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Public Library

2022
The image is from “Monuments of Memories for Our Times” series which is made with a dedicated consideration to the complexities inherent to the “monument.” In “public Library,” Sung explores documenting vacant community infrastructure as monument of current times to archive the impact of Covid-19.
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Building A Contemporary Public Library Through Community Engagement: A Personal Journey

Public Library Quarterly, 2020
This article discusses how a broad understanding of community engagement has influenced the conception, realization, and services of one of the most internationally lauded modern public libraries, Dokk1, opened in 2015 in Aarhus, Denmark.
R. Hapel
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Public Libraries

2016
The author, as part of a Master Thesis study, analyzes the impact public library services and programs have in the lives of local Mexican mothers with children attending school in the United States and provides suggestions on ways to improve outreach of services and support.
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Library Publications

Library Review, 1973
This long awaited and welcome publication fills a gap in our comparative librarianship literature. The author, who has been associated with the subject for a number of years, analyses existing writings, draws on the experience of other comparative disciplines and puts forward some personal views with the aim to ‘describe and demonstrate deficiencies ...
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The Public Library as a Protective Factor: An Introduction to Library Social Work

Public Library Quarterly, 2019
Libraries from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. are now employing or housing social workers. As this practice area grows, it is reshaping the way that libraries assist their patrons. Though the work of individual library social workers vary depending on
P. Lloyd
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Evaluating a Public Library Makerspace

Public Library Quarterly, 2019
This study explores how one public library assesses the outcomes of a makerspace and examines whether the approaches taken can be justified as appropriate. An increasing number of public libraries throughout the world are establishing makerspaces, and to
Pia Margaret Gahagan, P. Calvert
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Public Library Users: Perspectives of Socially Vulnerable Populations

Journal of Library Administration, 2019
Modern public libraries strive for inclusivity. Part of this effort involves enhancing staff capacity for engaging with socially vulnerable populations.
S. Richter   +5 more
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Settling in: how newcomers use a public library

Library Management, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe how recent immigrants and refugees to Canada (“newcomers”) use the facilities of a large, urban public library.
J. Shepherd   +2 more
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Public libraries

Aslib Proceedings, 1978
In assessing the results of Judith Collins's questionnaire it should perhaps be noted that less than 50 per cent of respondents claimed to spend all or most of their time ‘dealing with economic or business or commercial information’. One can only speculate whether a higher proportion of full‐time business librarians would have revealed a greater degree
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