Books

Fisher, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Naumer, C. M. (In Progress). Case studies for outcomes-based evaluation: Stretching exercises for students and professionals using The Outcomes Toolkit Approach. Chicago: American Library Association.

Fisher, K E., Erdelez, S., & McKechnie, E. F. (Eds.). (Forthcoming). Theories of information behavior. Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Durrance, J. C., & Fisher, K. E. (Forthcoming, 2005). How libraries and librarians help: A guide to identifying user-centered outcomes. Chicago: American Library Association.

Durrance, J. C., & Pettigrew, K. E. (2002). Online community information: Creating a nexus at your library. Chicago: American Library Association.

Pettigrew, K. E. (1998). The role of community health nurses in providing information and referral to the elderly: A study based on social network theory. Unpublished PhD Dissertation. London, ON: The University of Western Ontario. (ISBN: 0 612 32323 4; In Volume 59/10 A of Dissertation Abstracts International, page 3683.)

Refereed Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Turner, T., Fisher, K. E., & Kim, J. (Under Review). The impact of social types within information communities: Findings from technical newsgroups. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal.

Fisher, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Hinton, M. B. (In Press). Use of need-based services by immigrants in Queens, NY: A context-based, outcome evaluation approach. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology.

Fisher, K. E., & Durrance, J. C. (In press; June 2003). Information communities. In K. Christen & D. Levinson (Eds.), The encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference.

Durrance, J. C., & Fisher, K. E. (2003). Determining How Libraries and Librarians Help. Library Trends, 51.4, 305-334.

Donat, J., & Pettigrew, K. E. (2002). The final context: Information behavior surrounding the dying patient. New Review of Information Behavior Research, 3, 175-186.

Pettigrew, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Unruh, K. T. (2002). Facilitating community information-seeking using the Internet: Findings from three public library-community network systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 53.11, 894-903.

Durrance, J. C., & Fisher-Pettigrew, K. E. (2002). Toward developing measures of the impact of library and information services. Reference and User Services Quarterly, 42.1, 43-53.

McKechnie, L. M., & Pettigrew, K. E. (2002). Surveying the use of theory in library and information science research: A disciplinary perspective. Library Trends, 50.3, 406-417.

Pettigrew, K. E., Fidel, R., & Bruce, H. (2001). Conceptual frameworks in information behavior. Annual Review of Information Science & Technology, Vol., 35 (pp. 43-78). M. E. Williams (Ed). Medford, NJ: ASIST and Information Today.

Pettigrew, K. E., & McKechnie, L. M. (2001). The use of theory in information science research. Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, 52.1, 62-73.

McKechnie, L. (E.F.), Pettigrew, K., & Joyce, S. (2000). The origins and contextual use of theory in human information behavior research. The New Review of Information Behaviour Research: Studies of Information Seeking in Context, 2, 47-63.

Durrance, J. C., & Pettigrew, K. E. (2001). How libraries and librarians help: Toward context-centered methods for evaluating public library networked community information initiatives.
First Monday: Peer Reviewed Journal on the Internet

Pettigrew, K. E., & Durrance, J. C. (2001). (Eds). KALIPER: Introduction and overview of results. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 42.1, 170-180.

Pettigrew, K. E. (2000). Lay information provision in community settings: How community health nurses disseminate human services information to the elderly. Library Quarterly, 70.1, 47-85.

Pettigrew, K. E. (1999). Waiting for chiropody: Contextual results from an ethnographic study of the information behavior among attendees at community clinics. Information Processing & Management, 35.6, 801-817.

Baker, L. M., & Pettigrew, K. E. (1999). Theories for practitioners: Two frameworks for studying consumer health information-seeking behavior. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 87.4, 444 50.

Pettigrew, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Vakkari, P. (1999). Approaches to studying public library Internet initiatives: A review of the literature and overview of a current study. Library & Information Science Research, 21.3, 327-360.

Pettigrew, K. E. (1996). Nurses' perceptions of their needs for community information: Results of an exploratory study in southwestern Ontario. Journal of Education for Library & Information Science, 37.4, 351-360.

Pettigrew, K. E., & Wilkinson, M. A. (1996). Control of community information: An analysis of roles. Library Quarterly, 66.4, 373-407.

Leckie, G. J., Pettigrew, K. E., & Sylvain, C. (1996). Modelling the information seeking of professionals: A general model derived from research on engineers, health care professionals, and lawyers. Library Quarterly, 66.2, 161-193.

