Hybrid placemaking in the library: designing digital technology to enhance users' on-site experience

Bilandzic, Mark

doi:10.1080/00049670.2013.845073

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“…The concept of library without walls has been mooted in the past decade to extend the library services irrespective of their physical locations [ 9 , 10 ]. With the advances of IT and innovation in book formats like e-books, this was predicted that physical libraries are soon going to die out.…”

Section: Emerging Roles Of Library In the Age Of Information Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional library reforms are needed to improve ayurveda education, practice and research: Inferences from a case study

Rastogi

Sharma

Varma

et al. 2021

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

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Libraries have always been the integral components of the academic institutions world over. Earlier known for housing the spectrum of books permitting their ready access to knowledge seekers, libraries of current age are no more confined spaces with limited functions. With the advancing information technology, the conventional definition of a library is changing to accommodate newer roles and challenges. Twenty-first century academic libraries are extending beyond the walls of their individual institutions and are evolving as open access information spaces, dealing with intelligent sharing through social communication and networking technologies. Despite such massive changes in the information storage and retrieval patterns across the globe, libraries at Ayurveda institutions in India seem by and large unbothered and unaffected. Poor educational and research standards in Ayurveda seem to have direct links with libraries contributing minimally to academic exchange and progress. An SCONUL survey conducted for the first time in any ayurvedic library setting in the country came as an eye opener stating clearly that Ayurveda institutional libraries require a major reform first to bring them at par with other academic libraries and subsequently to evolve them as the nucleus of knowledge fostering. These setups direly need a hand of help to become eligible for contributing what they are really meant to.

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Section: Emerging Roles Of Library In the Age Of Information Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional library reforms are needed to improve ayurveda education, practice and research: Inferences from a case study

Rastogi

Sharma

Varma

et al. 2021

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine

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“…Blewitt (2014), Cardenas, Lopez & Landeros (2016) can be placed within the same research tradition. Bilandzic and Johnson (2013) discuss hybrid placemaking, planning library spaces where digital technologies are used not only to make library services available digitally but to improve the library as a physical place, thereby enhancing the users' experience. Söderholm & Nolin (2015) are also preoccupied with the library's role in community development, but not so much its role in signaling the qualities and attractiveness of the community to the external world.…”

Section: Libraries As Places Promoting Community Democracy and Sociamentioning

confidence: 99%

Public libraries as an infrastructure for a sustainable public sphere

Audunson

Aabø

Blomgren

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the shaping of public libraries as an infrastructure for a sustainable public sphere through a comprehensive literature review. Design/methodology/approach In order to capture the whole picture of this research field, we utilize comprehensive review methodology. The major research questions are: first, to what extent have research topics regarding libraries as public sphere institutions expanded and diversified? Which theoretical perspectives inform research? Second, which challenges and topics does the research focus upon, such as: social inclusion and equal access to information; digital inequalities; censorship and freedom of expression; and access to places and spaces with a democratic potential and the role of libraries in that respect? Third, what influence has social media exerted on libraries in the context of the expanding digital world? Findings The authors identified mainly four themes regarding the public library and public sphere, such as: the importance of public libraries by using Habermas’s theory; the function of meeting places within the public library and setting those places in the center of the library in order to enhance and encourage democracy; the relationship between social inclusion and public libraries and its functions in current society such as diminishing the digital divide; and the emerging electronic resources and arena of SNS in public libraries and utilizing them to reach citizens. Originality/value Capturing the recent history of this research field through comprehensive review is valuable.

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“…'The future of public libraries lies firmly in continuing to provide physical and virtual spaces for people to engage with learning, ideas, literature and most importantly, each other' (SLQ, 2013). Bilandzic and Johnson (2013) proposed two distinct models for augmenting the permeability of physical space with digital technologies: Commons 2.0 draws from design discourses and involves refashioning the library space to accommodate different modes of use. Bookshelves are replaced with couches, lounge areas and cafes.…”

Section: Redistributing Social Spacementioning

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Libraries as redistributive technology: From capacity to culture in Queensland’s public library network

Wyatt

McQuire

Butt

2017

New Media & Society

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Australia is currently rolling out one of the most expensive and ambitious infrastructure projects in the nation’s history. The National Broadband Network is promoted as a catalyst for far-reaching changes in Australia’s economy, governmental service provision, society and culture. However, it is evident that desired dividends, such as greater social engagement, enhanced cultural awareness and increased civic and political participation, do not flow automatically from mere technical connection to the network. This article argues that public institutions play a vital role in redistributing technological capacity to enable emerging forms of social and cultural participation. In particular, we examine public libraries as significant but often overlooked sites in the evolving dynamic between digital technology, new cultural practices and social relations. Drawing on interviews and fieldwork across the public library network of the state of Queensland, we attend to the strategies and approaches libraries are adopting in response to a digital culture.

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Hybrid placemaking in the library: designing digital technology to enhance users' on-site experience

Cited by 32 publications

References 50 publications

Institutional library reforms are needed to improve ayurveda education, practice and research: Inferences from a case study

Institutional library reforms are needed to improve ayurveda education, practice and research: Inferences from a case study

Public libraries as an infrastructure for a sustainable public sphere

Libraries as redistributive technology: From capacity to culture in Queensland’s public library network

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