Library and Information Science
Arora, P. (2012). The leisure divide: Can the ‘Third World’ come out to play? Information Development, 28(2), 93-101.
Barriage, S. (2015). ‘Talk, talk and more talk': Parental perceptions of young children's information practices related to their hobbies and interests. Information Research, 21(3), paper 721. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/21-3/paper721.html (Archived by WebCite® athttp://www.webcitation.org/6kRgI1yTC).
Bergstrom, K., & Neo, R. (2020). Searching for the stairway to heaven: Information seeking about an illegal hiking trail in Hawai`i. Leisure Studies, 39(5), 751-764, DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2020.1770844.
Blanco, A. V. (2016). El ocio conectado, móvil, transmediay multisoporte de los jóvenes en la era digital/Connected, mobile, transmedia and multiformat leisure of youngs in the digital age. Fonseca, Journal of Communication, 13(año), 99-113. (in Spanish with English abstract).
Brabham, D.C. (2012). The myth of amateur crowds. Information, Communication & Society, 15(3), 394-410.
Bronstein, J., & Lidor, D. (2021). Motivations for music information seeking as serious leisure in a virtual community: Exploring a Eurovision fan club. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 73(2), 271-287.
Budhathoki, N.R., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of openstreetmap. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(5), 548-575.
Burnett, G. (2009). Colliding norms, community, and the place of online information: The case of archive.org. Library Trends, 57, 694-710.
Case, D. O. (2009). Serial collecting as leisure, and coin collecting in particular. Library Trends, 57, 729-752.
Case, D.O. (2010). A model of the information seeking and decision making of online coin buyers. Information Research 15(4), online edition.
Chang, S-J. L. (2005). Serious leisure and information research. Journal of Library and Information Studies, 3(1/2), 15-22.
Chang, S-J. L. (2009). Information research in leisure: Implications from an empirical study of backpackers. Library Trends, 57, 711-728.
Cox, A.M., & Blake, M.K. (2011). Information and food blogging as serious leisure. Aslib Proceedings,63(2-3), 204-220.
Cox, A.M., Clough, P.D., & Marlow, J. (2008). Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure. Information Research,13 (1). [Avalable at: http://InformationR.net/ir/13-1/paper336.html] (accessed June 1, 2008).
Cox, A. M., Griffin, B., & Hartel, J. (2017). What everybody knows: Embodied information in serious leisure. Journal of Documentation, 73(3), 386-406, https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2016-0073
Demasson, A., Partridge, H. & Bruce, C. (2016). Information literacy and the serious leisure participant: Variation in the experience of using information to learn. Information Research, 21(2), paper 711. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/21-2/paper711.html (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6hn0cSj5s)
Einarsson, A. M., & Hertzum, M. (2021). How do makers obtain information for their makerspace projects? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1002/asi.24528.
Elliott, J. M. (2020). A multiple case study of stopping decisions in episodes of self-directed leisure learning. Doctoral dissertation, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona).
Elsweiler, D., Mandl, S., & Lunn, B. K. (2010). Understanding casual-leisure information needs: A diary study in the context of television viewing. IIiX’10 Proceedings of the third symposium on information interaction in context, pp. 25-34. New Brunswick, NJ, USA — August 18 - 21, 2010
Elsweiler, D., Wilson, M. L., & Lunn, B. K. (2011). Understanding casual-leisure information behaviour. New Directions in Information Behaviour, 1, 211-241.
Feng, Y., & Agosto, D. E. (2019) From health to performance: Amateur runners’ personal health information management with activity tracking technology. Aslib Journal of Information Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-07-2018-0170.
Feng, Y., & Agosto, D. (2019). From health to performance. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(2), 217-240.
Fulton, C. (2009). Quid pro quo: Information sharing in leisure activities. Library Trends, 57, 753-768.
Fulton, C. (2009). The pleasure principle: The power of positive affect in information seeking. Aslib Proceedings, 61(3) 245–261.
Fulton, C. (2016). The genealogist’s information world: Creating information in the pursuit of a hobby. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 8(1), 85-100.
