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Assessing Libraries’ Community Roles. Proof of Concept

verfasst von : Helena Lipkova, Tomas Diviak, Adela Jarolimkova, Barbora Drobikova, Hana Landova

Erschienen in: Information Literacy in Everyday Life

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

An essential condition for a public library’s fulfilling its community role is a thorough understanding of its position in the local social network. The approaches used by libraries so far are based on partial, intuitive forms of assessment. In our study, we prove that the analysis of such networks can be based on a theoretically, as well as methodologically, rigorous approach. This article outlines the possibilities of using - Social Network Analysis (SNA) - in the field of library and information science (LIS). The main contribution of this study is the pilot verification of SNA in a local library in a small-town environment, in this case the town of Sedlčany located in Central Bohemia (population: 7,000). The SNA was applied using basic descriptive measures within the sociocentric approach and subsequently compared to the results of the subjective, intuitive self-assessment of the egocentric network by the library staff.

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There are many more network concepts and measures. We present only those which we use in our analysis based on standard introductory texts [1214] as well as intermediary ones [15]. Interested readers should consider these for further reference.
 
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Sedlčany is a town of approx. 7,000 residents near the border between Central and Southern Bohemia. The town is far enough away from Prague that local life is not impacted by what is happening in the capital. Sedlčany is also known for its rich community life.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Assessing Libraries’ Community Roles. Proof of Concept
verfasst von
Helena Lipkova
Tomas Diviak
Adela Jarolimkova
Barbora Drobikova
Hana Landova
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_8