Promoting transformative encounters in libraries and archives

What is it about?

In several existing studies of Information Encountering (IE), a recurring sub-phenomenon of serendipity arises that indicates the potential for certain unexpected encounters with information to be transformative. I will label this sub-phenomenon Transformative Information Encountering (TIE), deriving its definition from an application of Transformative Education theory to existing understandings of IE. I will discuss the potential for librarians and archivists to promote TIE through everyday practices.

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