Local Music Collectors in Cultural Heritage Organizations: Finding Joy through Occupational Devotion
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2022
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Doi, Carolyn
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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Local music collecting in cultural heritage organizations is a rich practice for the study of joy and information. This article examines the joyful and personally meaningful experiences of local music collectors, as drawn from interviews with twenty-two individuals at eighteen cultural heritage organizations conducted from 2018 to 2020. Collectors describe their work with local music collections to be personally meaningful, positive, and even joyful. For many, the positive affective experiences found through the blending of personal interests and professional projects is a key factor in their workplace well-being, motivation, and personal fulfillment. Collectors apply a community-engaged approach to their professional practice, finding self-fulfillment through their work and connection to the local music community. These findings are discussed within the context of the serious leisure perspective, and the pleasurable and the profound in library and information science research.
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Copyright © 2023 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. This article first appeared in LIBRARY TRENDS, Volume 70, Issue 4, 2022, pages 574-591. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Occupational Devotion, local music collections, cultural heritage
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Luyk, S., & Doi, C. (2022). Local Music Collectors in Cultural Heritage Organizations: Finding Joy through Occupational Devotion. Library Trends 70(4), 574-591. doi:10.1353/lib.2022.0019.
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Luyk, S., & Doi, C. (2022). Local Music Collectors in Cultural Heritage Organizations: Finding Joy through Occupational Devotion. Library Trends 70(4), 574-591. doi:10.1353/lib.2022.0019.
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LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 70, No. 4, 2022 (“Joy of Information,” edited by Jenna Hartel and Hailey Siracky), pp. 574–91. © 2023 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois
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10.1353/lib.2022.0019