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":"70 1","pages":"458 - 471"},"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:To address the shortage of research that examines positive information experiences, this post-qualitative study examines how a hobbyist artifact fosters joy. This research focuses on the entanglements between a single person and a single document—specifically, a birding life list. Drawing from research on serious leisure pursuits, information behavior, and document studies, this playful examination uses auto-methodologies and poststructural techniques. By plugging in theory with depictions of the artifact and corresponding self-reflections, the study presents five elements of joy that emerged from the process. Born out of a series of diffractions, joy appeared through reflection on the hobbyist arc, the excitement of searching and collecting, storytelling, memoralia (narrative keepsakes), and the bittersweet feeling of joy's transience. Although this study focuses on list making, a behavior inherently imbued with rigidity, it presents the possibilities of fluid methodologies to examine positive human experiences in information science.
{"title":"Taking Flight with Document Diffraction","authors":"Alex C. Urban","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:To address the shortage of research that examines positive information experiences, this post-qualitative study examines how a hobbyist artifact fosters joy. This research focuses on the entanglements between a single person and a single document—specifically, a birding life list. Drawing from research on serious leisure pursuits, information behavior, and document studies, this playful examination uses auto-methodologies and poststructural techniques. By plugging in theory with depictions of the artifact and corresponding self-reflections, the study presents five elements of joy that emerged from the process. Born out of a series of diffractions, joy appeared through reflection on the hobbyist arc, the excitement of searching and collecting, storytelling, memoralia (narrative keepsakes), and the bittersweet feeling of joy's transience. Although this study focuses on list making, a behavior inherently imbued with rigidity, it presents the possibilities of fluid methodologies to examine positive human experiences in information science.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"592 - 614"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42899775","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 paper examines the way COVID-19-related rock art challenges popular assumptions about the information society and the digital age. Adopting a constructivist-based humanities approach, it explores the significance of rock art as an information practice that emerged in response to the pandemic. Specifically, this personal case study reflects on the way rock art encouraged people to practice "joyful attention" and "kind attention" during the 2020 spring restrictions in British Columbia. Analyzing the possible values associated with different rock designs, I suggest that this joy-oriented information practice presents an alternative narrative of the present time, one that is ultimately more positive in its representation of the world than the negative, technologically driven discourses that tend to dominate cultural narratives of information.
{"title":"A Return to the Stone Age: Rock Art as Joyful Information Practice during COVID-19","authors":"Bonnie J. Tulloch","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines the way COVID-19-related rock art challenges popular assumptions about the information society and the digital age. Adopting a constructivist-based humanities approach, it explores the significance of rock art as an information practice that emerged in response to the pandemic. Specifically, this personal case study reflects on the way rock art encouraged people to practice \"joyful attention\" and \"kind attention\" during the 2020 spring restrictions in British Columbia. Analyzing the possible values associated with different rock designs, I suggest that this joy-oriented information practice presents an alternative narrative of the present time, one that is ultimately more positive in its representation of the world than the negative, technologically driven discourses that tend to dominate cultural narratives of information.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"519 - 546"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46853251","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 paper examines how "Joy" is presented in several knowledge organization systems: subject heading lists, thesauri, and one ontology. Some use "Joy" as a preferred term, one combines it with another term in a compound preferred term, and others include "Joy" as a pointer to a different preferred term. The paper describes and compares various understandings of "Joy" as presented by these systems, summarizes the results, and makes some observations about aspects of these systems brought to the fore by the analysis.
{"title":"On Preferring Joy","authors":"Chris Benda","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper examines how \"Joy\" is presented in several knowledge organization systems: subject heading lists, thesauri, and one ontology. Some use \"Joy\" as a preferred term, one combines it with another term in a compound preferred term, and others include \"Joy\" as a pointer to a different preferred term. The paper describes and compares various understandings of \"Joy\" as presented by these systems, summarizes the results, and makes some observations about aspects of these systems brought to the fore by the analysis.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"635 - 659"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45530204","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 Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis offers us his account of his conversion to Christianity. Using his experiences of joy as "signposts," he leads us through his early life up to his conversion at age thirty-one. I reflect on Lewis's account as a librarian, researcher, and fellow Christian, considering his information world and the people who aided and hindered him on his faith journey. I conclude with some thoughts on his and my own conversion, as both unique yet shared experiences within the Christian tradition.
