Purpose Serendipitous information discovery has become a unique and important approach
to discovering and obtaining information, which has aroused a growing interest for …

This paper aims to inform design strategies for smart space technology to enhance libraries
as environments for coworking and informal social learning. The focus is on understanding …

Dealing with information is one of the vital skills in the 21st century. It takes a fair degree of
information savvy to create, represent and supply information as well as to search for and …

Serendipity is not an easy word to define. Its meaning has been stretched to apply to
experiences ranging from the mundane to the exceptional. Serendipity, however, is …

Purpose Serendipity is an interesting phenomenon to study in information science as it plays
a fundamental–but perhaps underestimated–role in how we discover, explore, and learn in …

Purpose Websites, search engines, recommender systems, artificial intelligence and digital
libraries have the potential to support serendipity for unexpected interaction with information …

Under what conditions is serendipity most likely to occur? How much is serendipity
influenced by what a person brings to the process, and how much by the environment in …

This article examines how search engines and social‐networking sites enable and constrain
the identity‐related information practices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of serendipity and approaches
to its study particularly in relation to information studies. Design/methodology/approach–The …

Many important findings and discoveries in science and everyday life are the result of
serendipity, that is, the unanticipated occurrence of happy events such as the finding of …