Fulton, C. (2017). Urban exploration: Secrecy and information creation and sharing in a hobby context. Library and Information Science Research, 39(3), 189-198.
Fulton, C., & Vondracek, R. (2009). Introduction: Pleasurable pursuits: Leisure and LIS research. Library Trends, 57, 611-617.
Gainor, R. (2008). Leisure information behaviours in hobby quilting sites. Masters in Library Science, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta (Canada).
Gonzalez-Reyes, R. (2020). An experience on informal learning, girlhood and collective collaboration: A case about young women in an online forum dedicated to translating books. In J. M. P. Tornero, G. Orozco, & E. Hamburger (Eds.), Media and information literacy in critical times: Re-imagining learning and information environments (pp. 103-116). Barcelona: UNESCO, Chair on Media and Information Literacy for Quality Journalism, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Gorichanaz, T. (2017). There’s no shortcut: Building understanding from information in ultrarunning. Journal of Information Science, 43(5), 713–722.
Hartel, J. (2003). The serious leisure frontier in library and information science: Hobby domains. Knowledge Organization, 30(3/4), 228-238.
Hartel, J. (2005). Serious leisure. In K. Fisher, S. Erdelez, & L. McKechnie (Eds.), Theories of information behavior: A researcher’s guide (pp. 313-317). Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Hartel, J. (2006). Information activities and resources in an episode of gourmet cooking. Information Research, 12(1). [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper282.html]
Hartel, J. (2006). Taking leisure seriously: Information realities in leisure time. In A. Grove (Ed.), Proceedings of the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, November 3-8, 2006, Austin, Texas. Vol. 43. American Society for Information Science and Technology: Silver Springs, Maryland.
Hartel, J. (2007). Information activities, resources, and spaces in the hobby of gourmet cooking. Doctoral dissertaiton, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (USA).
Hartel, J. (2010). Hobby and leisure information and its users. In M. J. Bates, & M. N. Maack (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library and information science (3rd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 3263-3274). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Hartel, J. (2010). Managing documents at home for serious leisure: A case study of the hobby of gourmet cooking. Journal of Documentation, 66(6), pp. 847-874.
Hartel, J. (2010). Time as a framework for information science: Insights from the hobby of gourmet cooking. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science. Information Research, 15(4), colis715.
Hartel, J. (2014). An interdisciplinary platform for information behavior research in the liberal arts hobby. Journal of Documentation, 70(5), 945 – 962.
Hartel, J., Cox, A. M., & Griffin, B. L. (2016). Information activity in serious leisure. Information Research, 21(4), paper728. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/21-4/paper728.html (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6m5H6PUqm)
Hayatu, M. M. (2018). Exploring social spaces for information activities among social actors at mai-shayi joints (tea shops) in Samaru community, Kaduna state, Nigeria. Ph.D thesis, School of Postgraduate Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Hyatt, E., Harvey, M., Pointon, M., & Innocenti, P. (2020). Whither wilderness? An investigation of technology use by long‐distance backpackers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24437.
Jones, I., & Symon, G. (2001). Lifelong learning as serious leisure: Policy, practice, and potential. Leisure Studies, 20, 269-28.
Joseph, P. (2016). Australian motor sport enthusiasts’ leisure information behaviour. Journal of Documentation, 72(6), 1078-1113. doi: 10.1108/JD-12-2015-0150
Kari, J. & Hartel, J. (2007). Information and higher things in life: Addressing the pleasurable and the profound in information science. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58 (8), 1131-1147.
Ke, X., Wagner, C., & Du, H. S. (2022). Calling for information systems research on esports: An overview study. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 50, https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.05010.
Khan, M. K., & Ullah, A. (2024). Exploring the elements that influence postgraduate students' reading trends in university. Inverge Journal of Social Sciences, 3(3), 54-67, https://invergejournals.com/
Khoo, L. H. (2008). Top-circulated magazines: Visual and narrative representation of both serious leisure content and libraries. Doctoral dissertation, College of Professional Education, Texas Woman's University (USA).
Lloyd, A., & Olsson, M. (2019). Untangling the knot: The information practices of enthusiast car restorers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/10.1002/asi.24284.
