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Library Cultural History Lab (Saori Donkai)
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The lab explores older adults and libraries, and learning support.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring older adults and libraries, and knowledge and information infrastructure.
Professor Saori Donkai's lab conducts research on "older adults and libraries" and "knowledge and information infrastructure."
In the area of older adults and libraries, the lab deals with the Research Group on Super-Aged Society and Libraries, dementia-friendly libraries, and the information-seeking behavior of older adults.
In the area of knowledge and information infrastructure, the lab deals with learning commons, learning support, and student assistants.
Key terms
- Knowledge and information infrastructure
- One of the lab's two research pillars, alongside older adults and libraries. It includes topics such as learning commons
- Dementia-friendly library
- The idea of the library as a place that supports people with dementia. The lab's publications include a paper on support services in public libraries in the United Kingdom
- Learning commons
- A space in a university library that supports students' learning. The lab's publications include papers on student assistants and on cases in various countries
ResearchResearch themes
Professor Saori Donkai's lab conducts research on "older adults and libraries" and "knowledge and information infrastructure." The list of publications on the lab's website covers work up to around 2017.
*Illustrative imageOlder Adults and Libraries
The lab takes up the Research Group on Super-Aged Society and Libraries, dementia-friendly libraries, and the information-seeking behavior of older adults.
*Illustrative imageKnowledge and Information Infrastructure
The lab takes up learning commons, learning support, and student assistants.
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- ProfessorSaori Donkai
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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: “Northeast Library reading room washington dc” Cornellrockey / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Older Adults and Libraries: “Sherwood Public Library Interior 2022” Simon Tsu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Knowledge and Information Infrastructure: “The Library and Learning Center by Zaha Hadid, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria” O Palsson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Public Library Studies Lab (Yuko Yoshida)): “Library desk, Reading Room, Mitchell Building” Pix Magazine Photographer / Public domain (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)
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