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Modelling community engagement in public libraries
journal contribution
posted on 2013-09-10, 12:00 authored by Hui-Yun Sung, Mark HepworthThis paper explores core concepts relating to community engagement in public libraries. It offers a new conceptual framework to help understand collaborative, productive relationships between information service providers and service users. Fundamental to this framework are two underlying variables of ‘influence of authority’ and ‘willingness to learn’. This paper explores these variables and related elements that were shown to influence the success of community engagement in public libraries in the United Kingdom. The study has developed a model of essential elements of community engagement in public libraries, as a first step towards systematic research in this area. This paper focuses on the implications for practice and suggests a community engagement model that is grounded in the reality and perceptions of the community and the participants, rather than only from an institutional perspective.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Information Science
Citation
SUNG, H.-Y. and HEPWORTH, M., 2013. Modelling community engagement in public libraries. Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science, 18 (1), pp. 1 - 13.Publisher
University of MalayaVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publication date
2013Notes
This article was published in the serial Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science [© University of Malaya].ISSN
1394-6234Publisher version
Language
- en