What is it about?
This paper proposes that to survive and thrive public libraries need to aim for a more active role in people’s lives and in the communities that surround them. It explores how this can be done and what effect this change might have on library space based on the ideas and perspective of the Dutch Ministry of Imagination.
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Why is it important?
This thought piece will not only be of interest to those concerned with public libraries, but to everyone who is searching for ways to turn the library into a learning environment in which a continuous process of knowledge creation takes place. Through interaction with the collection, but - most importantly - through interaction between people.
Perspectives
I am part of the Ministry of Imagination, a collaboration between architect Jan David Hanrath and librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and myself. Together we designed a new operating system for public libraries, based on the processes of inspiration, creation and participation and supported by matching criteria for the layout of library space. As our ideas are still evolving, we're very much open to comments and suggestions.
Mrs Joyce Sternheim
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This page is a summary of: I have to change to stay the same, New Library World, January 2016, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/nlw-09-2015-0061.
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