Don’t miss our Open Session 079 : Participatory projets in Libraries: connecting collaborative communities- LTR with Simultaneous interpretation (SI) .14th August 2016 .   13:45 – 15: 45    Union Station Ballrooms A/B/C

Chair: Raphaëlle Bats

The speakers are:

1. Participatory Projects in Icelandic Libraries: Connecting Culturally through the Icelandic Sagas

Andrea Wyman, Baron-Forness Library, United States

2. Citizen Participation, Controversial Social Issues, and the Information Services of Public Libraries: the Perspective of Librarians in Taiwan

Cathy Lin Wen-Yau, Dept. of Information and Library Science Tamkang University, Taiwan, Republic of China

3. Creating Space: The Impacts of Spatial Arrangements in Public Library Makerspaces

Shannon Crawford Barniskis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States

4. Participatory projects in public libraries – a tool for visibility and social betterment in local community

Dijana Sabolović-Krajina, Public library “Fran Galović” in Koprivnica, Croatia