public libraries

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Literature has been the place to go for views on the new and discomforting. Readers have looked to literature to understand the movements of society and their own role in it. Is the experimental arena of electronic literature where we should now look? Can electronic literature help readers find ways to connect or disconnect with the ubiquitous digital transformation?

 

The Jury

Scott Rettberg, Professor of Digital Culture, University of Bergen, and author of Electronic Literature (Polity, 2018)Søren Pold, PhD and Associate Professor of digital aesthetics, Aarhus UniversityThomas Vang Glud, Editor of “The Literature Page” (Litteratursiden.dk)Rasmus Halling Nielsen, Author of electronic and printed literatureMartin Campostrini, Curator of electronic literature and digital development, Roskilde LibrariesMette-Marie Zacher Sørensen, PhD in Electronic Literature, Assistant Professor, Aarhus UniversityMaria Engberg, PhD and Senior Lecturer, Dept of Computer Science and Media Technology, Malmö University (SWE), co-editor of The ELMCIP Anthology

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By Patricia Tomaszek, 6 March, 2014
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Abstract (in English)

From the perspective of Library and Information Science, Belov presents an investigation into curating electronic literature in public libraries. Specifically, he addresses the "Digital Arena Electronic Literature Reading Series" produced by the University of Bergen Digital Culture Program and the Bergen Public Library.

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Within this presentation I will try to explain how Conversation theory by Gordon Pask and concept of Facilitating Knowledge Creation by R. David Lankes can help those working in the libraries as well as their partners to create a more feasible physical and digital space
for the members to participate in E-lit knowledge ecology of access, communication,
motivation and creation.

Another underdiscussed and long ignored (and painful) topic is the evolution and reconfiguration of digital space for members of the public libraries in light of networked social media environment and technology saturated society. What can we, working in the libraries (not necessarily only librarians), do to make this space more accommodating to the current changing needs of the members and to the emergence of newer types and formats of information and knowledge, less artifact centered, less traditional catalog-fitting, more hybrid, dynamic and socially constructed?