Abstract:In the modern university environment, where some people worry that our focus on innovation and technology comes at the expense of information and education, it is important that we encourage a love of learning by recognizing that the pursuit of information is a joyful endeavor. Drawing on the author's personal experiences with PLATO lessons at the University of Illinois, this paper reminds us that while innovation is exciting, information is full of joy. Library and information science researchers and practitioners have a unique opportunity to shape the future of innovation in education by emphasizing the joy of information in all our activities.
{"title":"PLATO Lessons: Rediscovering the Joy of Information in an Innovation Age","authors":"P. Marty","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the modern university environment, where some people worry that our focus on innovation and technology comes at the expense of information and education, it is important that we encourage a love of learning by recognizing that the pursuit of information is a joyful endeavor. Drawing on the author's personal experiences with PLATO lessons at the University of Illinois, this paper reminds us that while innovation is exciting, information is full of joy. Library and information science researchers and practitioners have a unique opportunity to shape the future of innovation in education by emphasizing the joy of information in all our activities.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42204341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Cataloging and classification work is about more than simply information retrieval. There is an affective dimension, one rooted in the power and pleasure of system building. Recording catalogers as they work reveals these elements in the act of bibliographic description. We discover that cataloging is not the rote, mechanical completion of structured field entries but is instead a profoundly human exercise, one of intellectual exploration, the application of deep expertise and skill, and the joy of both fitting an item into an existing system and altering that system in order to better reflect the diversity of knowledge. Understanding the richly human process of cataloging and classification work can help make the case for continued support for these positions in the face of market pressures to automate and outsource bibliographic labor. Beyond the practical, articulating the pleasures that come with this work can help surface the joy that can sometimes get lost in the mundane details of the everyday.
{"title":"Pleasure and the Practice of Classification","authors":"Amanda Belantara, Emily Drabinski","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Cataloging and classification work is about more than simply information retrieval. There is an affective dimension, one rooted in the power and pleasure of system building. Recording catalogers as they work reveals these elements in the act of bibliographic description. We discover that cataloging is not the rote, mechanical completion of structured field entries but is instead a profoundly human exercise, one of intellectual exploration, the application of deep expertise and skill, and the joy of both fitting an item into an existing system and altering that system in order to better reflect the diversity of knowledge. Understanding the richly human process of cataloging and classification work can help make the case for continued support for these positions in the face of market pressures to automate and outsource bibliographic labor. Beyond the practical, articulating the pleasures that come with this work can help surface the joy that can sometimes get lost in the mundane details of the everyday.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43499211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This afterword reflects on the manifestations of joy of information from the perspective of everyday information behavior research. The point of departure is distinction between pleasurable and profound—the main constituents of the construct of "higher things in life" proposed by Kari and Hartel in 2007. The study also makes use of the related distinction of hedonic versus eudaimonic happiness. Illustrative examples of studies on information seeking and sharing in the context of leisure activities are used to show how joy of information as a constituent of the pursuance of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness has been approached in these investigations. It is suggested that the research frontier on higher things in life could be advanced further by examining the relationships between entertainment and information and the features of information experience because the aspects pleasurable and profound are central to these concepts.
{"title":"Afterword: Manifestations of Joy of Information in Everyday Information Behavior Research","authors":"Reijo Savolainen","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This afterword reflects on the manifestations of joy of information from the perspective of everyday information behavior research. The point of departure is distinction between pleasurable and profound—the main constituents of the construct of \"higher things in life\" proposed by Kari and Hartel in 2007. The study also makes use of the related distinction of hedonic versus eudaimonic happiness. Illustrative examples of studies on information seeking and sharing in the context of leisure activities are used to show how joy of information as a constituent of the pursuance of hedonic and eudaimonic happiness has been approached in these investigations. It is suggested that the research frontier on higher things in life could be advanced further by examining the relationships between entertainment and information and the features of information experience because the aspects pleasurable and profound are central to these concepts.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42508487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Do museums spark joy in people? Can they? Should they? Drawing from Positive Museology—an approach that aims to enable human flourishing in museal contexts—this article offers specific ways to integrate these intentions into the museum experience. In particular, it focuses on one notion from the positive disciplines, positive contagion, and the role of positive emotions—especially joy—in one corner of the museum: exhibition communication. Using Barbara Fredrickson's ten positive emotions and related positivity toolkit as a foundation, I offer seven ways to inspire joy and positivity (and therefore the potential for positive contagion) in museum work and, in particular, the exhibition medium. The seven ways are treated as openings, pointing toward research, case examples, and applied practice to gather and solidify the value of a positive approach. The seven ways are not completely unique to museums—one kind of information institution—and can be applied in other allied organizations as well, such as libraries, archives, schools, and more.
