« Ah c’est vous qui êtes là pour dire que le CD va mourir ? » : la souffrance des bibliothécaires au cœur du régime numérique

• Main Author: Miriam Odoni
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2017-05-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: library; applied research; digital; work; music; public service
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/6104

This article offers an analysis of a previous field experiment conducted in a municipal library, mandated following the library’s reorganization. The changes implemented in the library were carried out through violent hierarchical confrontations, in which I found myself embroiled when carrying out this mandated research. On one side were the librarians who suspected me of siding with the management, and on the other the library management who made me the scape goat in this crisis. This article demonstrates how the conditions of an investigation, along with the expectations of those who order it, can hinder its achievement, and poses the question of what underlying stakes and interests there are to conducting applied research.