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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to many colleagues, whose insights and exchanges have contributed over the years to our thinking about serendipity, including Lennart Björneborn, Samantha Copeland, Sanda Erdelez, Jannica Heinström, Stephann Makri, Kim Martin, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Borchuluun Yadamsuren. A SSHRC Aid to Workshops and Conferences Program grant enabled SCORE: Serendipity, Chance and Opportunity in Information Discovery, a workshop hosted in Montreal in 2012, to bring together a group of researchers to unpeel the concept of serendipity in digital information environments.

We also acknowledge financial support for the research that informed much of the thinking behind this volume. Toms’ initial research on browsing in digital user environments (which serendipitously introduced her research to serendipity) was funded by a NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) grant to her Ph.D. supervisor, Professor Jean Tague-Sutcliffe, University of Western Ontario (now Western University). Their individual and joint research, including McCay-Peet’s Ph.D. work, was partially funded by a SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Research Grant, on Serendipity in Knowledge Work to Toms; and a SSHRC Doctoral Scholarship to McCay-Peet. Finally, we acknowledge the support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation that funded the research infrastructure that enabled multiple research projects, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who hosted the research projects.