Inside the library: Academic librarians’ knowing in practice

Pilerot, Ola; Lindberg, Jenny

doi:10.1177/0961000618769970

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“…Practice-oriented research is concerned with analysing how sayings and doings lay foundations of practices through unmasking routines, rules, norms, conventions, material arrangements and locations (Nicolini, 2009; Pilerot and Lindberg, 2018; Schatzki, 2012). As for the everyday routinised activity and the implicit rules, norms and conventions through which practices are enacted, trace data visualisation enquiry enables fine-grained investigations of separate small-scale activities, which altogether lets the researcher investigate detailed, mundane parts of information practices.…”

Section: Theoretical Implications For Information Practices Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The notion of big data has spawned a rise in research seeking to make sense of these traces using mostly quantitative methods. For a qualitatively inclined researcher interested in how practices, denoting sets of routinised actions, shared ways of understanding the world, rules, norms, conventions and material and geographical settings (Pilerot and Lindberg, 2018) unfold, trace data can be used to recreate these activities. In the investigation of information practices as observations, annotations, photographing, verifying, editing and listing, trace data are particularly useful for investigating such interactions in relation to information systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems

Ekström

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how a methodological coupling of visualisations of trace data and interview methods can be utilised for information practices studies.Design/methodology/approachTrace data visualisation enquiry is suggested as the coupling of visualising exported data from an information system and using these visualisations as basis for interview guides and elicitation in information practices research. The methodology is illustrated and applied through a small-scale empirical study of a citizen science project.FindingsThe study found that trace data visualisation enquiry enabled fine-grained investigations of temporal aspects of information practices and to compare and explore temporal and geographical aspects of practices. Moreover, the methodology made possible inquiries for understanding information practices through trace data that were discussed through elicitation with participants. The study also found that it can aid a researcher of gaining a simultaneous overarching and close picture of information practices, which can lead to theoretical and methodological implications for information practices research.Originality/valueTrace data visualisation enquiry extends current methods for investigating information practices as it enables focus to be placed on the traces of practices as recorded through interactions with information systems and study participants' accounts of activities.

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Section: Theoretical Implications For Information Practices Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems

Ekström

2021

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“…It could be conceptualized as a form of information use (e.g. Pilerot & Lindberg, 2018) but it also contains a clear feature of information seeking (e.g. Bates, 1989).…”

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Monitoring, browsing and being aware – Keeping abreast and staying updated with professional information in Swedish regional libraries

Pilerot

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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A substantial part of the work conducted by librarians at Swedish regional libraries concerns staying alert and informed in ways that allow for continuous development of the kind of knowledge and abilities that are required for doing a qualified job, but this part of the work is elusive and hard to identify. This paper presents an empirical study that elucidates this specific kind of work of keeping abreast and updated with professional information. Empirical data were produced through interviews and logbooks with 10 members of staff at 4 regional libraries in Sweden. The data were analysed by employing Marcia Bates’ model of different information-seeking modes. The results of the study show that the activity in focus is seamlessly intertwined with other work activities and enacted in a variety of ways that are adapted after other work tasks (than the information seeking in itself) and dependent on individual preferences and routines. Since there is a certain conception of this activity as something that should be carried out in a certain systematic way and since it is something that one as a librarian ought to be good at, it is furthermore often associated with a normative dimension that provokes a sense of guilt among the study participants.

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“…Studien har tidigare i ett mer omfattande format rapporterats på engelska (sePilerot & Lindberg, 2018).http://doi.org/10.15626/mpf.2018.op…”

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Högskolebibliotekariers informationsanvändning

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2020

Mötesplats Profession Forskning 2018

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Högskolebibliotekariers informationsanvändning Introduktion Intresset för olika yrkesgruppers informationsrelaterade aktiviteter är utbrett inom det fält av biblioteks-och informationsvetenskapen (B&I) som vanligtvis går under benämningen informationsbeteende (se exempelvis Case och Given, 2016). En yrkeskategori som dock inte har studerats särskilt ingående är bibliotekarier. Med undantag av Jenny Lindbergs (2015) avhandling om B&I-studenters och nyanställda högskolebibliotekariers informationssökning finns det få empiriska studier av hur bibliotekarier söker och använder information i arbetet. Den studie som presenteras här syftar till att bidra med kunskap om högskolebibliotekariers professionella informationsanvändning 1. För att uppnå syftet har följande två forskningsfrågor formulerats:

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Inside the library: Academic librarians’ knowing in practice

Cited by 16 publications

References 23 publications

Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems

Trace data visualisation enquiry: a methodological coupling for studying information practices in relation to information systems

Monitoring, browsing and being aware – Keeping abreast and staying updated with professional information in Swedish regional libraries

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