Reach Out! Highlighting Collections and Expanding Outreach to Non-Traditional Communities across Academia

Beene, Stephanie; Jackson, Amy; Kostelecky, Sarah; Quinn, Todd

doi:10.1080/02763877.2018.1547891

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“…Horrigan, 2015), but interest and investment in community outreach activities are also well documented (e.g. Beene et al, 2019). In similar ways, the study participants describe the PULINET libraries as attuned to working with and for the interests and needs of their local communities outside university campuses and in tandem with existing public libraries.…”

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Representational work and ‘reverse order’ essentialism: Digitisation of local information in Thailand and Bhabha’s Third Space

Johansson

Nonthacumjane

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The Local Information Working Group (LIWG) of Thailand’s provincial university libraries holds main responsibility for digitising Thai local information (LI), a resource that shares many characteristics with what in other contexts is described as Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK). This study therefore explores how the digitisation activities of the LIWG correlate with claims of culturally responsive and responsible ILK representation, and how this work can be understood through the perspective of Bhabha’s Third Space. The study is based on interviews with 23 LIWG members, collected in 2016–2017. A guided, qualitative content analysis focused on uncovering themes of digitisation tools and methods with Third Space relevance as supporting or hindering essentialism, fixity and hybridity in LI representations. The findings illustrate that whereas the digitisation itself, field studies, language choices and outreach activities offer certain Third Space potential, this is underdeveloped and largely circumstantial. Third Space potentials are further likely to be restricted or hindered by uneven distribution of internet access, digital literacy, standard Thai proficiency and university/academic library accessibility among the Thai public in general and LI holders in particular. Overall, marginalised groups are excluded, and LI holders are positioned as passive contributors and recipients of digitised LI, suggesting a reversed sort of ‘self-essentialism’ on behalf of the dominant culture. In conclusion, two aspects in particular require further attention for libraries engaging with digitisation of ILK types of resources: the inclusion of national, societal level participation into participatory approaches; and the incorporation of functionalities for user interaction, holistic knowledge representation, multiple languages and cultural protocols into ICT for representation and use. The study provides a unique application of Third Space as analytical perspective on library digitisation of LI/ILK types of resources. Methodologically, the study is case specific, limited to a cross-section in time, and to data from interview accounts of LIWG members.

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Representational work and ‘reverse order’ essentialism: Digitisation of local information in Thailand and Bhabha’s Third Space

Johansson

Nonthacumjane

2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…In recent years, library workers have provided services or outreach in residence halls, including hosting craft programs (Miller 2015, 11), offering makerspace tools and services (Shivley, Jarrell, and Denton 2018), and scheduling librarians to staff or live in residence halls (Long 2011;Ruediger and Neal 2004;Schmehl Hines 2007;Strothmann and Antell 2010;Tag, Buck, and Mautino 2005;Tran 2014). Several other authors describe various library outreach efforts in student housing (Barnes and Payton 2007;Beene et al 2019;Bishop 2018;Nicholas et al 2015;Riehle and Witt 2009;Ursin Cummings 2007), all of which attracted low student participation. These housing-based library outreach efforts, despite their unpopularity, illustrate the recent trend of embedding library outreach efforts in residence halls and other student-centered spaces on college campuses (Rudin 2008, 60;Strothmann and Antell 2010, 48).…”

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“Make it more fun”: Residence life employees' insights on hosting and advertising outreach programs for undergraduate students

Shuyler

2022

JLOE

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What can library workers learn about student-centered programming and outreach from student employees who design, advertise, and lead programs for college students as part of their employment in a student housing or residence life department? This study draws on cognitive work analysis to understand how employees of the Office of Residence Life (ORL) at a public research university host outreach programs for students. Fourteen interviews were conducted and analyzed to ascertain the definition and purpose of RA-led programming, challenges in this work, and strategies for overcoming challenges. Findings indicate that as these student employees do their programming work, they build community while meeting ORL’s requirements, assess students’ needs, design relevant or fun programs, and advertise programs in multiple ways. This study offers recommendations for program planners in libraries and extends the literature on co-curricular programming, offering detail from student employees’ perspectives.

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“The pop-up exhibitrary”: collaborative library outreach for performing arts audiences

Abbazio,

Majewicz,

Ultan

2023

Public Services Quarterly

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Reach Out! Highlighting Collections and Expanding Outreach to Non-Traditional Communities across Academia

Cited by 4 publications

References 28 publications

Representational work and ‘reverse order’ essentialism: Digitisation of local information in Thailand and Bhabha’s Third Space

Representational work and ‘reverse order’ essentialism: Digitisation of local information in Thailand and Bhabha’s Third Space

“Make it more fun”: Residence life employees' insights on hosting and advertising outreach programs for undergraduate students

“The pop-up exhibitrary”: collaborative library outreach for performing arts audiences

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