{"title":"Infecting Museums with Joy: Seven Ways","authors":"K. Latham","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Do museums spark joy in people? Can they? Should they? Drawing from Positive Museology—an approach that aims to enable human flourishing in museal contexts—this article offers specific ways to integrate these intentions into the museum experience. In particular, it focuses on one notion from the positive disciplines, positive contagion, and the role of positive emotions—especially joy—in one corner of the museum: exhibition communication. Using Barbara Fredrickson's ten positive emotions and related positivity toolkit as a foundation, I offer seven ways to inspire joy and positivity (and therefore the potential for positive contagion) in museum work and, in particular, the exhibition medium. The seven ways are treated as openings, pointing toward research, case examples, and applied practice to gather and solidify the value of a positive approach. The seven ways are not completely unique to museums—one kind of information institution—and can be applied in other allied organizations as well, such as libraries, archives, schools, and more.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41391425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Local music collecting in cultural heritage organizations is a rich practice for the study of joy and information. This article examines the joyful and personally meaningful experiences of local music collectors, as drawn from interviews with twenty-two individuals at eighteen cultural heritage organizations conducted from 2018 to 2020. Collectors describe their work with local music collections to be personally meaningful, positive, and even joyful. For many, the positive affective experiences found through the blending of personal interests and professional projects is a key factor in their workplace well-being, motivation, and personal fulfillment. Collectors apply a community-engaged approach to their professional practice, finding self-fulfillment through their work and connection to the local music community. These findings are discussed within the context of the serious leisure perspective, and the pleasurable and the profound in library and information science research.
{"title":"Local Music Collectors in Cultural Heritage Organizations: Finding Joy through Occupational Devotion","authors":"Sean Luyk, Carolyn Doi","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Local music collecting in cultural heritage organizations is a rich practice for the study of joy and information. This article examines the joyful and personally meaningful experiences of local music collectors, as drawn from interviews with twenty-two individuals at eighteen cultural heritage organizations conducted from 2018 to 2020. Collectors describe their work with local music collections to be personally meaningful, positive, and even joyful. For many, the positive affective experiences found through the blending of personal interests and professional projects is a key factor in their workplace well-being, motivation, and personal fulfillment. Collectors apply a community-engaged approach to their professional practice, finding self-fulfillment through their work and connection to the local music community. These findings are discussed within the context of the serious leisure perspective, and the pleasurable and the profound in library and information science research.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48092806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In response to the invitation, in the announcement of this special issue, to explore the "joy of information," this article investigates the information-intensive work called scholarship. Drawing upon the Greek philosophical understanding of contemplation as a journey of self-transformation and transcendence, it suggests that contemplative scholarship be understood as such a journey. From this perspective, the process of scholarship is as important as the product: first, because to pursue one's scholarship is not just to investigate one's subject matter, but to investigate oneself in relation to that subject matter, and to be transformed in the process; and second, because the process of deep immersion in one's subject matter can at times allow one not just to acquire knowledge but to encounter mystery, and to enter into states of wonder, awe, and joy.
{"title":"The Joy of Contemplative Scholarship","authors":"D. Levy","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In response to the invitation, in the announcement of this special issue, to explore the \"joy of information,\" this article investigates the information-intensive work called scholarship. Drawing upon the Greek philosophical understanding of contemplation as a journey of self-transformation and transcendence, it suggests that contemplative scholarship be understood as such a journey. From this perspective, the process of scholarship is as important as the product: first, because to pursue one's scholarship is not just to investigate one's subject matter, but to investigate oneself in relation to that subject matter, and to be transformed in the process; and second, because the process of deep immersion in one's subject matter can at times allow one not just to acquire knowledge but to encounter mystery, and to enter into states of wonder, awe, and joy.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41748210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article presents a firsthand account of positive affective experiences of Aftercare practitioners working with out-of-home-care (OOHC) records and adults formerly in the historical care of Barnardos Australia. The latter is an organization offering OOHC services for children since 1921, as an overseas trading arm of Dr. Barnardo's Homes in England, and since 1995 as an independent Australian Company Limited by Guarantee. It describes an individual example of providing access to records in a context typically considered not particularly joyful. The authors explore various information-seeking and -sharing behaviors and emotional patterns observed in Aftercare practice. They reveal the discrepancies between their observations and the current discourse around negative affect and secondary trauma, relying on previous scholarly considerations to theorize an explanation of what they feel. Concepts such as lower things, the pleasure of information seeking, and happy information sharing as well as higher things, positive empathy, and the emotional response in a context of caregiving are touched on, sketching a less traumatized picture of the profession. The possibility of vicarious catharsis and an activist positivity of community-based information work is explored in what may become a first tentative step toward acknowledging a caring—hence joyful—perspective of OOHC records practice.
