Public Library: A place for the digital community archive

This article explores the possibility that public libraries can be repositories for digital community archives. The overarching goal is to establish a case for public libraries’ developing digital community archives that are participatory and which emphasize born-digital items rather than digitized physical items. This discussion follows my own research and experience in this area to include personal information management, social media and the personal archive, and the accidental community archive, and demonstrates that public libraries can focus on communities’ current events and people rather than solely on those from the past

Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections: An Introduction. By Vicki L. Gregory

Review of Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections: An Introduction. By Vicki L. Gregory

A Narrative History of Resource Sharing in the State of Maryland

This post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of the article submitted to IUPUI ScholarWorks as part of the OASIS Project. Article reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Permission granted through posted policies on copyright owner’s website or through direct contact with copyright owner.The evolution of statewide resource sharing and reciprocal borrowing for Maryland public libraries is discussed. Beginning in the 1950s, the Enoch Pratt Free Library assumed responsibility for filling interlibrary loan requests or the state due to the size of its collection. In 1971, Pratt became the State Library Resource Center and its interlibrary loan responsibilities became formalized. Through a series of technological advancements in library catalogs and interlibrary loan systems, Maryland has arrived at the MARINA system to facilitate sharing resources throughout the state. The state has a long-standing philosophy of cooperation, which makes the MARINA endeavor possible

Review of the book From Fear to Flow: Personality and information interaction, by Jannica Heinström.

Through the theoretical lens of Costa and McCrae's 5-factor model of personality, Heinström provides an exploration of the research on the influence of personality on information seeking and use. She successfully brings together research from a variety of domains with an emphasis on psychology and social psychology. The book places equal emphasis on describing personality traits and, as it does, the information behaviors relevant to each trait. The works cited from information behavior research are not treated comprehensively, but rather selectively to illustrate the influence of particular personality trait associated with specific information behaviors. Information behavior researchers might consider From Fear to Flow a companion o

The Bethel AME Church Archive: Partners and Participants

Community archives have proven vital for giving a voice to underrepresented groups. Formal institutional archives have traditionally represented the dominant narrative in society and continue to do so, excluding access to cultural records and artifacts of underrepresented groups. Well-funded cultural heritage institutions have the infrastructures of support to provide long-term preservation and access on a global scale. Connecting community archives to this infrastructure of support is the overarching goal of my research (Copeland, 2015). How to make that connection in a way that respects the community and the purpose of the archive remains to be determined. This chapter will detail my journey with one particular community and its archive

Understanding social impact of data on local communities

• Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the social impact of data on communities from cases of community data utilization. • Design/methodology/approach: This study took an interpretive qualitative approach and conducted a semi-structured phone interview with 45 participants from data intermediaries and local community organizations. • Findings: The results demonstrate both direct and indirect impact of data on local levels, including resolving local problems from data-driven decisions, realizing unknown problems or correcting misrepresented problems, changing community data practices, strengthening community identity, and enhancing the community’s data skills • Practical implications: The research shows that communities’ data utilization supported community-led actions and initiatives from the bottom-up perspective, which demonstrates the need for supporting communities’ data work. • Social implications: Minimizing inequality in data utilization should be resolved so that all communities can benefit from the power of data. • Originality/value: By demonstrating evidence of data being critical to encouraging communities’ data utilization, this study fills the gap in existing research, which lacks a clear explanation for how the potential of data can be realized at the local level.IML

Public libraries’ service model for community open data engagement

While there has been a growing interest in open data utilization in community context, previous research pointed out that individuals’ participation in open data is low due to the various difficulties and lack of support. Public libraries are an essential role in citizen’s engagement with open data but they need resources and professional networks to guide them to initiate, organize, explain, and promote data services to their communities. Addressing this gap, this research aims to create a research-driven theoretical model for public libraries' open data engagement, named mCODE (the model for Community Open Data Engagement). The mCODE is unique in that it emphasizes the local context and community engagement, reflecting public libraries' strong position to address the place-based needs of their communities