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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/119275| Title: | The public library’s enduring importance |
| Other Titles: | Minds alive : libraries and archives now |
| Authors: | Kosciejew, Marc |
| Keywords: | Public libraries -- Social aspects -- 21st century Public services (Libraries) -- Social aspects -- 21st century Public libraries -- Aims and objectives Libraries and society -- 21st century Public libraries -- Space utilization |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Citation: | Kosciejew, M. (2020). The public library’s enduring importance. In P. Demers, & T. Samek (Eds.), Minds Alive: Libraries and Archives Now (pp. 35-47). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. |
| Abstract: | The public library is an important and vital public place. It is one of the few public places remaining today that provides free and open spaces and equitable opportunities for educational and intellectual nourishment, creative and cultural promotion, communal and social engagement, and economic development. As Gloria Leckie and Jeffrey Hopkins argue, “public life is produced and reproduced by social practices that transpire in specific places – public places – and the library is certainly one of those enduring and successful public places”. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/119275 |
| ISBN: | 9781487531881 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacMKSLIAS |
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