Corralling Culture as a Concept in LIS Research

Salzano, Rachel; Hall, Hazel; Webster, Gemma

Abstract

Individuals’ cultural backgrounds influence their use of societal resources, including libraries. A literature search and review was completed on the treatment of culture in library and information science (LIS) in the body of work on information behaviour and use. While much of the literature reviewed cites culture as an important influence, few researchers define culture as a concept, nor do they explore in detail the factors that it comprises. In this body of work culture is primarily used in two ways: (1) to differentiate groups of library users; and (2) to draw attention to questions of integration.

Citation

Salzano, R., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2020). Corralling Culture as a Concept in LIS Research. In Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (e368). https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.368

• Conference Name: 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association of Information Science and Technology
• Conference Location: Virtual
• Start Date: Oct 22, 2020
• End Date: Nov 1, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Oct 22, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 23, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 24, 2020
• Publisher: Wiley
• Volume: 57
• Pages: e368
• Series Title: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• Series ISSN: 2373-9231
• Book Title: Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.368
• Keywords: Culture, Information Behaviours,
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2677841