Increasing the impact of innovation and advocacy in public libraries across Europe

Maurice de Greef; Liesbeth De Donder; Deborah Lambotte; Minne Huysmans; Daan Duppen; Sylvia Hoens; Flore Croux; Lise Switsers; Tina Pan; Nathalie Colpin; Sara Petti; Ilona Kish

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Increasing the impact of innovation and advocacy in public libraries across Europe

Maurice de Greef, Liesbeth De Donder, Deborah Lambotte, Minne Huysmans, Daan Duppen, Sylvia Hoens, Flore Croux, Lise Switsers, Tina Pan, Nathalie Colpin, Sara Petti, Ilona Kish

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Libraries need to innovate to ensure services they offer match citizens' needs and expectations in addition to among others the increasing digitalisation of society. Besides, professionals in the library sector need to improve their advocacy skills so that stakeholders are aware of the realised innovation. Based on a mixed-method methodology existing of a systematic desk research, followed by short interviews among 49 professionals from 22 different countries working in the public-library sector and finally completed by 25 case studies this study answers the question what kind of innovation and advocacy activities are possible for public libraries influence successful implementation?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25-44
Number of pages	20
Journal	World Studies in Education
Volume	21
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7459/wse/21.1.03
Publication status	Published - 9 Sep 2020

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Increasing the impact of innovation and advocacy in public libraries across Europe. / de Greef, Maurice ; De Donder, Liesbeth ; Lambotte, Deborah ; Huysmans, Minne ; Duppen, Daan ; Hoens, Sylvia ; Croux, Flore ; Switsers, Lise; Pan, Tina; Colpin, Nathalie; Petti, Sara; Kish, Ilona.

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