The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science

Purpose The term diverse books is increasingly popular yet persistently nebulous. The purpose of this paper – Part I of II – is to illuminate both that the concept is in need of a unified account and that conceptual analysis, though at first seemingly quite promising, fails as a method for identifying one. Design/methodology/approach This paper utilizes traditional (or intuitive) conceptual analysis to specify the respective clusters of...