Library Management: Volume 42 Issue 3

Guest editorial

Pentti Vattulainen

Trends in the Dutch and Finnish library landscape

Sander van Kempen, Anne van den Dool, Pirkko Lindberg, Leena Parviainen

This paper aims to provide an overview of the current situation as it relates to library acts and prominent usage trends in public libraries in The Netherlands and Finland.

The role of public libraries in the development of social capital in local communities – a theoretical study

Maja Dorota Wojciechowska

Social capital, understood as intangible community values available through a network of connections, is a factor in the development of societies and improving quality of life. It…

Evaluating the quality of health information services in public libraries: an experience from Iran

Sara Valadi-khorram, Mohammad Reza Amiri, Mohammad Karim Saberi

Considering the important role of public libraries in providing health information service as well as user feedback in improving the quality of health information services, the…

Increasing or decreasing reading trend: an overview of the current status of the public libraries in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Muhammad Rafi, Khurshid Ahmad, Zheng Jian Ming

As the human race moved from the Paleolithic to the current phases of the Neolithic period, the learning process developed from inscriptions on stones to clay tablets, from…

Public libraries in crisis time: empirigraphy of Iranian public libraries in the 2019 Iran massive flood

Fatemeh Pazooki, Fahimeh Saboori

One of the largest floods in Iran happened in Nowruz in 2019, during which torrents of rain, flooding of rivers, landslides and the destruction of dams caused floods and led to…