Maloney, S. M. (2008). The occupational performance of collegiate high-risk drinking as a serious leisure hobby. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Occupational Therapy, Nova Southeastern University (USA).
Mansourian, Y. (2018). Information behaviours in the context of casual and serious leisure. Paper presented at School of Information Studies Research Seminars, Charles Sturt University. Wagga Wagga, Australia. Source: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/data/assets/pdf file/0003/3027198/SISRxSem2018. Mansourian.2May2018.Flyer1.pdf.
Mansourian, Y. (2019). How passionate people seek and share various forms of information in their serious leisure. Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, DOI: 10.1080/24750158.2019.1686569.
Mansourian, Y. (2019). Information sharing patterns in serious leisure practice: A qualitative study. Paper presented at Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS), Canberra, Australia. https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/information-sharing-patterns-in-serious-leisure-practice-a-qualit
Mansourian, Y. (2019). Joyful information seeking in serious leisure practice. Poster presented at 2019 ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium: Re-envisioning the Impact and Engagement of Information Behavior Research, Melbourne, Australia. https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/joyful-information-seeking-in-serious-leisure-practice
Mansourian, Y. (2019). Looking for transcendental information in the context of serious leisure. Paper presented at School of Information Studies Research Seminars, Charles Sturt University. Wagga Wagga, Australia. Source: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/3027198/SISRxSem2018.Mansourian.2May2018.Flyer1.pdf
Mansourian, Y. (2019). Passionate reading as a serious leisure. Incite, 40(11/12), 10-11. https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/passionate-reading-as-a-serious-leisure
Mansourian, Y. (2021). Information activities in serious leisure as a catalyst for self-actualisation and social engagement. Journal of Documentation, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2020-0134.
Mansourian, Y. (2021). Joyful information activities in serious leisure: Looking for pleasure, passion and purpose. Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-01-2021-0002.
Mansourian, Y. (2024). Information experiences of bonsai growers: A phenomenological study in serious leisure. Journal of Documentation, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-02-2024-0044.
Mansourian, Y., & Bannister, M. (2019). Five benefits of serious leisure for a public library. Incite, 40(5/6), 32-33.
Miller, M. (2012). Scrapbooks, albums and notebooks: An act of leisure, a document of leisure, a labour of leisure. In R. Snape, M. Constantine, & H. Pussard (Eds.), Recording leisure lives: Everyday leisure in 20th century Britain (pp. 51-66), LSA Publication No. 118. Eastbourne, UK: Leisure Studies Association.
Nowé Hedvall, K, Gärdén, C., Ahlryd, S., Michnik, K., Carlén, U. & Byström, K. (2017). Social media in serious leisure: themes of horse rider safety. Information Research, 22(4), paper 772. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/22-4/paper772.html
Ocepek, M. G. (2018). Bringing out the everyday in everyday information behavior. Journal of Documentation, 74(2), 398-411. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca/10.1108/JD-10-2016-0119.
O’Connor, L.G. (2013). The information seeking and use behaviors of retired investors. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 45(1),
3-22.
Okob, E.A.R.H. (2014). Library services for adults in the 21st century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABL-CLIO, LLC.
Palso, N. T. (2008). Serious road-tripping: A study of serious and project-based leisure in self-drive recreationists in Alaska. Doctoral dissertation, Department of Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Management, Pennsylvania State University (USA).
Pospíšil, J., Pospíšilová, H., & Trochtová, L. (2022). The catalogue of leisure activities: A new structured values and content based instrument for leisure research usable for social development and community planning. Sustainability, 14, 2657. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052657.
Price, L., & Robinson, L. (2017). ‘Being in a knowledge space’: Information behaviour of cult media fan communities. Journal of Information Science, 43(5), 649–664.
Prigoda, E., & McKenzie, P. J. (2007). Purls of wisdom: A collectivist study of human information behaviour in a public library knitting group. Journal of Documentation, 63, 90-114.
Quirk, L.C. (2014). A study of the information practices of Afghan newcomer youth in the contexts of leisure and settlement. PhD Dissertation, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.
