Purpose This study aims to examine the imagining of libraries and the depiction of library services in contemporary … science fiction novels. Analyses of libraries in contemporary science fiction may reveal expectations of libraries and the …/methodology/approach This research applied a content analysis approach to examine references to libraries in a purposeful sample of science …

libraries. From a contemporary survey on public libraries, we construct a unique dataset on municipalities which received … existing libraries. We show that the innovation advantage also persisted in the long run and had no impact on human capital. …

Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in Cologne, Germany. The motto of the conference was “Bridging Worlds” and was run as a … fully hybrid event. Ten papers covering all aspects of Digital Libraries, namely Natural Language Processing, Information …

libraries. From a contemporary survey on public libraries, we construct a unique dataset on municipalities which received … existing libraries. We show that the innovation advantage also persisted in the long run and had no impact on human capital. …

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to produce new knowledge about the positions that public libraries both take and …. Using conflicts over drag story hour at public libraries as case, the study seeks to contribute to an emerging body of … research that delves into the challenges that public libraries as promoters of democracy are confronting in the conflictual …

conducted at four different hospital libraries in four different regions in Sweden between March and May 2022. The empirical … information resilience used in this study is well suited for studying the resilience of libraries from both organisational and …

Purpose As social infrastructures, public libraries are increasingly recognised as providing more than access to books … participant observations. Findings The empirical analysis resulted in three modes of social infrastructuring in public libraries … librarians’ infrastructuring enactments as crucial community-building aspects of libraries. Originality/value By focusing on the …

This study explored corporate social responsibility practices in selected public libraries in south-west and north … from a total of fifteen (15) participants. The study found that the public libraries do not have written CSR policy …. Results showed that the public libraries engaged in social support, social change, socio-cultural activities, and COVID-19 …