Managing documents at home for serious leisure: a case study of the hobby of gourmet cooking

摘要

Purpose - This paper aims to describe the way participants in the hobby of gourmet cooking in thernUSA manage culinary information in their homes.rnDesign/methodology/approach - The study utilizes domain analysis and serious leisure as arnconceptual framework and employs an ethnographic approach. In total 20 gourmet cooks in the USArnwere interviewed at home and then their culinary information collections were documented through arnguided tour and photographic inventory. The resulting ethnographic record was analyzed usingrngrounded theory and NVivo software.rnFindings - The findings introduce the personal culinary library (PCL): a constellation ofrncooking-related information resources and information structures in the home of the gourmet cook,rnand an associated set of upkeep activities that increase with the collection's size. PCLs are shown tornvary in content, scale, distribution in space, and their role in the hobby. The personal libraries arerncharacterized as small, medium or large and case studies of each extreme are presented. Larger PCLsrnare cast as a bibliographic pyramid distributed throughout the home in the form of a mother lode, zone,rnrecipe collection, and binder.rnPractical implications - Insights are provided into three areas: scientific ethnography as arnmethodology; a theory of documents in the hobby; and the changing role of information professionalsrngiven the increasing prevalence of home-based information collections.rnOriginality/value - This project provides an original conceptual framework and research methodrnfor the study of information in personal spaces such as the home, and describes informationrnphenomena in a popular, serious leisure, hobby setting.