Stumbling Around: Towards an Approach to Institutional Ethnography as a Frame of Inquiry into Library Work

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Stumbling around: Towards an approach to Institutional Ethnography as a frame of inquiry into library work.Abstract: This paper focuses on the researcher's experience developing an approach to institutional ethnography to examine library work in a Midwestern USA middle school. Throughout the year-and-ahalf process of developing an approach to the methodology, gaining access, collecting data, analyzing data, and writing the dissertation, I kept various journals and writings showing how I learned to see the library ethnographically.Résumé : Cette communication porte sur l'expérience de la chercheure lors du développement d'une approche d'ethnographie institutionnelle afin d'évaluer le travail bibliothéconomique dans une école intermédiaire du Midwest des États-Unis. Durant le processus d'un an et demi qu'a nécessité le développement de la méthodologie, l'accès à l'institution, la collecte et l'analyse de données et la rédaction de la thèse, j'ai consigné par écrit comment j'ai appris à concevoir la bibliothèque d'un point de vue ethnographique.

Creating communities of care: Delineating work in the information-care relationship

“…IE is widely used in professional disciplines such as education and nursing and is slowly gaining prominence in LIS. IE has been used to examine librarians' work (Crispin, 2013;Johnston & Santos Green, 2014) and the work needed to produce and carry out children's programs at public libraries (Stooke & McKenzie, 2009). This paper takes up an IE approach, starting in and privileging the everyday experiences of a caregiver of an aging relative with Alzheimer's disease.…”