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Private Libraries in China: Their Diversity, Informatization, and Role as Public Spaces

Wang, Zizhou; Yin, Peili; Hanhua, Wu

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Title
Private Libraries in China: Their Diversity, Informatization, and Role as Public Spaces
Author(s)
  • Wang, Zizhou
  • Yin, Peili
  • Hanhua, Wu
Issue Date
2013
Keyword(s)
  • Private libraries
  • China
  • Public space
Abstract
Private libraries in China—most of which were created by bottom-up processes, not top-down government mandates—offer a diversity of services to a range of constituencies. They offer individuals space for reading and study, information exchange, interpersonal communication, IT training, amusement, recreation, and entertainment. They offer schools and communities an aggregated abundance of social resources in a learning-centered atmosphere, which in turn enhances school- and community-based cooperation. For society as a whole, they offer support for the elimination of “knowledge poverty,” and a boost for public service and civil society. Thus they function, to some degree, as community informatization commons and community-based public space.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Library Trends 62 (1) Summer 2013: Community Informatics in China PRIMARY
Library Trends 62 (1) Summer 2013: Community Informatics in China. Edited by Kate Williams