TY - GEN
T1 - Human library
T2 - 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2017
AU - Huang, Yun
AU - Dobreski, Brian
AU - Xia, Huichuan
N1 - Funding Information:
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services LG-80-15-0212-15. The views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. We thank John Zimmerman, Norman Makoto Su, Mark Ackerman and anonymous CSCW reviewers for their thoughtful feedback on this paper.
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© 2017 ACM.
PY - 2017/2/25
Y1 - 2017/2/25
N2 - The human library is an event intended to engage members of the community in sharing and learning from each other's experiences, and is growing in popularity internationally. Human libraries fall within the larger scope of community knowledge sharing but have received little study and remain largely unsupported by technology. In this study, we examine how community libraries organize and host these events. We present how libraries have attempted to utilize technologies and leverage community support to enable human library events. Our findings reveal inconsistencies in the purpose of human library events, as well as technology applications that are not sufficient to support fully collaborative community knowledge building. We highlight opportunities for increased community participation and technological innovation and also suggest a broader consideration of computer-supported collaborative work in the context of human libraries and experience sharing.
AB - The human library is an event intended to engage members of the community in sharing and learning from each other's experiences, and is growing in popularity internationally. Human libraries fall within the larger scope of community knowledge sharing but have received little study and remain largely unsupported by technology. In this study, we examine how community libraries organize and host these events. We present how libraries have attempted to utilize technologies and leverage community support to enable human library events. Our findings reveal inconsistencies in the purpose of human library events, as well as technology applications that are not sufficient to support fully collaborative community knowledge building. We highlight opportunities for increased community participation and technological innovation and also suggest a broader consideration of computer-supported collaborative work in the context of human libraries and experience sharing.
KW - Community knowledge
KW - Community-oriented services
KW - Human library
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Libraries and communities
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U2 - 10.1145/2998181.2998312
DO - 10.1145/2998181.2998312
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85014769704
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 1152
EP - 1165
BT - CSCW 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 25 February 2017 through 1 March 2017
ER -