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(2019) Information literacy in everyday life, Dordrecht, Springer.
Assessing libraries' community roles
proof of concept
Helena Lipkova , Tomas Diviak , Adela Jarolimkova , Barbora Drobikova , Hana Landova
pp. 83-93
An essential condition for a public library's fulfilling its community role is a thorough understanding of its position in the local social network. The approaches used by libraries so far are based on partial, intuitive forms of assessment. In our study, we prove that the analysis of such networks can be based on a theoretically, as well as methodologically, rigorous approach. This article outlines the possibilities of using - Social Network Analysis (SNA) - in the field of library and information science (LIS). The main contribution of this study is the pilot verification of SNA in a local library in a small-town environment, in this case the town of Sedlčany located in Central Bohemia (population: 7,000). The SNA was applied using basic descriptive measures within the sociocentric approach and subsequently compared to the results of the subjective, intuitive self-assessment of the egocentric network by the library staff.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_8
Full citation:
Lipkova, H. , Diviak, T. , Jarolimkova, A. , Drobikova, B. , Landova, H. (2019)., Assessing libraries' community roles: proof of concept, in S. Kurbanolu, J. Boustany, E. Grassian, D. Mizrachi & L. Roy (eds.), Information literacy in everyday life, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 83-93.
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