By Anna Galluzzi
What's the way forward for libraries? this query is often posed, with frequent study into the social and fiscal impression of libraries. Newspapers play an immense function in forming public perceptions, yet how do newspapers current libraries, their previous, current and destiny? not anyone has but taken the clicking to activity at the volume and caliber of articles on libraries, besides the fact that Libraries and Public belief does simply this, via comparative textual research of newspapers in Europe. After a entire and worthy introductory bankruptcy, the e-book involves the next 5 chapters: considering in regards to the way forward for libraries; Measuring the worth of libraries; Libraries within the newspapers; modern demanding situations and public conception; Which library version from the newspapers: a synthesis.
- Provides an alternate skill to guage the influence of libraries
- Compares various nations and societies relating to their illustration of libraries
- Pursues its topic via lively study, instead of self reflection
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As with all of the research, they follow a Europe-centric approach. Consequently, all the articles talking about countries outside Europe are put together under the label ‘rest of the world/world in general’, whereas the 33 Libraries and Public Perception European countries are processed individually or grouped according to small geographical and cultural areas. After processing all the articles and completing the Excel worksheet, various pivot tables were built to sort and summarise the data. These were the starting point for the discussion of the findings, which will be set out in the next chapter.
This analysis ends with the words of readers and commentators, coming from letters and opinion articles published in the newspapers. Key words: qualitative analysis, quantitative analysis, role and functions of libraries, future of libraries, budget cuts, library closures, digital libraries. Are libraries a ‘hot’ topic? The numbers Preliminarily, it could be interesting to analyse the findings of the research from a quantitative point of view, in order to have an idea of the overall size of the phenomenon under investigation.
Lippmann, 1922, Part II, Chapter II. Censorship and privacy, para. 3. 26. Lippmann, 1922, Part II, Chapter III. Contact and opportunity, para. 2. 27. Lippmann, 1922, Part II, Chapter III. Contact and opportunity, para. 2. 28. Lippmann, 1922, Part V, Chapter XIV. Yes or no, para. 2. 29. Lippmann, 1922, Parts V, VI and VII. 30. See for example Barsamian and Chomsky, 2001. 31. Among the many contribution on this issue, see at least Shirky, 2008, 2010, and Benkler, 2007. 32. In this regard, it could be worth reading at least Morozov, 2011 and Sunstein, 2009.