The Social Weaving of a Reading Atmosphere
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| author | Sequeiros, Paula |
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| contents | The Social Weaving of a Reading Atmosphere Sequeiros, Paula Public Libraries Reading Foreign Countries Ethnography Interviews Models Case Studies Spatial Ability This paper discusses how public library readers in Almeida Garrett, Porto, create a reading atmosphere, focusing on meanings associated with aural conditions. Through a qualitative, single case study, ethnographic and interview techniques were applied. Readers' actual practices and discourses, through a theoretical sample, and those of managers, staff and architects were analysed; a spatial analysis was conducted within the framework of social inequalities and power relations. The paper proposes the concept of "reading atmosphere" and suggests that its social production is based on a tacit, informal code of conduct in which some regular readers played an influential role. Some recommendations on service provision are made. |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2011 |
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| spellingShingle | The Social Weaving of a Reading Atmosphere Sequeiros, Paula Public Libraries Reading Foreign Countries Ethnography Interviews Models Case Studies Spatial Ability The Social Weaving of a Reading Atmosphere Sequeiros, Paula Public Libraries Reading Foreign Countries Ethnography Interviews Models Case Studies Spatial Ability This paper discusses how public library readers in Almeida Garrett, Porto, create a reading atmosphere, focusing on meanings associated with aural conditions. Through a qualitative, single case study, ethnographic and interview techniques were applied. Readers' actual practices and discourses, through a theoretical sample, and those of managers, staff and architects were analysed; a spatial analysis was conducted within the framework of social inequalities and power relations. The paper proposes the concept of "reading atmosphere" and suggests that its social production is based on a tacit, informal code of conduct in which some regular readers played an influential role. Some recommendations on service provision are made. |
| title | The Social Weaving of a Reading Atmosphere |
| topic | Public Libraries Reading Foreign Countries Ethnography Interviews Models Case Studies Spatial Ability |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ948940 |