Libraries Building Communities

The State Library of Victoria has produced some very interesting looking research into the role that public libraries play in society. The reports cover such ground as the value libraries bring to communities, who uses libraries and who doesn't, example of best practices and more. I haven't had a good read yet but there looks to be some very interesting stuff.

Read all about it and download the reports from their web site: Libraries Building Communities

Answerboards

For those of you interested in the discussion about online reference and the use of answerboards you might be interested in this recent post on the PLV Director's blog. In it she looks at reasons why people may go online rather than to their local library.