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Social roles of digital libraries
Other Titles
Exploring Digital Libraries, Chapter 6
Abstract
This chapter of Exploring Digital Libraries examines the social value of digital libraries. It begins by exploring past and present understandings of the value of libraries to their communities. Taking a well-known framework that lays out libraries’ social roles as a starting point, the chapter then suggests a possible new framework to describe the social roles of digital libraries. The remainder of the chapter explicates this potential framework, exploring aspects of each social role. The sections offer examples, consider benefits and challenges, and draw attention to key readings from digital library researchers and practitioners.
Description
This is a preprint of a chapter whose final and definitive form was co-published in Exploring Digital Libraries: Foundations, Practice, Prospects by Facet Publishing (2014) and ALA Neal-Schuman (2014).
Date Issued
2013-09-16Publisher
Karen Calhoun
Subject
Libraries and community; Digital libraries--Aims and objectives; Information society; Libraries and the Internet; Digital divide; Digital preservation
Related Version
Calhoun, Karen. “Social roles of digital libraries.” In Exploring Digital Libraries: Foundations, Practice, Prospects. London: Facet Publishing; Chicago: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2014. ISBNs 9781856048200, 1856048209; 9781555709853, 1555709850.
Type
preprint