An Analysis of Spatial Accessibility Changes According to the Attractiveness Index of Public Libraries Using Social Media Data

Abstract

Public libraries provide equitable access to information for all citizens, and they play an important role in preserving and promoting culture, formal education and self-education, and enriching leisure time. Accordingly, there has been an increasing amount of research on the use factors and accessibility of public libraries, but research on the accessibility of public libraries in non-Western cities is insufficient compared to the corresponding research on other public facilities. In particular, in high-density cities such as Seoul, the Republic of Korea, it may be desirable in terms of sustainability to focus on the qualitative, rather than the quantitative, expansion of public libraries. In previous studies, the attractive factors on the supply side were analyzed using questionnaire surveys, but in this study, the attractive factors for users were quantified in the form of the library attraction index by means of user-generated contents such as location-based social media, and the accessibility was analyzed based on this. The results showed that many public libraries have high accessibility, with a high library attraction index. Therefore, these findings indicate that the qualitative expansion of public libraries is important for information equality. It is meaningful that this study analyzed the attractive factors on the supply side by analyzing the contents generated by users.

Rethinking the External Space of Japanese Public Libraries from the Perspective of Urban Sustainability in a Post-Pandemic Era

“…As early as 2004, Igari, Nakade, and Higuchi showed that library utilization in inaccessible suburban areas was affected by traffic, suggesting the development of linked facilities and centralized management [27]. Kim's study also proved that the attractiveness of libraries comes not only from materials or information, but also from spatial conditions, such as the relationship with the surrounding environment and accessibility [28]. Therefore, although libraries are necessary in cities, the sustainable operation of public libraries and their spatial relationship with the city is an issue that needs to be considered.…”

Investigating social media spatiotemporal transferability for transport

“…Chaniotakis et al (2016) have provided a comprehensive review of the directions that transportation-related Social Media research is positioned. In short, the directions that the literature takes are either the use of Social Media for modeling and forecasting purposes, including an aspect of the use of Social Media data for OD Estimation (Liao et al, 2021;Osorio-Arjona and García-Palomares, 2019), Attraction Models (Lee et al, 2019;Yang et al, 2018;Hu and Jin, 2018), activity modelling (Cui et al, 2018;Chaniotakis et al, 2017;Hasan and Ukkusuri, 2018;Lee et al, 2016), extraction of mobility-related and spatial characteristics (Ebrahimpour et al, 2020;Hu et al, 2020;Kim et al, 2018;Yao et al, 2018;Yang et al, 2019) transportation-related sentiment analysis (Rahman et al, 2021;Bakalos et al, 2020;Sari et al, 2019;Ali et al, 2018Ali et al, , 2019, prediction and event detection (Chaturvedi et al, 2021;Yao and Qian, 2021;Alomari et al, 2019Alomari et al, , 2021Zulfikar et al, 2019;Zhang et al, 2018;Xu et al, 2018;Pereira et al, 2015), and accessibility analysis with the complementary use of Twitter data (Kim and Lee, 2021;Qian et al, 2020;Moyano et al, 2018). On another perspective, social media have also been used mainly from transport providers, for the direct communication that their platform allow with the end users (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2021).…”