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Wojciechowska, Maja – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2023
Academic libraries, apart from their main function, which is to provide information services to academic communities, may also perform a number of social roles in the broad meaning of the term. Accordingly, they now tend to serve as the third place offering inclusion and animation activities to academic as well as local communities (including…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Academic Libraries, Librarians, Librarian Attitudes
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Maack, Mary Niles – Library Quarterly, 1993
Shows how l'Heure Joyeuse, a children's library started in Paris in 1923 as a gift from U.S. philanthropists, became a model of open-access, user-oriented public libraries. L'Heure Joyeuse's unique role in the development of public libraries in France from before 1900 to the present is described. (41 references) (EAM)
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Foreign Countries, History, Librarian Attitudes