TY - JOUR
KW - archives
KW - Interpretative repertoires
KW - libraries
KW - museums
KW - Participation
KW - Subject positions
AU - Jamie Johnston
AU - Isto Huvila
AU - Henrik Jochumsen
AU - Mahmood Khosrowjerdi
AU - Anna Mierzecka
AU - Agusta Palsdottir
AB - Recent studies provide insights into library, archive and museum (LAM) professionals  attitudes toward user participation, yet they do not address how the diversity of roles LAM professionals assume may influence their attitudes toward participation. The reported findings based on a questionnaire to LAM professionals in Norway and Sweden indicate that user participation is viewed differently depending on how the professionals perceive their roles in relation to those of other professions. Analysis of the underlying relationships between the questionnaire respondents  perceptions and attitudes identifies three subject positions with associated interpretative repertoires: power sharing, outsourcing and engaging experts. Additional analysis using a four-quadrant model of user engagement that differentiates between bottom-up and top-down approaches and between areas of organizational activity suggests that the respondents primarily see themselves as experts within their respective fields and have yet to relinquish this role in favor of a more bottom-up approach to user participation.
BT - Library & Information Science Research
DO - 10.1016/j.lisr.2023.101249
M1 - 3
N2 - Recent studies provide insights into library, archive and museum (LAM) professionals  attitudes toward user participation, yet they do not address how the diversity of roles LAM professionals assume may influence their attitudes toward participation. The reported findings based on a questionnaire to LAM professionals in Norway and Sweden indicate that user participation is viewed differently depending on how the professionals perceive their roles in relation to those of other professions. Analysis of the underlying relationships between the questionnaire respondents  perceptions and attitudes identifies three subject positions with associated interpretative repertoires: power sharing, outsourcing and engaging experts. Additional analysis using a four-quadrant model of user engagement that differentiates between bottom-up and top-down approaches and between areas of organizational activity suggests that the respondents primarily see themselves as experts within their respective fields and have yet to relinquish this role in favor of a more bottom-up approach to user participation.
PY - 2023
SE - 101249
T2 - Library & Information Science Research
TI - LAM Professionals  Roles and Attitudes to User Participation in Norway and Sweden
VL - 45
SN - 0740-8188
ER -