Community resilience and the role of the public library

D Grace, B Sen - Library trends, 2013 - muse.jhu.edu
Communities face increasing threats from disasters precipitated by climate change,
biodiversity loss, and energy and food insecurity. In the face of such threats, communities …

Public libraries' role in supporting Ukrainian refugees: A focus on Hungary and Poland

J Johnston, A Mierzecka, M Tóth… - … of Librarianship and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 led to Europe's largest displacement of
people since World War II, with significant substantial numbers of Ukrainian refugees …

Cultural policy, the public sphere, and public libraries: a comparison of Norwegian, American, and Japanese models

MM Widdersheim, M Koizumi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study compares cultural policy, public libraries, and the public sphere in Norway, the
United States, and Japan. Results of the comparison indicate that Norway emphasizes …

Paradoxical autonomy in cultural organisations: an analysis of changing relations between cultural organisations and their institutional environment, with examples …

N Kann-Rasmussen… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This article analyses the changing relationships between cultural organisations and their
institutional environment. Cultural policy research has traditionally focused on a decline in …

Librarians on User Participation in Five European Countries/Perspectives de bibliothécaires sur la participation des utilisateurs dans cinq pays européens

I Huvila - Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 2020 - muse.jhu.edu
This study reports the results from an international survey of library professionals and
investigates cross-national variation of their attitudes towards user participation and its role …

Volunteer-based IT Helpdesks as Ambiguous Quasi-Public Services-a Case Study from Two Nordic Countries

C Christensen, N Ehrenberg, J Christiansson… - Nordic Human …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In this case study we take a Nordic perspective on the tension between increased
digitalisation of public services and the insufficient support for citizens with limited digital …

Legitimacy for large public libraries in the digital age

V Waller - Library Review, 2008 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse recent developments in the
relationship of large public libraries with digital technologies, suggesting a way of rethinking …

[PDF][PDF] STRATEGIJSKI PLAN RAZVOJA KNJIŽNICA: S POSEBNIM OSVRTOM NA ZADAĆE NACIONALNE I SVEUČILIŠNE KNJIŽNICE U ZAGREBU.

Z Majstorović, V Čelić-Tica, J Leščić - Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske, 2013 - core.ac.uk
STRATeGIJSKI PLAn RAZVOJA KnJIžnIcA : S POSeBnIM OSVRTOM nA ZAdAće nAcIOnALne
I SVeUČILIŠne KnJIžnIce U ZAGReBU THE STRATEG Page 1 35 STRATeGIJSKI PLAn …

Opioid consumer health information literacies in Alabama's public libraries: an exploratory website content analysis

B Mehra, BS Jaber - Roles and responsibilities of libraries in …, 2020 - emerald.com
The acceleration of Opioid deaths over the last decade has made it a serious national public
health crisis. Alabama has not been immune to this epidemic, with dramatically increased …

[HTML][HTML] Designing a conceptual model of public libraries as community centers based on the public sphere theory of Jürgen Habermas

MR Shekari, A Navah, I Hashemi - Research on Information Science and …, 2022 - publij.ir
Purpose: The aim of this study is to achieve a conceptual model for the transformation of
Iranian public libraries into social centers, based on the theory of the public sphere of Jürgen …