Greg Bem: Occupying Everyday Spaces

Occupying Everyday Places

Keeping an Eye on Physical Information Sources Where They

Typically Exist

Disclaimer 1

• You will be exposed to the inner-workings of my house.

Disclaimer 2

• People organize stuff.• People need and seek and obtain and use

information.– See LIS 510.

• People use organized information.– See LIS 530 for the why.

The Tour: Bedroom

The Tour: Bedroom

The Tour: Bedroom

The Tour: Upstairs Hall

The Tour: Stairs

The Tour: Dining Area

The Tour: Kitchen Counter

The Tour: Fridge

The Tour: Kitchen

The Tour: Living Room

The Tour: Studio

The Tour: Front Porch

The Tour: Back Patio

Topic Statement• In everyday life, people are having intimate relationships

with their information-bearing objects. We keep these objects close to us in ways corresponding with their use-value and use-mode (medium).

• We as information professionals and future library leaders should be aware of how our spaces we invite people to use can be conducive to those visitors’ habits. Discovering how each user physically and emotionally uses that information in various objects will allow opportunities for innovation and evolution in design and experience. Obviously.

• But: look to your own lives because you are a visitor too.