Freund, L., Toms, E.G. & Clarke, C.L.A. (2005) Modeling task-genre relationships for IR in the workplace. Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference , Salvador , Brazil .
Freund, L., Toms, E.G. & Waterhouse, J.(2005) Modeling the information behaviour of software engineers using a work - task framework. 68 th Annual Meeting of ASIS&T, Charlotte , NC .
Workshop Papers
Wildemuth, B.M. & Freund, L. (2009) Search tasks and their role in studies of search behaviors. Paper presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Human Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, Washington D.C., October 23, 2009.
Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2007) Revisiting informativeness as a process measure for information interaction. Web Information Seeking and Interaction Workshop at the 30 th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam , Netherlands . PDF File
Freund, L. & Toms, E.G. (2005). Using contextual factors to match intent . Paper presented at the Information R et rieval in Context Workshop at the 28 th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference , Salvador , Brazil . PDF File
Conference Presentations
Cavanagh, M. & Freund, L. (2010). No Longer Just an Interview: Reference as a Relationship. Ontario Library Association Conference, Toronto, ON, February 2010.
Freund, L. (2009) Exploiting task-document relations in support of information retrieval in the workplace. Student Award Winning Papers Panel, American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. November, 2009.
Gwizdka, J., Belkin, N., Dumais, S., Freund, L., Gauch, S. (2009). Multiple facets of personalization. Panel presentation, American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. November, 2009.
Anderson, T.D., Byström, K, Freund, L., Limberg, L., Meyers, E.M. & Toms, E.G. (2009) Diverse approaches to “tasks” in information science: conceptual and methodological insights. Panel presentation, American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C. November, 2009.
Cavanagh, M. & Freund, L. (2009). No longer just an interview - the practice of reference and educating future practitioners. BC Library Conference, Burnaby, BC, April 2009.
Cherry, J., Duff, W. & Freund (2009) Learning from our students: assessing student perceptions of information studies programs and the information professions. Presented at the Association for Library and Information Science Education Meeting, Denver, CO, January 2009.
Freund, L. (2009) Genre classification for e-government management and access: one taxonomy or two?, Automated Document Genre Classification Workshop – Supporting Digital Curation, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Extraction, Wednesday September 9, 2009, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK.
Freund, L. & Nilsen, C. (2008) Assessing a genre-based approach to online government information. Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science, Vancouver , B.C., June 2008.
Freund, L. (2006) Issues in task-based research in the workplace , presentation at the Norslis Workshop on Task-Based Research in Educational and Work settings, Borås, Sweden , October 15-18, 2006 .
Posters
Alekson, T, Bezanson, M., Lai, A., Li, X., Cho, A., Freund, L., Neame, S. & Rasmussen, E. (2009) Digital media internships: LIS education 2.0. (poster paper) Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, B.C..
Toms, E.G and Freund L. (2009) Predicting stopping behaviour: a preliminary analysis. Poster session of the 32th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, Boston, MA. July, 2009.
Cherry, J., Duff, W., Singh, N. & Freund, L. (2008) One degree, three streams: three populations? Poster session of the Annual Me et ing of the American Soci et y for Information Science and Technology , Columbus , OH .
Toms, E., Toze, S., O'Brien, H. Freund, L. & Jordan, C. (2008) Fishing in query pools for task representations. Poster session of the Annual Meet ing of the American Soci et y for Information Science and Technology , Columbus , OH .
Cherry, J., Duff, W. & Freund, L.(2007). Usability beyond the interface: designing a portal for text analysis. Poster session of the 70 th Annual Me et ing of the American Soci et y for Information Science and Technology, Milwaukee , Wisconsin .
Yeung, P.C.K., Freund, L. & Clarke, C.L.A. (2007) X-Site: a workplace search tool for software engineers. System demo presented at the 30 th International ACM SIGIR Conference, Amsterdam , Netherlands . PDF File
Freund, L. (2006) Simple remote user studies . Poster session of the HCI-SIG Workshop at the 69 th Annual Meeting of the American Soci et y for Information Science and Technology , Austin , Texas .
Freund, L., Toms, E.G. (2006) Enterprise search behaviour of software engineers . Poster session of the 29 th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference , Seattle , Washington .