Pettigrew, K. E., & Nicholls, P. T. (1994). Publication patterns of LIS faculty from 1982- 1992: Effects of doctoral programs. Library & Information Science Research, 16, 139-156.

Pettigrew, K. E., & Wilkinson, M. A. (1994). Controlling the quality of community information: An analysis of the effects on dissemination of the differences between I&R agencies and community networks. Information & Referral, 16, 185-194.

Bell, C. Dicker [Pettigrew], K., & Watson, A. M. (1991). Foreign and domestic periodicals price index for Canada: The first survey. Canadian Library Journal, 48.4, 255-261.

Invited Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Durrance, J. C., Pettigrew, K.E., Jourdan, M., & Scheuerer, K. (2001). Libraries and civil society. In N. Kranich (Ed.), Libraries: The cornerstone of democracy. (pp. 49-59). Chicago: ALA.

Pettigrew, K. E., & Durrance, J. C. (2000). KALIPER: Final results. 2000 Bowker Annual: Library and Book Trade Almanac (45th ed). D. Bogart (Ed.). New Providence, NJ: R. R. Bowker.

Durrance, J. C., & Pettigrew, K. E. (Feb. 2000). Community information: The technological touch. Library Journal, 125.2, 44-46. (Feature cover article).

Durrance, J. C., & Pettigrew, K. E. (1999). KALIPER: A look at library and information science education at the turn of a new century. 1999 Bowker Annual: Library and Book Trade Almanac (44th ed). (pp. 266-281). D. Bogart (Ed.). New Providence, NJ: R. R. Bowker.

Refereed Conference Papers

Fisher, K. E., Durrance, J. C., & Unruh, K. T. (2003). Information communities: Characteristics gleaned from studies of three online networks. In R. J. Todd (Ed.), Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (pp. 299-305). Medford, NJ: Information Today.

Unruh, K. T., Pettigrew, K. E., & Durrance, J. C. (2002). Towards effective evaluation of digital community information systems. In E. G. Toms (Ed.), Proceedings of the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (pp. 250-259). Philadelphia, PA. Nov. 18-21, 2002.

Unruh , K. T., Pettigrew, K. E., & Durrance, J. C. (2002) Evaluation of digital community information systems. In: G. Marchionini & W. Hersh (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital libraries (pp. 240-241), Portland, OR. July 2002. New York: ACM.

Durrance, J. C., Pettigrew, K. E., & Unruh, K. T. (2002). Barriers that must be overcome for effective use of digital community information: Preliminary patterns. Shaping the Network Society: Patterns for Participation, Action and Change. DIAC-02 Symposium. Seattle, WA. May 16-19, 2002.

Pettigrew, K. E., & Durrance, J. C. (2001). Public use of digital community information systems: Findings from a recent study with implications for system design. In Proceedings of the First ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (pp. 136-143). Roanoke, VI. June 24-28, 2001. New York: ACM.

Pettigrew, K. E., & Durrance, J. C. (2000). Community building using the 'Net: Perceptions of organizers, information providers and Internet users. Internet Research 1.0: The State of the Interdiscipline, First Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, Sept. 14 17, 2000.

Pettigrew, K. E. (1999). Agents of information: The role of community health nurses in linking the elderly with local resources by providing human services information. In T. D. Wilson & D. K. Allen (Eds.), Exploring the Contexts of Information Behaviour: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts (Aug. 13-15, 1998, Sheffield, UK). (pp. 257-276). London: Graham Taylor.

McKechnie, L., & Pettigrew, K. E. (1998). Theories for the new millennium: The deployment of theory in LIS research. In E. Toms (Ed.), Information Science at the Dawn of the Millennium: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (June 3-5, 1998, Ottawa, ON) (pp. 125-142). Toronto: CAIS.

Pettigrew, K. E. (1997). Frameworks for studying information behavior: A unit theory specification of Granovetter's strength of weak ties. In B. Frohmann (Ed.), Communication and Information in Context: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (June 8-10, 1997, St. John's, NF) (pp. 131-154). Toronto: CAIS.

Leckie, G. J., & Pettigrew, K. E. (1997). A general model of the information seeking of professionals: Role theory through the back door? In P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen, & B. Dervin (Ed.), Information Seeking in Context: Proceedings of an International Conference on Research in Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts (Aug 14-16, 1996, Tampere, Finland) (pp. 99-110). London: Graham Taylor.