Collaborative Spaces at Work

12 Turning public libraries into collaborative spaces

The role of multimodal imaginaries

Silviya Svejenova, Eva Boxenbaum, and Renate Meyer

Library: A building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for use or borrowing by the public or the members of an institution.

Oxford Living Dictionaries, 2018

We call it a “Do-It-Together Library” … as the concept title is an interpretation of the maker movement’s original DIY slogan and is inspired by the libraries’ focus on collaboration.

DITbib, Køge Libraries, 2016

Introduction

In recent years, scholars and practitioners alike have identified threats to the well-being of the public library as an institution (Smith, 2019) and forecasted its ...