In the Search of Community : From Recognition to Exploration of Information Needs

LORENZ, Michal and Tomáš ŠTEFEK. In the Search of Community : From Recognition to Exploration of Information Needs. In The 16TH CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Conference, Monash University Prato Centre, 24-26 October 2018. 2018.

Basic information

Original name

In the Search of Community : From Recognition to Exploration of Information Needs

Name in Czech

Hledání komunity : Od identifikace k průzkumu informačních potřeb

Authors

LORENZ, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Tomáš ŠTEFEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

The 16TH CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Conference, Monash University Prato Centre, 24-26 October 2018, 2018

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50803 Information science

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

Stránky výzkumné sítě CIRN

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/18:00106058

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

Identifikace komunity; informační potřeby komunity; komunitní knihovna; sociální inovace; design služeb

Keywords in English

Community identification; Community information needs; Community library; Social innovations; Service design

Tags

rivok

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

One of the social roles that libraries are starting to systematically meet, is community role. In the project Social Innovation in libraries, we help community-oriented libraries to design socially innovative services to address urgent civil problems. But these services cannot be designed ad hoc, they must be tailored to the needs and with the help of the communities. Because needy communities are very often non-administered communities, their members are library non-users however. This means that librarians have to leave the walls of libraries and search for the needy communities in the field. In our paper, we focus on technique librarians and others can use to identify communities and explore their needs, including information needs and information practices. Identifying communities and analysis of their needs is a prerequisite for the service design process and implementation of social innovation in community libraries.