Researching Practice/Practicing Research: The Public Library in Partnership with Academia

IF 0.3 4区管理学 Q4 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Library Trends Pub Date : 2021-07-14 DOI:10.1353/lib.2020.0043

J. Latham, Noah Lenstra

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LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 69, No. 4, 2021 (“Researching Practice/Practicing Research: The Public Library in Partnership with Academia,” edited by Joyce M. Latham and Noah Lenstra), pp. 717–24. © 2021 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois In 2012, Canadian public librarian Pam Ryan wrote about “the grim reality of low public librarian research and publication rates” (5). Woods and Booth (2013) provide some quantitative backing to this claim: among all types of practitioner research in librarianship, public librarian research is the least common. Only 0.6 percent of articles in their sample came from public librarians, behind 5.4 percent from school librarians. Adkins (2019) notes this problem emerges from multiple sources, including the fact that “the publication venues for research on public librarianship are relatively few, and the people writing in this area are relatively small in number” (211). It may also be “due in part to the municipal and fragmented nature of the public library. As most public libraries are products of their communities, they each have a unique story about their beginnings and their challenges” (230). Regardless of the reasons why, public librarians compose only 14 percent of the authors in her dataset of prolific voices in the public library literature, meaning that the voices of public librarians are underrepresented even within the small research literature on public libraries. How can we reverse this anemic record? One starting place is attending to the questions public librarians partnering with academic researchers raise. From the perspective of public librarians, the questions that animate the six articles featured in this special issue include the following:

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研究实践/实践研究：与学术界合作的公共图书馆

图书馆趋势，第69卷，2021年第4期（“研究实践/实践研究：与学术界合作的公共图书馆”，Joyce M.Latham和Noah Lenstra编辑），第717-24页。©2021伊利诺伊大学董事会2012年，加拿大公共图书馆员Pam Ryan写到“公共图书馆员研究和出版率低的严峻现实”（5）。Woods和Booth（2013）为这一说法提供了一些定量支持：在图书馆学的所有类型的从业者研究中，公共图书馆员研究是最不常见的。在他们的样本中，只有0.6%的文章来自公共图书馆员，而5.4%来自学校图书馆员。Adkins（2019）指出，这个问题来自多个来源，包括“公共图书馆学研究的出版场所相对较少，在这一领域写作的人相对较少”（211）。这也可能“部分归因于公共图书馆的市政性和分散性。由于大多数公共图书馆都是其社区的产物，它们各自都有自己独特的开端和挑战故事”（230）。不管原因是什么，在她收集的公共图书馆文献中，公共图书馆员的声音只占作者总数的14%，这意味着即使在关于公共图书馆的小型研究文献中，公众图书馆员的意见也代表性不足。我们如何才能扭转这种贫血的记录？一个起点是关注公共图书馆员与学术研究人员合作提出的问题。从公共图书馆员的角度来看，本期特刊中六篇文章的问题包括以下内容：

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Library Trends INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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1.20

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Library Trends, issued quarterly and edited by F. W. Lancaster, explores critical trends in professional librarianship, including practical applications, thorough analyses, and literature reviews. Both practicing librarians and educators use Library Trends as an essential tool in their professional development and continuing education. Each issue is devoted to a single aspect of professional activity or interest. In-depth, thoughtful articles explore important facets of the issue topic. Every year, Library Trends provides breadth, covering a wide variety of themes, from special libraries to emerging technologies. An invaluable resource to practicing librarians and educators, the journal is an important tool that is utilized for professional development and continuing education.