TY - GEN
T1 - The role of public libraries in smart, inclusive, and connected communities
T2 - 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Governance in the Data Age, DG.O 2018
AU - Mersand, Shannon
AU - Gascó-Hernández, Mila
AU - Gil-Garcia, J. Ramon
AU - Burke, G. Brian
AU - Figueroa, Miguel
AU - Sutherland, Megan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2018/5/30
Y1 - 2018/5/30
N2 - Smart community is a term that has been recently used to characterize efforts to transform communities and make them more sustainable, efficient, transparent, and where citizen participation is the norm. Information technologies are many times seen as enablers of these potential changes. In smart communities, the role of public libraries is key. This poster analyzes current practices in public libraries and identifies the expertise, knowledge, and background that help them contribute to citizen engagement in smart community initiatives. Practices in infrastructure, technology, programming and services, and stakeholder partnerships were classified in three levels: building blocks, good practices and unique practices.
AB - Smart community is a term that has been recently used to characterize efforts to transform communities and make them more sustainable, efficient, transparent, and where citizen participation is the norm. Information technologies are many times seen as enablers of these potential changes. In smart communities, the role of public libraries is key. This poster analyzes current practices in public libraries and identifies the expertise, knowledge, and background that help them contribute to citizen engagement in smart community initiatives. Practices in infrastructure, technology, programming and services, and stakeholder partnerships were classified in three levels: building blocks, good practices and unique practices.
KW - Citizen engagement
KW - Connected communities
KW - Public libraries
KW - Smart cities
KW - Smart communities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049029868&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3209281.3209403
DO - 10.1145/3209281.3209403
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85049029868
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
A2 - Hinnant, Charles C.
A2 - Zuiderwijk, Anneke
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 30 May 2018 through 1 June 2018
ER -