Library as platform: Embracing the generativity of public library space

Erickson, Ingrid

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Title

Library as platform: Embracing the generativity of public library space

Author(s)

Erickson, Ingrid

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Public library
• Urban
• Infrastructure
• Knowledge work
• Mobile worker

Abstract

Public libraries have a long legacy of serving the public via service provision, yet this poster argues that the library needs to be reconsidered for the generativity embedded in its physical space. Investigating the New York Public Library and Seattle Public Library as result of a study focused on mobile knowledge workers shows how the library is currently being used as a 1) space for productivity; 2) space for community building and sociality; 3) space for meeting; and 4) infrastructural space. Adopting this framework puts a new onus not only on designers (or renovators) of a library’s physical environments, but equally on those who help to establish the norms of practice in these spaces.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Ingrid Erickson

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