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Library Management Strategy Lab
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A lab that examines social issues through library management and policy.
AboutAbout the lab
Addressing social issues through library management
The Koizumi Lab studies, from the perspectives of management and governance, how libraries operate and provide knowledge, information, technology, and media to citizens.
From three levels (national policies and institutions, the management of regions and organizations, and individual information behavior), the lab considers how libraries can solve social issues.
Focusing on libraries in the Nordic countries, the United States, and Japan, the lab conducts policy analysis and case analysis.
The lab is also interested in collection development and evaluation, which involves assembling library materials and assessing them.
Key terms
- Governance
- Managing and steering an organization or society through rules and mechanisms
- Collection development and evaluation
- Deciding what materials a library should hold and acquiring them, then checking whether that collection is useful
- Ethnography
- A research method in which the researcher enters the setting and observes and records people's lives and behavior
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies, from the perspectives of management and policy, how libraries provide knowledge and information resources to citizens and how they contribute to solving social issues. It analyzes the policies and cases of public libraries in the Nordic countries, the United States, and Japan.
*Illustrative imageDemocratic Library Management in the Nordic Countries
The lab analyzes libraries in Oslo, Tromsø, Stockholm, Aarhus, and Helsinki, together with recent changes in library legislation, to examine the link between the Nordic social model and democratic library management.
*Illustrative imageLinkages in U.S. Library Policy
Based on documents from 2000 to 2021, the lab analyzes U.S. public library policy. It examines the relationships among national, state, and local policies, and the shift in emphasis from electronic resources to community services that make use of physical space.
*Illustrative imageLibraries Overcoming Social Divisions
One research project on libraries as spaces for overcoming social divisions plans to develop a new method of library evaluation by combining literature review, policy and case analysis, and local ethnography.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMasanori Koizumi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Periodicals Quiet Reading Room Chapel Hill Public Library” Bbfd / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Democratic Library Management in the Nordic Countries: “The Portico Library Reading Area” Michael D Beckwith / CC0 (cropped)
- Linkages in U.S. Library Policy: “American Library Association - Libraries - New Jersey through North Carolina - Interior of Public Library, Syracuse, New York - NARA - 20800764” American Library Association / Public domain (cropped)
- Libraries Overcoming Social Divisions: “Reading space at Caezaria Complex Public Library in Lugazi” Micheal Kaluba / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Public Library Policy Lab): “Stack of journals and books in the Central Geological Survey Library, MOEA” Kai3952 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Library Cultural History Lab (Saori Donkai)): “Northeast Library reading room washington dc” Cornellrockey / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Understanding Knowledge Sharing (Uda) Lab): “Hamamatsu Municipal Sakuma Library reading room ac (8)” Asturio Cantabrio / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Individual Characteristics and Social Networks Lab (Shaoyu Ye)): “Smartphone use at railway station” Rawpixel.com / CC0 (cropped)
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