Presentation: Libraries for a knowledge society: a bottom-up perspective

Professor Ms. Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark

Children are key to the strategic development of tomorrow’s librariesbecause children exercise multimodal competencies that are of vitalimportance to future library provision in democratic societies.Based on empirical analyses of children’s library uses, key questionsto be answered are as follows: how do children use library servicesto negotiate virtual and real-life engagements? How do libraryuses relate to children’s everyday media appropriations?What are the chances and challenges for libraries posed by children’smultimodal uses?

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