Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview and evaluation of
interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) for the library and information science (LIS) …

Professional identities shape the way the members of a profession interact with their clients
and society. As librarians are service-oriented professionals, a discursively informed …

Although interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA) has value in library and information
science (LIS), it has low uptake in Africa. The methodological and theoretical approaches to …

Using Q methodology, which is designed to make sense of topics on which there are various
opinions, this study examines the conflicting conceptualizations of reference and information …

This article examines how reference and information service (RIS) expertise is framed by
professional associations in their professional competency documents. Taking a discourse …

Phenomenology, experience, and the essence of documents as objects header published
quarterly by the university of borås, sweden vol. 22 no. 1, March, 2017 Contents | Author index …

Librarians of color make up a small proportion of information professionals, but their
perspectives should still be included in theory and best practices. This study seeks to create …

Orientations to reference and information service are the values, attitudes, and beliefs that
librarians have about reference work. These orientations reveal the cognitive and emotional …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to use the sociology of time to understand how time is
perceived by academic librarians who provide reference and information service (RIS) …

Abstract Information professionals' conceptualizations of reference and information service
(RIS) are explored by examining the metaphors these professionals used in describing their …