Considering Popular Fiction and Library Practices of Recommendation: The Literary Status of “The Clique” and Its Historical Progenitors

Pattee, Amy

doi:10.1086/523910

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“…Few information science researchers have explored fiction, but those who have include Ross (1999), Rothbauer (2004 and, Ross et al (2006), Agosto & Hughes-Hassell (2010 and Thelwall & Kousha (2017). Additional information science research exploring fiction include work about information behavior and affect (e.g., the chapters in Nahl & Bilal, 2007, especially McKechnie et al), so-called confessional methods in information behavior research (e.g., Davenport, 2010), materials challenged in libraries (e.g., Pattee, 2008), and "the pleasurable" and fiction (Kari & Hartel, 2007). There is also a literature on fiction as the particular object of search (e.g., Ooi & Liew, 2011;Anna & Pertti, 2017), on the difficulties of cataloging and intellectual control of more creative works especially novels and other works of fiction (e.g., Cawkell, 1997;Maker, 2008), public libraries and fiction (e.g., Carrier, 1965;Snape, 1995;Williams, 1988), and bibliotherapy (e.g., Brewster, 2008, andSturm, 2003 [thanks to Michael Buckland for this useful suggestion]).…”

Section: Information Science and Reading Fictionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fiction as informative and its implications for information science theory

Doty

Broussard

2017

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Reading fiction is a neglected area of study in information behavior research, even as such research has expanded to include investigation of different kinds of behavior by more kinds of people, and an expanded repertoire of research methods and fields. Using data from a small empirical study (n=8) and research from five fields other than information science, the paper reports on participants' reading of fiction and those five fields' study of how reading fiction is informative. Considering fiction informative has two important outcomes: we (1) understand information behavior better and (2) address important problems in information science theory. Such problems include frustrated attempts to define information, the (generally hidden) gendered character of information science and information behavior research, the misguided conduit metaphor and an overemphasis on cognition at the expense of practice, documents and materiality.

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Section: Information Science and Reading Fictionmentioning

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Fiction as informative and its implications for information science theory

Doty

Broussard

2017

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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“…Despite these expansions in the research area of information behavior in a broad array of fields, however, serious research attention to the role of fiction as an informative genre is rare in information studies. Exceptions can be found, for example, in the notable works of Rothbauer () and Sheldrick‐Ross () as described above, as well as in the research streams exploring information behavior and affect (e.g., the chapters in Nahl & Bilal, 2006), materials challenged in libraries (e.g., Pattee, ), and “the pleasurable” and fiction (Kari & Hartel, ). There is also a literature on fiction as the particular object of search (e.g., Ooi & Liew, ) or the difficulty of exercising intellectual control over fiction (see below for more on this theme).…”

Section: Why Has Information Studies Generally Ignored Fiction?mentioning

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Toward an understanding of fiction and information behavior

Broussard

Doty

2016

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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The study of information science and technology has expanded over the years to include more kinds of people, more kinds of behavior, more methods, and a broader inclusion of fields. There is at least one area, however, where very few information studies scholars have tread: entertainment, particularly fiction. Yet many fields indicate that information studies should consider fiction. In this paper, we discuss how fiction is an informative genre and reasons why information studies scholars have mostly ignored fiction. We also identify potential research directions for studying fiction. We provide a summary of works about fiction and information, discuss motivations for expanding (and not expanding) information studies beyond what it is and has been, and we use an exploratory study of one example of a fiction-interaction -reading Young Adult novels -to illustrate how fiction is important to information behavior.

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