The Future of the Public Library
Reimagining the Moral Economy of the ‘People's University’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12928810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Blewitt (0000-0003-3157-7921, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 106-116 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Power and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7438 • E-ISSN: 1757-7438 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2304/power.2012.4.1.106 |
| OpenAlex | W2145452397 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
New media technologies, the digitisation of information, learning archives and heritage resources are changing the nature of the public library and museums services across the globe, and, in so doing, changing the way present and future users of these services interact with these institutions in real and virtual spaces. New digital technologies are rewriting the nature of participation, learning and engagement with the public library, and fashioning a new paradigm where virtual and physical spaces and educative and temporal environments operate symbiotically. It is with such a creatively disruptive paradigm that the £193 million Library of Birmingham project in the United Kingdom is being developed. New and old media forms and platforms are helping to fashion new public places and spaces that reaffirm the importance of public libraries as conceived in the nineteenth century. As people's universities, the public library service offers a web of connective learning opportunities and affordances. This article considers the importance of community libraries as sites of intercultural understanding and practical social democracy. Their significance is reaffirmed through the initial findings in the first of a series of community interventions forming part of a long-term project, ‘Connecting Spaces and Places’, funded by the Royal Society of Arts
Affordance · Democracy · Globe · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · The arts · Computer Science · Library Science and Administration · Library Science and Information Literacy · Web and Library Services
The great good place
Mobile Lives
Living the Global City
No sense of peace
Atlas of emotion
Unanticipated Gains
Meanings of Place
Towards a critical geography of architecture
The Corporate Colonization of Online Attention and the Marginalization of Critical Communication
Public Libraries and Social Capital in Three New York City Neighbourhoods
The production of space
Ageographia, Heterotopia, and Vancouver's New Public Library
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century
The Complexities of the Global
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2020 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |