
Academic Libraries and Public Engagement With Science and Technology
Description
Key Features
- Demonstrates concrete ways that libraries and librarians can play a role in fostering public engagement with science
- Features best practices and case studies of different types of programming and services that libraries can offer
- Provides a conduit to bring informal science educators, communication officers, and librarians together to explore ways to align their work to promote scientific literacy
Readership
Librarians and library staff from public, academic and special libraries (museum libraries, libraries in science-related government agencies)
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; Background on the status of science literacy in U.S. - why it is important
History of libraries as community gathering space/informal education
Review of science of science communication literature and parallels in libraries
Role of informal science education in fostering science literacy
Overview of the book2. Makerspaces/Innovation Studios
What they are/what might find in them
Best practices
Case studies that include how using them to foster engagement with STEM3. Citizen Science
What citizen science is
Challenges/Opportunities in Libraries
Best practices
Case studies of how libraries are incorporating citizen science programs (NC State, Virginia Tech, librarians in academic libraries in California)4. Data Visualization Labs and Communities of Practice
What a data visualization lab is
Ways data visualization labs can promote engagement with science and create communities of practice
Case studies of libraries that have data visualization labs (NC State, we are looking to have one here at The Universities at Shady Grove)5. Instruction/Workshops
Coding Programs in public libraries and academic libraries
Data and visual literacy workshops
Teaching software tools that people can use to interpret data and make own meaning from it, such as GIS tools, infographic software
Robotics workshops in public libraries6. Cultural events
Exhibits - best practices
Author talks
panel discussions
Case studies7. Collections/Information Management
Digital repositories for data - how they can help share science
Online databases (e.g. Encyclopedia of Life; Biodiversity Heritage Library)
Open Source journals/publishing and libraries’ role in this
Circulation of new items—science kits, binoculars, sampling tools, etc
Product details
- No. of pages: 211
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Chandos Publishing 2019
- Published: March 22, 2019
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780081021255
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081021248
About the Author
Eileen Harrington
Affiliations and Expertise
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