Richards, S., Pacella, J., & Munro, K. (2023). Comradery and the arts: Experiences of senior volunteers in a festival city. Journal of Festive Studies, 5(1), 326-255, https://doi.org/10.33823/jfs.2023.5.1.139.g.
Roberson, D. N., Jr. (2005). Leisure and learning: An investigation of older adults and self-directed learning. Leisure/Loisir, 29, 203-238.
Robinson, J., & Yerbury, H. (2015). Re-enactment and its information practices: Tensions between the individual and the collective. Journal of Documentation, 71(3), 591-608. doi: 10.1108/JD-03-2014-0051
Ross, C. S. (2009). Reader on top: Public libraries, pleasure reading, and models of reading. Library Trends, 57, 632-656.
Roued, H., Castenbrandt, H., & Revuelta‑Eugercios, B. A. (2022). Search, save and share: Family historians’ engagement practices with digital platforms. Archival Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09404-4.
Rowlandson-O’Hara, S. (2020). From forests to formulas: Contextual examination of composers' sources, materials, and practices involving creative insight. Masters Thesis, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Canada.
Savolainen, R., & Thomson, L. (2021). Assessing the theoretical potential of an expanded model for everyday information practices. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1002/asi.24589.
Schaller, R., Marvey, M., & Elsweiler, D. (2012). Improving search experience on distributed leisure events. Available online at:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-909/paper6.pdf.
Skov, M. (2013). Hobby-related information-seeking behaviour of highly dedicated online museum visitors Information Research, 18(4) paper 597. [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/18-4/paper597.html]
Spurgin, K., (2008). Everyday information organization practices in the pursuit of leisure: The information organization, management, and keeping activities of amateur art photographers. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.
Stebbins, R. A. (2006). Contemplation as leisure and nonleisure. Leisure Studies Association Newsletter, 73.
Stebbins, R. A. (2009). Leisure and its relationship to library and information science: Bridging the gap. Library Trends, 57, 618-631.
Stebbins, R. A. (2013). The Committed Reader. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
Stooke, R., & McKenzie, P. J. (2009). Leisure and work in library and community programs for very young children. Library Trends, 57, 657-675.
Thomson, L. E. A. (2019). “‘Doing’ YouTube”: Information creating in the context of serious beauty and lifestyle. Doctoral Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States.
Tsai, T.-I & Chen, H.-Y. (2021). Examining cooking hobbyists’ information-seeking behavior in different situations and in different stages from a serious leisure perspective. Data and Information Management, 5, 167-173. DOI: 10.2478/dim-2020-0030.
Urban, R. (2007). Second Life , Serious leisure and LIS. ASIST Bulletin, August/September.
Urban, R., Marty, P., & Twidale, M. (2007) A Second Life for your museum: 3D multi-user virtual environments and museums. In J. Trant and D. Bearman (Eds.). Museums and the Web 2007: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics.
VanScoy, A., Thomson, L., & Hartel, J. (2020). Applying theory in practice: The serious leisure perspective and public library programming. Library and Information Science, 42(3), Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2020.101034.
Vardell, E., Thomas, P. A., & Wang, T. (2023). The informational “cosplay journey” of Star Wars cosplayers in the context of a Facebook group. Information Research, 28(3), 38-60, DOI: https://doi.org/10.47989/ir283199.
Vesga Vinchira, A. (2019). Modelling the information practices of music fans living in Medellín, Colombia. Information Research, 24(3), paper 833. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/243/paper833.html (Archived by archive.today at http://archive.is/lpDkl).
Vinchira, A.V. (2018). Prácticas informacionales de los aficionados a la música: El caso del tango y el metal en la ciudad de Medellín. Masters thesis, Universidad de Antioquia, Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecología, Medellín, Columbia.
Wilson, M.L., Alhodaithi, B., & Hurst, M. (2012). A diary study of information needs produced in casual-leisure reading situations. Available online at:
http://cs.swan.ac.uk/~csmax/pubs/search4fun-reading.pdf.
Wilson, M. L. and Elsweiler, D. (2010) Casual-leisure Searching: the Exploratory Search scenarios that break our current models. In: 4th International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, Aug 22 2010, New Brunswick, NJ. pp 28-31.
