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Research on Serious Leisure & the Hobby of Cooking

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Posters
	Enthusiasts and their Documents: A Case Study in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking Poster at the ALISE 2008 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
	Three Temporal Arcs in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking: Implications for Information Behavior A web-based version of my poster from the ALISE 2007 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington; and its Handout (Microsoft Word Document); and the original poster board. Also: an article about this lecture in CASLIS by Robyn Stockan; and a flyer (PDF) announcing the lecture.
	Cooking Up a Home Library Poster at the ALISE 2006 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.
	Metatheoretical Snowmen (the poster) A web-based version of my poster from the ALISE 2005 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.
Conference Presentations & Invited Lectures
	Metatheoretical Snowmen (the panel) ~ (PDF of panel proposal) Panel at the 2009 ASIST Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC.
	Toward a Positive Information Science? (abstract) Panel at the 2009 ASIST Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC.
	The Serious Leisure Perspective: Implications for Public Libraries Presentation at the Reference Renaissance Conference in Denver, Colorado, August 2008.
	The Office: Integrating Perspectives Across Information Science Panel at the 2008 ASIST Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio.
	Snap Happy Research: Conducting a Photographic Inventory of Information Space Workshop at the Connections Doctoral Student Conference, May 2006, Syracuse University.
	Information Activities and Resources in an Episode of Gourmet Cooking (abstract). A paper and presentation at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference (2006) at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia (full text available in Information Research, October 2006).
	Serious Leisure + Visual Research = The Culinary Home Library (A Recipe for the Study of Everyday Life Information Phenomena) Invited Lecture at the University of Michigan's iSchool, February 14, 2006.
	Taking Leisure Seriously: Information Realities in Leisure Time A Panel at the Annual Meeting (2006) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Austin, Texas, USA, November 3-8.
	Castles & Inverted Castles: The Work of Marcia J. Bates Panel Presentation at the ALISE Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, January 2005 PowerPoint Presentation available at dLIST.
Miscellanous Publications and Projects
	Dissertation: Information Activities, Resources, and Spaces in the Hobby of Gourmet Cooking.
	Mentions of my work in The New York Times Magazine's online Freakonomics blog, see #7 and an article in the weekly food section of the Colorado Springs' Gazette (May 2, 2007).
	The Serious Leisure Perspective A website created with sociologist Robert A. Stebbins, based upon his idea of Serious Leisure, a framework applied in my dissertation.
	Marian Wolfe's Cooking Library at the Flying W Ranch in Colorado Springs Case study of a Personal Culinary Library.
	LIS Cooks A listing of library and information studies people with culinary research interests (a work in progress).
	Sample of Papers from coursework in the doctoral program in UCLA's Department of Information Studies (2001-2004).