Monday, February 06, 2023

The Joy of Information

Library Trends (Volume 70, Number 4: priced publication) has a special issue on the Joy of Information.It includes haiku composed by information science students and these are some of the articles:
- Love Is a Lens: Locating Love in Library and Information Studies by Mary Greenshields, Sarah  Polkinghorne
- Finding Joy in Uncertainty by Amanda S. Hovious
- A Return to the Stone Age: Rock Art as Joyful Information Practice during COVID-19 by Bonnie J. Tulloch
- Aftercare, Not an Afterthought: Providing Access to Records to Adults Formerly in Care by Camille Moret, Abigail Wallace
- Pleasure and the Practice of Classification by Amanda Belantara, Emily Drabinski
- Taking Flight with Document Diffraction by Alex Urban
- PLATO Lessons: Rediscovering the Joy of Information in an Innovation Age by Paul F. Marty
- Manifestations of Joy of Information in Everyday Information Behavior Research by Reijo Savolainen
It is badged as "Spring 2022" but is the latest issue. Go to https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/49935
Photo by Sheila Webber: joyful rocks and shingle on Aberystwyth beach, January 2023

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