Yakel, E. (2004). Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians. Information Research, 10 (1). [Available at: http://InformationR.net/ir/10-1/paper205.html] (accessed June 1, 2008).
Yeh, N. (2016). The role of online videos in undergraduate casual leisure information behaviour. International Journal of Social, Behavioural, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering, 10(2), 2277-2282.
Zhang, Y., & Capra, R. (2019). Understanding how people use search to support their everyday creative tasks. In 2019 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR '19), March 10-14, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, UK. https://doi.org/10.1145/3295750.3298936.
Zimmerman, T. (2024). Crime junkies: A case for studying information behavior surrounding true crime podcasts. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 61(1), 715-720. DOI: 10.1002/pra2.1085
Barriage, S. (2015). ‘Talk, talk and more talk': Parental perceptions of young children's information practices related to their hobbies and interests. Information Research, 21(3), paper 721. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/21-3/paper721.html (Archived by WebCite® athttp://www.webcitation.org/6kRgI1yTC).
Bergstrom, K., & Neo, R. (2020). Searching for the stairway to heaven: Information seeking about an illegal hiking trail in Hawai`i. Leisure Studies, 39(5), 751-764, DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2020.1770844.
Blanco, A. V. (2016). El ocio conectado, móvil, transmediay multisoporte de los jóvenes en la era digital/Connected, mobile, transmedia and multiformat leisure of youngs in the digital age. Fonseca, Journal of Communication, 13(año), 99-113. (in Spanish with English abstract).
Brabham, D.C. (2012). The myth of amateur crowds. Information, Communication & Society, 15(3), 394-410.
Bronstein, J., & Lidor, D. (2021). Motivations for music information seeking as serious leisure in a virtual community: Exploring a Eurovision fan club. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 73(2), 271-287.
Budhathoki, N.R., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of openstreetmap. American Behavioral Scientist, 57(5), 548-575.
Burnett, G. (2009). Colliding norms, community, and the place of online information: The case of archive.org. Library Trends, 57, 694-710.
Case, D. O. (2009). Serial collecting as leisure, and coin collecting in particular. Library Trends, 57, 729-752.
Case, D.O. (2010). A model of the information seeking and decision making of online coin buyers. Information Research 15(4), online edition.
Chang, S-J. L. (2005). Serious leisure and information research. Journal of Library and Information Studies, 3(1/2), 15-22.
Chang, S-J. L. (2009). Information research in leisure: Implications from an empirical study of backpackers. Library Trends, 57, 711-728.
Cox, A.M., & Blake, M.K. (2011). Information and food blogging as serious leisure. Aslib Proceedings,63(2-3), 204-220.
Cox, A.M., Clough, P.D., & Marlow, J. (2008). Flickr: a first look at user behaviour in the context of photography as serious leisure. Information Research,13 (1). [Avalable at: http://InformationR.net/ir/13-1/paper336.html] (accessed June 1, 2008).
Cox, A. M., Griffin, B., & Hartel, J. (2017). What everybody knows: Embodied information in serious leisure. Journal of Documentation, 73(3), 386-406, https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2016-0073
Demasson, A., Partridge, H. & Bruce, C. (2016). Information literacy and the serious leisure participant: Variation in the experience of using information to learn. Information Research, 21(2), paper 711. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/21-2/paper711.html (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6hn0cSj5s)
Einarsson, A. M., & Hertzum, M. (2021). How do makers obtain information for their makerspace projects? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1002/asi.24528.
Elliott, J. M. (2020). A multiple case study of stopping decisions in episodes of self-directed leisure learning. Doctoral dissertation, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, Arizona).
Elsweiler, D., Mandl, S., & Lunn, B. K. (2010). Understanding casual-leisure information needs: A diary study in the context of television viewing. IIiX’10 Proceedings of the third symposium on information interaction in context, pp. 25-34. New Brunswick, NJ, USA — August 18 - 21, 2010
Elsweiler, D., Wilson, M. L., & Lunn, B. K. (2011). Understanding casual-leisure information behaviour. New Directions in Information Behaviour, 1, 211-241.
