All Paths Leading to the Library: Youth Mobility and Community-Based Planning

2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1988298
Author(s):  
Carolina S. Sarmiento ◽  
Catherine Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Eighth Graders ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Community Spaces

In the context of a community-based planning process to relocate a neighborhood public library in Madison, Wisconsin, this research examines youth’s everyday mobility to improve their access to public space. Through an analysis of field notes, cognitive maps, and interviews with fifth and eighth graders, researchers find that youth move relatively independently every day while using different place-making strategies. The research also finds that mobility options among youth are racialized experiences with important implications in accessing services like the library. The article identifies library planning as an important process for building inclusive community spaces.

Library services enriching community engagement for dementia care: The Tales & Travels Program at a Canadian Public Library as a case study

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110651
Author(s):  
Jiamin Dai ◽  
Joan C. Bartlett ◽  
Karyn Moffatt
Keyword(s):  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
People With Dementia

Growing dementia-friendly library services are contributing to community-based dementia care. Emerging community programs in libraries and museums provide notable opportunities for promoting engagement and inclusivity, but these programs have yet to receive in-depth assessments and analyses to guide future research and practice. This paper presents a case study examining a social and storytelling program for people with dementia run by a Canadian public library. It investigates two research questions: How can public library programs contribute to community-based dementia care? And what are public libraries’ strengths and challenges in running programs for people with dementia? The study involves participant observations of the program and semi-structured interviews with people with dementia, caregivers, and program facilitators (librarians and Alzheimer Society coordinators). Through thematic analysis of fieldnotes and transcripts, the study reveals how this inclusive platform supports engagement, fosters relationships, helps caregivers, and reaches broader communities. This research further uncovers the librarians’ diversified roles as demonstrated through their collaboration with professionals, preparation and research, and facilitation of the sessions. This paper advances librarianship research on enriching community-based dementia care, including furthering inclusivity and engagement and extending accessible library services. By analyzing library programming for the dementia community and assessing its strengths and challenges, the paper highlights librarians’ awareness of the community’s evolving needs and their collaboration with other professionals. It offers practical insights on useful resources and emerging best practices that will hopefully inspire other initiatives in which information professionals can help improve the well-being of vulnerable populations.

scholarly journals Small Talk Comparison Report

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Beecher ◽  
Craig K. Van Pay
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Small Talk ◽  
Story Time ◽  
Conversational Turns

A team including university researchers, a public library, and a community non-profit agency worked together to test the effectiveness of a universal, community-based intervention to increase parents’ child-directed speech, back-and-forth interactions with their child, and knowledge of child development. The comparison group was drawn from families who regularly attended story time, had children of eligible age, but did not attend Small Talk. The curriculum utilized was LENA Start. We found that intervention families grew significantly in Adult words, Conversational Turns with child, and in Child vocalizations compared to the families who did not attend the parent education program.

scholarly journals The Ethics of Rural Place-Making: Public Space, Poetics, and the Ontologies of Design

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Potter
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
North East ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Rural Place ◽  
Poetic Practice ◽  
Climate Change Community

The small settlement of Hopetoun in the Victoria’s north-east – Mallee country – is oriented physically, economically and socially around Lake Laschelle. Large signs map the way for the tourist to its edge, where boat ramps and picnic sites await. And yet there is no water here and has been none for years. The presence of water in its absence is palpable. Over three years I followed water around the drought-ridden Mallee, a participant in a creative research project that sought to poetically recollect and assemble stories from this country as an experiment in place-making. Via collaborative practice between artists, with local community, and with the material environment of the Mallee itself, this still ongoing project brings poetic practice to bear on questions of political urgency – drought, climate change, community distress – usually the province of the techno and social sciences. In a land cultivated to take note of water’s absence, the project began to assemble its presence. This paper discusses this project as a methodological experiment that raises unsettling questions about the ethics of place-making in a context of post-colonial environmental change.

scholarly journals No Other Safe Care Option: Nursing Home Admission as a Last Resort Strategy

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 1504-1514
Author(s):  
Heather J Campbell-Enns ◽  
Megan Campbell ◽  
Kendra L Rieger ◽  
Genevieve N Thompson ◽  
Malcolm B Doupe
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Nursing Home Admission ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Care Nursing

Abstract Background and Objectives Nursing homes are intended for older adults with the highest care needs. However, approximately 12% of all nursing home residents have similar care needs as older adults who live in the community and the reasons they are admitted to nursing homes is largely unstudied. The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons why lower-care nursing home residents are living in nursing homes. Research Design and Methods A qualitative interpretive description methodology was used to gather and analyze data describing lower-care nursing home resident and family member perspectives regarding factors influencing nursing home admission, including the facilitators and barriers to living in a community setting. Data were collected via semistructured interviews and field notes. Data were coded and sorted, and patterns were identified. This resulted in themes describing this experience. Results The main problem experienced by lower-care residents was living alone in the community. Residents and family members used many strategies to avoid safety crises in the community but experienced multiple care breakdowns in both community and health care settings. Nursing home admission was a strategy used to avoid a crisis when residents did not receive the needed support to remain in the community. Discussion and Implications To successfully remain in the community, older adults require specialized supports targeting mental health and substance use needs, as well as enhanced hospital discharge plans and improved information about community-based care options. Implications involve reforming policies and practices in both hospital and community-based care settings.

