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The Office: Integrating Perspectives Across Information Science, Jenna Hartel, Soo Young Rieh, Barbara Kwasnik, William Jones

Jenna Hartel

This panel focuses on an information-rich yet under-examined space: the office. Offices are complex crossroads of information structures, information systems, and information seeking behaviors, all shaped by a particular socio-historical context. The panel brings together experts from major specialties of information science (IS) who have conducted research into offices or similar settings. Our goals are threefold: 1.) To introduce “the office” as a useful concept for information research 2.) To examine the office from five different perspectives in the field of IS, namely: history, metatheory, information seeking behavior, classification, and information systems. 3.) To promote cross-specialty conversations among panelists and …