Document Type
Book Chapter
Department or Administrative Unit
Library
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
A decade ago, libraries began to reimagine their roles from traditional institutions of knowledge storehouses and repositories to social organisms of growth. With the advent of social media and an ever-increasing demand for information, today’s users request more flexible spaces for a variety of uses including the traditional library, but also for e-government services, information literacy education, social liaisons, gaming, safe and neutral spaces for all kinds of public discourse and a host of other societal projects for all ages. An outstanding study of the library as place was captured a decade ago by John Buschman and Gloria Leckie.[i]
This chapter discusses how a depository librarian, administrator, and a lover of libraries reimagines the library space as a service point to become the community center with the lens of a depository collection
[i] John E. Buschman. The Library as Place. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
Recommended Citation
Quinn, A.C. (2017). Visualizing space, your depository as place. In S. Caro (Ed.), Government information essentials (pp.39-46). ALA Editions.
Comments
Includes illustrations, planning document, and best practices