{"title":"Informed by Joy: A Christian Librarian's Reflection on C. S. Lewis","authors":"D. Michels","doi":"10.1353/lib.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Surprised by Joy C. S. Lewis offers us his account of his conversion to Christianity. Using his experiences of joy as \"signposts,\" he leads us through his early life up to his conversion at age thirty-one. I reflect on Lewis's account as a librarian, researcher, and fellow Christian, considering his information world and the people who aided and hindered him on his faith journey. I conclude with some thoughts on his and my own conversion, as both unique yet shared experiences within the Christian tradition.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"504 - 517"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45829048","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 recognition of the critical role that libraries play in the educational lives of student parents, there has been a noticeable trend in academic libraries to offer services and spaces for students and their children. This article reviews recent library and information science (LIS) literature on student parent initiatives in academic libraries. The purpose of this synthesis is to highlight demographic data, research findings, and case studies that, considered together, may significantly expand the profession’s knowledge about the barriers student parents face in accessing the academic library and its services. The article first lays out the rationale and urgency of providing library services and spaces to student parents. Then, a summary of existing LIS literature on student parents is provided. To enable individual libraries to undertake their own family-friendly initiatives, this section outlines the stages and steps identified by scholars and practitioners as necessary to design and implement successful policies, spaces, and services for student parents.
{"title":"Students and Parents: How Academic Libraries Serve a Growing Population","authors":"Marta Bladek","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In recognition of the critical role that libraries play in the educational lives of student parents, there has been a noticeable trend in academic libraries to offer services and spaces for students and their children. This article reviews recent library and information science (LIS) literature on student parent initiatives in academic libraries. The purpose of this synthesis is to highlight demographic data, research findings, and case studies that, considered together, may significantly expand the profession’s knowledge about the barriers student parents face in accessing the academic library and its services. The article first lays out the rationale and urgency of providing library services and spaces to student parents. Then, a summary of existing LIS literature on student parents is provided. To enable individual libraries to undertake their own family-friendly initiatives, this section outlines the stages and steps identified by scholars and practitioners as necessary to design and implement successful policies, spaces, and services for student parents.","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"256 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47462198","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}
[...]shifting ideologies surrounding "the family” inform and carry implications for economic, political, cultural, and social practices and activities. [...]of this dominance and influence of the family, this special issue centers on family-focused library and information science (LIS) research and is borne from conversations and reflections posed at a 2019 iConference Session for Interaction and Engagement of the same name. [...]in "Students and Parents: How Academic Libraries Serve a Growing Population,” Marta Bladek employs multiple sources of data to draw attention to the challenges and barriers postsecondary students who are also parents must contend with as they attempt to access academic library services and supports. [...]the articles in this issue also highlight the diverse areas within LIS that may be enriched by a consideration of the family context, including the study of information practices (Han;McKenzie;Ortiz-Myers and Costello), archival practices and personal information management (Krtalić, Dinneen, Liew, and Goulding), consumer health information (Charbonneau and Akers), reader response theory (Velez), early literacy (Prendergast and Sharkey), and library service provision (Bladek).
{"title":"Introduction","authors":"N. Dalmer, Sarah Barriage","doi":"10.1353/lib.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"[...]shifting ideologies surrounding \"the family” inform and carry implications for economic, political, cultural, and social practices and activities. [...]of this dominance and influence of the family, this special issue centers on family-focused library and information science (LIS) research and is borne from conversations and reflections posed at a 2019 iConference Session for Interaction and Engagement of the same name. [...]in \"Students and Parents: How Academic Libraries Serve a Growing Population,” Marta Bladek employs multiple sources of data to draw attention to the challenges and barriers postsecondary students who are also parents must contend with as they attempt to access academic library services and supports. [...]the articles in this issue also highlight the diverse areas within LIS that may be enriched by a consideration of the family context, including the study of information practices (Han;McKenzie;Ortiz-Myers and Costello), archival practices and personal information management (Krtalić, Dinneen, Liew, and Goulding), consumer health information (Charbonneau and Akers), reader response theory (Velez), early literacy (Prendergast and Sharkey), and library service provision (Bladek).","PeriodicalId":47175,"journal":{"name":"Library Trends","volume":"70 1","pages":"73 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47760538","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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