An ethnographic study of the information behavior of hobby record collectors. The Information Hor... more An ethnographic study of the information behavior of hobby record collectors. The Information Horizon Interview method is used alongside an interview guide as an aide during the interview of convenience and snowball sample subjects. The findings show that emotion, money, and resources are three major themes that intersect in interesting ways. They are found to influence hobby collector's information seeking practices and their collection maintenance. The implication of this finding is that perception of value can be both communal and individual. However, because motivations and goals vary, which resources are used and in what ways is dependent on the individual and the context. The practice of librarianship can benefit from this understanding by using the reference interview as a way to connect these individual motivations and goals with applicable resources.
An ethnographic study of the information behavior of hobby record collectors. The Information Hor... more An ethnographic study of the information behavior of hobby record collectors. The Information Horizon Interview method is used alongside an interview guide as an aide during the interview of convenience and snowball sample subjects. The findings show that emotion, money, and resources are three major themes that intersect in interesting ways. They are found to influence hobby collector's information seeking practices and their collection maintenance. The implication of this finding is that perception of value can be both communal and individual. However, because motivations and goals vary, which resources are used and in what ways is dependent on the individual and the context. The practice of librarianship can benefit from this understanding by using the reference interview as a way to connect these individual motivations and goals with applicable resources.
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