Keeping Found Things Found™
Publications & Presentations
Publications & Presentations
- Jones, E., H. Bruce, et al. (2008). I Give Up! Five Factors that Contribute to the Abandonment of Information Management Strategies. 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2008). Columbus, OH.

- Civan, A., W. Jones, et al. (2008). Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?: The Devil Is in the Details. 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST 2008), Columbus, OH.[1]
- Jones, W. (2008). "The world is at my doorstep ... and the house is a mess: Putting our information in its place in a digital age.©" Invited presentation at the annual meeting of the Special Libraries Association (SLA), June 18, 2008.

- Jones, W., P. Klasnja, A. Civan, & M. Adcock (2008). The Personal Project Planner: Planning to Organize Personal Information. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008), Florence, Italy, ACM.

- Teevan, J., W. Jones, et al. (2008). 2008 Workshop on Personal Information Management (in collaboration with CHI 2008). PIM 2008, Florence, Italy.
- Jones, W. (2007). Personal Information for a World as We Want It to Be. INFORMS. Seattle, WA.
- Jones, W. (2007).
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management.
San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.

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Jones, W., & Teevan, J. (2007).
Personal Information Management.
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press.

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Jones, W., & Ross, B. (2007).
Human cognition and personal information management.
In F. T. Durso, R. S. Nickerson, R. W. Schvaneveldt,
S. T. Dumais, D. S. Lindsay, & M. T. H. Chi (eds.)
Handbook of Applied Cognition.
West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons.
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Jones, W. (2006).
Personal information management.
The Annual Review of Information Science
and Technology, 41.
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PIM 2006, Seattle, WA, August 10-11, 2006.
Organized by William Jones, Jacek Gwizdka and others
in association with
SIGIR 2006.
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Teevan, J., Jones, W., & Bederson, B. (eds.), (2006).
Communications of the ACM:
A special issue on personal information management,
49, 1.
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Jones, W., Bruce, H., Foxley, A., & Munat, C. (2006).
Planning personal projects and organizing personal information.
Paper presented at
ASIST 2006, Austin, TX.
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Jones, W., Bruce, H., & Foxley, A. (2006).
Project contexts to situate personal information.
Paper presented at
SIGIR 2006, Seattle, WA.
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Video Demonstration of the Universal Labeler.
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Jones, W., Bruce, H., Foxley, A., & Munat, C.F. (2005).
The Universal Labeler:
Plan the project and let your information follow.
In the Proceedings of
ASIST ’05. November, 2005.
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The Challenge of Personal Information Management.
Panel organized by William Jones and Mary Czerwinski for
Interact05. September, 2005.
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Jones, W., Phuwanartnurak, A. J., Gill, R., & Bruce, H. (2005).
Don’t take my folders away!
Organizing personal information to get things done.
Presented at the annual
CHI conference, Portland, OR. April, 2005.
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An NSF-Sponsored Invitational Workshop on
Personal Information Management, Seattle, WA.
Organized by William Jones and Harry Bruce. January 27-29, 2005.
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Why can’t Johnny file?
And what can we do to help?
Panel at the annual
ASIST meeting,
Providence, RI,
organized and moderated by William Jones. November, 2004.
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Bruce, H., Jones, W., Dumais, S. (2004).
Information behaviour that keeps found things found.
Information Research, 10, 1.
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Bruce, H., Jones, W., Dumais, S. (2004).
Keeping and re-finding information on the Web:
What do people do and what do they need?
In ASIST 2004:
Proceedings of the 67th ASIST annual meeting.
Chicago, IL: Information Today, Inc.
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Jones, W. (2004).
Finders, keepers? The present and future perfect
in support of personal information management.
First Monday, 9, 3.
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Jones, W., Maier, D. (2003).
Personal Information Management Group Report.
From the NSF IDM 2003 Workshop.
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Jones, W., Bruce, H., Dumais, S. (2003).
How do people get back to information on the Web?
How can they do it better?
In INTERACT 2003:
Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC13
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
Zurich, Switzerland, September 1-5, 2003.
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& presentation slides
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Jones, W., Dumais, S., & Bruce, H. (2002).
Once found, what then? A study of “keeping”
behaviors in personal use of Web information.
In E. G. Toms (ed.)
ASIST 2002: Proceedings of the 65th ASIST
Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, November 18-21, 2002,
p. 391-402.
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& presentation slides
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Jones, W., Bruce, H., & Dumais, S. (2001).
Keeping found things found on the Web.
In H. Paques, L. Liu, & D. Grossman (eds.)
CIKM'01: Proceedings of the 2001 ACM CIKM
10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge
Management, Atlanta, GA, November 5-10, 2001,
(ACM SIGIR & SIGMIS).
New York: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 119-134.
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