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Title: | The social weaving of a reading atmosphere | Authors: | Sequeiros, Paula | Keywords: | atmosfera de leitura; reading atmosphere; bibliotecas públicas; public libraries; leitura em bibliotecas; reading in libraries; espaço; space; ruído; noise | Issue Date: | 2011 | Publisher: | Sage | Serial title, monograph or event: | Journal of Librarianship and Information Science | Volume: | 43 | Issue: | 4 | Abstract: | 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. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/95888 | ISSN: | 0961-0006 1741-6477 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0961000611425823 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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