ResumenEl presente artículo sugiere un deslinde teórico de las nociones desarrollo local y desarrollo comunitario aplicadas al campo cultural. El objetivo es generar una reflexión en torno a la dimensión comunitaria del desarrollo cultural y las implicaciones que para ello tiene la participación en la gestión de los procesos culturales. Desde ese marco teórico se toman casos de estudio ilustrativos en España, Venezuela y Cuba. De esta manera se trata de plantear como solo a través de prácticas de gestión participativa de la cultura donde la comunidad sea tomada como componente esencial se da cumplimiento a la noción de democracia cultural. Palabras clave: Local, Comunitario, Participación, Estudio de casos AbstractThis article suggests a theoretical differentiation of the issues of local development and community development applied to culture. The objective is to generate a reflexion on the community character of cultural development and the implications that participation in the management in cultural processes has in it. From this theoretical framework key cases are taken from Spain, Venezuela and Cuba. Thus it is proposed that only through participative management of culture and taking the community as main component the notion of cultural democracy is done.

PurposeThis article presents a discussion of how librarians' engagement in certain social movements manifests itself in public libraries, how librarians justify their engagement with specifically the LGBT + movement and the climate movement and what it might entail in terms of legitimacy.Design/methodology/approachBesides an extensive international literature on libraries and climate/LGBT + issues, the article draws on data from an interview study with librarians from Denmark and Sweden. Theoretically, the article utilizes the orders of worth framework by French sociologists Boltanski and Thévenot. The framework is used to analyse librarians' justifications for engaging in certain agendas in society.FindingsActive engagement in social and green agendas takes place through strategies of education, efforts to make the cause more visible in the library and by setting an example. Justifications for active engagement in social movement agendas draw on inspirational, civic, projective and green orders of worth (OoW).Originality/valueMuch of the existing research on librarians who engage themselves in either climate issues or in agendas concerning minorities has a normative character. However, this study shows that there is no causal (positive or negative) relation between active engagement in social movements' causes and legitimacy of libraries, but that the justifications for doing so might have an impact on legitimacy.

Collections are no longer the main attraction in libraries, and libraries are working to find new paths to tread. One strategy is to focus on reading and literature in new and surprising ways. The aim of this article is to enrich an understanding of activities situated in the span between readers' advisory and audience development. This is achieved through an analysis of opinions and reflections expressed by 13 managers and librarians in all six county libraries in Denmark. The interviews are analysed through the model which merges three concepts: cultural policy, new public management and professional logics. Our findings show that Danish librarians' views on readers' advisory and audience development strike a balance between the experience and empowerment rationales with a prevailing focus on users. A user orientation and focus on user experiences have created a situation wherein the notions of passion, commitment, enthusiasm become central to the work of librarians who champion and manage these activities. However, this strategy has limitations related to the choice of content and intended user groups. Audience development, founded on dedication and experience, tends to cater for users who look and think like librarians.

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