Clarke (2016)

Author

Clarke, R.

Year

2016

Title

It’s not rocket library science: Design epistemology and American librarianship

University

University of Washington

Discipline (uncoded)

Information School

Macrostructure

Traditional-Simple

Proposed Area of Unconventionality
(Tardy, 2016)

Practice

Description and other notes

 Uses design thinking to challenge the philosophical tenets—that is, the ontological, epistemological, axiological, and methodological assumptions—underpinning the profession and discipline of librarianship. Advocates for the reconceptualization of the field of librarianship as a design-based field rather than a scientific one. Uses a critical inquiry approach more associated with the humanities (analysing artifacts using “close reading”).

(Proposed) Degree of separation or connection between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Connected. Atypical or unconventional element is the method, which is inextricable from the rest of the dissertation.

(Proposed) Type of relationship construed between atypical or unconventional component(s) and conventional or written component(s)

Incorporated. The atypical or unconventional element (which is the method) informs the way in which the dissertation unfolds, however one might argue that the relationship is uni-directional in that it is either unlikely or not made clear how the overall writing of the dissertation informs or influences the method.

Notes/Reasoning

None

Discipline 2 (coded)

Information School

Discipline Grouping (coded)

SS

Source

Participant in Amell (2023)