Information Context: Nature, Impact, and Role: 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Sciences, CoLIS 2005, Glasgow,

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science, CoLIS 2005, held in Glasgow, UK in June 2005.

The 19 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on representing context, context relevance and information seeking, context and information, contextualized information seeking, agendas for context, and context and documents.