{"title":"Aftercare, Not an Afterthought: Providing Access to Records to Adults Formerly in Care","authors":"Camille Moret, Abigail M. Wallace","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article presents a firsthand account of positive affective experiences of Aftercare practitioners working with out-of-home-care (OOHC) records and adults formerly in the historical care of Barnardos Australia. The latter is an organization offering OOHC services for children since 1921, as an overseas trading arm of Dr. Barnardo's Homes in England, and since 1995 as an independent Australian Company Limited by Guarantee. It describes an individual example of providing access to records in a context typically considered not particularly joyful. The authors explore various information-seeking and -sharing behaviors and emotional patterns observed in Aftercare practice. They reveal the discrepancies between their observations and the current discourse around negative affect and secondary trauma, relying on previous scholarly considerations to theorize an explanation of what they feel. Concepts such as lower things, the pleasure of information seeking, and happy information sharing as well as higher things, positive empathy, and the emotional response in a context of caregiving are touched on, sketching a less traumatized picture of the profession. The possibility of vicarious catharsis and an activist positivity of community-based information work is explored in what may become a first tentative step toward acknowledging a caring—hence joyful—perspective of OOHC records practice.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43226029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Library and information studies (LIS) has yet to see an exploration of the workings of love, as a force that both explicitly and implicitly underpins practices and rhetoric within our discipline. Understanding the "force" that is love requires analysis of social, and collective, relations. This paper draws on selected literature in order to present such an exploration for the first time. As this paper illustrates, love provides a distinctive, feminist lens onto structures and power dynamics. It can illuminate, and create opportunities to address, divergent challenges within LIS and the world at large.
{"title":"Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies","authors":"Mary Greenshields, Sarah Polkinghorne","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Library and information studies (LIS) has yet to see an exploration of the workings of love, as a force that both explicitly and implicitly underpins practices and rhetoric within our discipline. Understanding the \"force\" that is love requires analysis of social, and collective, relations. This paper draws on selected literature in order to present such an exploration for the first time. As this paper illustrates, love provides a distinctive, feminist lens onto structures and power dynamics. It can illuminate, and create opportunities to address, divergent challenges within LIS and the world at large.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44998950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Uncertainty is a central concept to library and information science. Its physical manifestation is defined as the amount of entropy or noise in information—an idea whose origins lie in the information theory movement of the post–World War II era. Borrowing from the tenets of information theory, uncertainty is also defined as a cognitive state of uneasiness that is often described in negative terms by information behaviorists. Hence, the reduction of uncertainty is a major goal of information seeking. However, little attention is paid to positive uncertainty in information behavior research, and it may be argued that there are mechanisms or traits that can motivate information seekers to embrace uncertainty and find joy in it. In the age of a global pandemic that has been defined by uncertainty, the call for a positive take on uncertainty is more important than ever. This essay explores the mechanisms of joy in information uncertainty.
{"title":"Finding Joy in Uncertainty","authors":"Amanda S. Hovious","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Uncertainty is a central concept to library and information science. Its physical manifestation is defined as the amount of entropy or noise in information—an idea whose origins lie in the information theory movement of the post–World War II era. Borrowing from the tenets of information theory, uncertainty is also defined as a cognitive state of uneasiness that is often described in negative terms by information behaviorists. Hence, the reduction of uncertainty is a major goal of information seeking. However, little attention is paid to positive uncertainty in information behavior research, and it may be argued that there are mechanisms or traits that can motivate information seekers to embrace uncertainty and find joy in it. In the age of a global pandemic that has been defined by uncertainty, the call for a positive take on uncertainty is more important than ever. This essay explores the mechanisms of joy in information uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45210149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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