Feng, Y., & Agosto, D. E. (2019) From health to performance: Amateur runners’ personal health information management with activity tracking technology. Aslib Journal of Information Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-07-2018-0170.
Feng, Y., & Agosto, D. (2019). From health to performance. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(2), 217-240.
Fulton, C. (2009). Quid pro quo: Information sharing in leisure activities. Library Trends, 57, 753-768.
Fulton, C. (2009). The pleasure principle: The power of positive affect in information seeking. Aslib Proceedings, 61(3) 245–261.
Fulton, C. (2016). The genealogist’s information world: Creating information in the pursuit of a hobby. Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 8(1), 85-100.
Fulton, C. (2017). Urban exploration: Secrecy and information creation and sharing in a hobby context. Library and Information Science Research, 39(3), 189-198.
Fulton, C., & Vondracek, R. (2009). Introduction: Pleasurable pursuits: Leisure and LIS research. Library Trends, 57, 611-617.
Gainor, R. (2008). Leisure information behaviours in hobby quilting sites. Masters in Library Science, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta (Canada).
Gonzalez-Reyes, R. (2020). An experience on informal learning, girlhood and collective collaboration: A case about young women in an online forum dedicated to translating books. In J. M. P. Tornero, G. Orozco, & E. Hamburger (Eds.), Media and information literacy in critical times: Re-imagining learning and information environments (pp. 103-116). Barcelona: UNESCO, Chair on Media and Information Literacy for Quality Journalism, Faculty of Communication Sciences, Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Gorichanaz, T. (2017). There’s no shortcut: Building understanding from information in ultrarunning. Journal of Information Science, 43(5), 713–722.
Hartel, J. (2003). The serious leisure frontier in library and information science: Hobby domains. Knowledge Organization, 30(3/4), 228-238.
Hartel, J. (2005). Serious leisure. In K. Fisher, S. Erdelez, & L. McKechnie (Eds.), Theories of information behavior: A researcher’s guide (pp. 313-317). Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Hartel, J. (2006). Information activities and resources in an episode of gourmet cooking. Information Research, 12(1). [Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/12-1/paper282.html]
Hartel, J. (2006). Taking leisure seriously: Information realities in leisure time. In A. Grove (Ed.), Proceedings of the 69th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, November 3-8, 2006, Austin, Texas. Vol. 43. American Society for Information Science and Technology: Silver Springs, Maryland.
Hartel, J. (2007). Information activities, resources, and spaces in the hobby of gourmet cooking. Doctoral dissertaiton, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (USA).
Hartel, J. (2010). Hobby and leisure information and its users. In M. J. Bates, & M. N. Maack (Eds.), Encyclopedia of library and information science (3rd ed., Vol. 4, pp. 3263-3274). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Hartel, J. (2010). Managing documents at home for serious leisure: A case study of the hobby of gourmet cooking. Journal of Documentation, 66(6), pp. 847-874.
Hartel, J. (2010). Time as a framework for information science: Insights from the hobby of gourmet cooking. Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Conceptions of Library and Information Science. Information Research, 15(4), colis715.
Hartel, J. (2014). An interdisciplinary platform for information behavior research in the liberal arts hobby. Journal of Documentation, 70(5), 945 – 962.
Hartel, J., Cox, A. M., & Griffin, B. L. (2016). Information activity in serious leisure. Information Research, 21(4), paper728. Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/21-4/paper728.html (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6m5H6PUqm)
Hayatu, M. M. (2018). Exploring social spaces for information activities among social actors at mai-shayi joints (tea shops) in Samaru community, Kaduna state, Nigeria. Ph.D thesis, School of Postgraduate Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
Hyatt, E., Harvey, M., Pointon, M., & Innocenti, P. (2020). Whither wilderness? An investigation of technology use by long‐distance backpackers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24437.
Jones, I., & Symon, G. (2001). Lifelong learning as serious leisure: Policy, practice, and potential. Leisure Studies, 20, 269-28.
Joseph, P. (2016). Australian motor sport enthusiasts’ leisure information behaviour. Journal of Documentation, 72(6), 1078-1113. doi: 10.1108/JD-12-2015-0150
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