Information and Telecommunications Needs Research

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‘The role of information in successful aging: The case for a research focus on the oldest old.’

Library and Information Science Research, Vol. 28, No.1, Spring 2006, Pages 49-63.

‘Wanting it now’: Baby boomers and the public library of the future’.

The Australian Library Journal.   Vol. 55, No.1, Feb, pp. 54-72.

‘When I’m 64: The public library after the retirement of the baby boomers’.

In Proceedings of Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) Conference, held at the National Library of Australia, 17-18 September 2005.  Wagga Wagga: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.  In press.

'Using telecommunications to meet the needs of older people'.

Powerpoint presentation to the Nutrition and Wellness Project, Cramer
Reed Center for Successful Aging, Wichita, Kansas, USA.

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'Enabling older people with disabilities to connect with others across the world: An Australian perspective'.

Paper presented at the 17th World Congress of the International Associate of Gerontology, Global Aging: Working Together in a Changing World. Vancouver Convention Centre, July 1 - 6, 2001.

Williamson, K.

'Assessing the information and library needs of older people: a discussion of methods and techniques'.

In Pathways to Knowledge. Proceedings of the Australian Library and Information Association Biennial Conference. Canberra, ALIA, 1999, pp. 701-706.

Williamson, K

'Discovered by chance: The role of incidental information acquisition in an ecological model of information use'.

Library & Information Science Research Vol. 20, No. 1, pp.23-40.

Williamson, K.

'The information needs and information-seeking behaviour of older adults: an Australian study'.

In Vakkari, P., Reijo, S. & Dervin, B. (eds). Information Seeking in Context. Proceedings of an international conference on research in information needs, seeking and use in different contexts. Tampere, Finland, 1996. London/Los Angeles: Taylor Graham, 1997, pp. 337-350.

‘Found by chance: the role of incidental information acquisition in an ecological model of information seeking’.

Paper presented by K. Williamson at Information Symposium at CIRCIT, 27 February 1997. For more information, see Information Symposium Internet site: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~sympose

Williamson, K.

‘Older adults: Information, communications and telecommunications’.

PhD thesis. Melbourne: Dept of Social Sciences, RMIT, 1995.
A copy of the thesis is available from the Department, the RMIT Library or the author.
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Williamson, K.

‘Drinks on the phone at five o'clock: Telecommunications and the information and communication needs of older adults’.

RMIT, Melbourne: TNRG.

Williamson, K.

‘I can tell you a remedy for migraines. Telecommunications and the information and communications needs of older adults'.

Telcommunications Needs Research Group, RMIT.
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Williamson, K.

'Older adults: Information, communication and telecommunications'.

Presented at the Australian Communication Association National Conference. Victoria University of Technology, 7-9 July.

Williamson, K., Balnaves, M., & Caputi, P.

'Information, communication and telecommunications: A pilot study of the behaviour of citizens'.

Prometheus. Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 311-322.

Williamson, K.

'The information needs of the aged'.

In Proceedings of the Fifth National Community Information Conference. State Library of NSW, 14-26 October, pp. 78-87.