Naslov
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES: WARBOOKPEDIA.BA INITIATIVE AT THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY IN SARAJEVO

Autori
Khattab, Džejla ; Grebović Lendo, Nadina ; Demiragić, Ajla

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Information and technology transforming lives: connection, interaction, innovation. Proceedings of the XXVII Bobcatsss Symposium, Osijek, Croatia, January 2019 / Gašo, Gordana ; Gilman Ranogajec, Mirna ; Žilić, Jure ; Lundman, Madeleine - Osijek : Filozofski fakultete Osijek, 2019, 117-124

ISBN
978-953-314-121-3

Skup
27th Bobcatsss Symposium Information and technology transforming lives: connection, interaction, innovation (Bobcatsss 2019)

Mjesto i datum
Osijek, Hrvatska, 22.01.2019. - 24.01.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
academic libraries, community engagement, embedded librarianship, the Library of the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, Wikipedia

Sažetak
Embedded librarianship, which has grown from an emerging trend to a well-established programs in many libraries, incites librarians to focus on gaining access to the customer communities through active collaborations with faculty and administrators (Shumaker, 2009), and emphasizes the importance of building strong working relationships with groups and individuals who need the librarian’s information expertise (Shumaker, 2012). This paper provides the perspective from academic libraries viewpoint, and accentuates that community engagement initiatives should not be limited only to public libraries. Drawing on the community involvement initiative at the Faculty of Philosophy Library in University of Sarajevo, this paper demonstrates that academic libraries can effectively enable interactions between students, scholars and the public. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia built collaboratively using wiki software and one of the most visited reference site on the web, will be used to foster academic librarian’s community engagement activities in creating Warbookpedia.ba domain, reconciling physically disparate information resources in an online space. War literature is seen as a possible vehicle for initiating and facilitating reconciling processes in the society. The research will hopefully assist to improvement of the quality of knowledge available in free online resources such as Wikipedia, linking the content with verified resources, maintaining the centrality of librarianship to knowledge management in the knowledge society and knowledge based economies. The research adopts and investigates transformative learning necessity in academic environment, showing that stronger relationship librarians built with user, move towards a more integrated highly focused and specialized research results. The discussion of the outreach activities in this article will hopefully provide guidance and suggestions for academic librarians who are interested in community engagement and encourage other similar initiatives.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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