The Public Library Planning Process

1998 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 15-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annabel K. Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public

Community-Based Crime Prevention: An Assessment of the Eisenhower Foundation's Neighborhood Program

1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan F. Bennett ◽  
Paul J. Lavrakas
Keyword(s):  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Program Success ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Life ◽  
Local Problems

The article assesses the implementation and impact of the Eisenhower Foundation's Neighborhood Program in ten communities. Most organizations successfully implemented the program and generated a level of participation that compares favorably to other programs. Despite successful implementation, the programs had only modest community impact. Fear of crime and concern about local problems declined slightly in some communities, but there was no documentable evidence of change in communities' crime or perceived quality of life. Of the Eisenhower Foundation guidelines, technical assistance was most clearly linked to program success, although the community planning process and advisory councils may have increased participation. Possible reasons for the small program impact and policy implications of the demonstration project are discussed.

Mechanisms of Power Within a Community-Based Food Security Planning Process

2004 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine McCullum ◽  
David Pelletier ◽  
Donald Barr ◽  
Jennifer Wilkins ◽  
Jean-Pierre Habicht
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Problem Framing ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Security Planning ◽  
Participation In Decision Making

A community food security movement has begun to address problems of hunger and food insecurity by uti-lizing a community-basedapproach.Althoughvarious models have been implemented,little empirical researchhasassessed howpoweroperateswithincommunity-basedfoodsecurityinitiatives.Thepurposeofthisresearchwas to determine how power influenced participation in decision-making, agenda setting, and the shaping ofperceived needs within a community-based food security planning process, with particular reference to disen-franchised stakeholders. Power influenced participation in decision-making, agenda setting, and the shaping ofperceived needs through managing 1) problem framing, 2) trust, 3) knowledge, and 4) consent. To overcomethese mechanismsof power, practitionersneed to address individual-,community-,and institutional-level barri-ers to participation in community-based food security planning processes. Practitioners and researchers canwork with disenfranchised groups to determine which agents have the power to create desired changes by utiliz-ing theory-based methods and strategies that focus on changing external determinants at multiple levels.

Women and Carnival Space

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
Regina Zervou
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Aegean Island ◽  
North Aegean ◽  
Male Discourse ◽  
The Village

This article focuses on gender relations through the performance of carnival rites in a North Aegean island rural community. Based on qualitative research, it approaches the women’s use of public space during carnival and the changes under the influence of women’s emancipation since the 1970s. The percentage of women, especially young girls, participating in carnival rites has risen dramatically over the last decade. However, not all carnival public spaces are equally open to women. The article examines the way women try to impose their presence on the strictly male universe of the carnival space and especially the marketplace, the traditional and timeless core of the carnival rites, where only men can pronounce the obscene carnival language, fruit of the kafeneion male discourse and the reactions of the male community to the novelties brought by feminism into the village.

scholarly journals THE USE OF ONLINE WEB-BASED SOFTWARE I-TREE CANOPY AS AN ALTERNATIVE IN SUPPORTING COMMUNITY BASED ZERO DELTA Q PLANNING

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Akhmadi Puguh Raharjo
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
River System ◽  
Tree Canopy ◽  
Land Cover Class ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Cover Class ◽  
Online Web

Zero Delta Q is a policy to ensure that any additional surface runoff due to development does not further burden the drainage or river system. In case of Zero Delta Q application planning at the community level, a software is needed that can help classify and quantify the existing land cover class in area where the community is located. The purpose of this study is to look at the time needed and reliability of the i-Tree Canopy web-based software online in classifying and quantifying land cover classes on one of the sub-catchments in the Pesanggrahan River Basin. The land cover class is divided into six: trees, grasses / undergrowth plants, open area, water bodies, pavement / road and roof of the building. For comparison, an RBI map is used from the same area to see the extent of each class of land cover. Observation of each point requires an average time of 5.2 ± 1.0 seconds. The difference between direct sub-basin measurements using i-Tree Canopy and detailed analysis results from the RBI map is within the range of 0.41% or 0.36 Ha for each individual class of land cover. For a relatively small study area (under 100 ha) and when supported with reliable internet access, this web-based online software is sufficiently reliable in assisting the application planning process to support Zero Delta Q policy.

scholarly journals La bibliothèque au-delà de la bibliothèque

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 86-95
Author(s):  
Maurizio Bergamaschi
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Public Library ◽  
The Public ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Surrounding Areas

The public library of Casalecchio di Reno, a small town near Bologna (Italy), is an articulated and multifunctional space, a reference point not only for the municipality but also for the surrounding areas. This library is characterized by multiple spaces and functions, some of which are well-defi ned whilst others less, and diff erent groups of population use it. Together, its low level of regulatory framework, its geographical location and its confi guration as a «public space» make this library both a place of culture and a place of hospitality and friendliness in urban space. By analysing the everyday practices and the concrete actions performed by the subjects, the present study focused on the redefinition of space and on the practices of re-signifi cation, as well as on the manifest or latent needs that underlie such practices.

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