Bringing on the Social : Infrastructuring Libraries Through Zine-making Workshops
Engström, Lisa LU
and Rivano Eckerdal, Johanna
LU
(2024)
In Journal of Creative Library Practice
- Abstract
- Public libraries serve as social infrastructures that foster interpersonal connections and promote well-being and cohesion. In order to explore the role played by libraries in the process of social infrastructuring, we conducted a zine-making workshop with librarians. This workshop facilitated collegial conversations and provided an opportunity for participants to familiarize themselves with the concept of social infrastructure and its practical implications in connection with their work. Consequently, both the researchers and librarians gained insight into how libraries function as social infrastructures, and identified areas that require improvement. Furthermore, the workshop also deepened our understanding of how the concept of social... (More)
- Public libraries serve as social infrastructures that foster interpersonal connections and promote well-being and cohesion. In order to explore the role played by libraries in the process of social infrastructuring, we conducted a zine-making workshop with librarians. This workshop facilitated collegial conversations and provided an opportunity for participants to familiarize themselves with the concept of social infrastructure and its practical implications in connection with their work. Consequently, both the researchers and librarians gained insight into how libraries function as social infrastructures, and identified areas that require improvement. Furthermore, the workshop also deepened our understanding of how the concept of social infrastructure can be put into practice. (Less)
- Abstract (Swedish)
- Public libraries serve as social infrastructures that foster interpersonal connections and promote well-being and cohesion. In order to explore the role played by libraries in the process of social infrastructuring, we conducted a zine-making workshop with librarians. This workshop facilitated collegial conversations and provided an opportunity for participants to familiarize themselves with the concept of social infrastructure and its practical implications in connection with their work. Consequently, both the researchers and librarians gained insight into how libraries function as social infrastructures, and identified areas that require improvement. Furthermore, the workshop also deepened our understanding of how the concept of social... (More)
- Public libraries serve as social infrastructures that foster interpersonal connections and promote well-being and cohesion. In order to explore the role played by libraries in the process of social infrastructuring, we conducted a zine-making workshop with librarians. This workshop facilitated collegial conversations and provided an opportunity for participants to familiarize themselves with the concept of social infrastructure and its practical implications in connection with their work. Consequently, both the researchers and librarians gained insight into how libraries function as social infrastructures, and identified areas that require improvement. Furthermore, the workshop also deepened our understanding of how the concept of social infrastructure can be put into practice. (Less)
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- author
- Engström, Lisa
LU
and Rivano Eckerdal, Johanna
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2024-03-14
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Journal of Creative Library Practice
- pages
- 11 pages
- ISSN
- 2330-4227
- project
- Infrastructuring the Social: Public Libraries and their Transformative Capacity in Austerity Urbanism
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9445dac8-c347-4879-895e-cf89b7a378ee
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- https://creativelibrarypractice.org/2024/03/14/bringing-on-the-social-infrastructuring-libraries-through-zine-making-workshops/
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- 2024-03-15 16:08:18
- date last changed
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