Zane Meldere Cooperation networks among Riga Central Library and its branch libraries Papers at BOBCATSSS 2017

1. COOPERATION NETWORKS AMONG
RIGA CENTRAL LIBRARY
AND ITS BRANCH LIBRARIES.
A CASE OF ORGANIZING EXHIBITIONS DURING 2015
Zane Meldere
University of Latvia, Faculty of Social Sciences
Department of Information and Library Studies
Riga, Latvia
e-mail: melderezane@gmail.com

2. • Introduction
• Methodology and theory
• Results
• Conclusion
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3. RIGA CENTRAL LIBRARY
• Established in 1905
• 26 branch libraries
and two external
service points
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4. EXHIBITIONS
• How libraries can attract visitors in digital era?
• Cultural center
• Exhibition = a lot of sources and materials to show in
interactive way
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5. THE PURPOSE
• whether the Riga Central Library and its branch
libraries cooperate in the process of organizing
exhibitions during 2015?
• how often the cooperation was?
• what kind of cooperation exists with external entities?
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6. METHODOLOGY
• Questionnaire
• 27 libraries → 22 managers
• 27 questionnaires → 15 answers → 12 valid answers
• NodeXL and Gephi programs for visualizations
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7. THEORY
• Social Network Theory (Kadushin)
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8. ANALYZE OF DATA: THE NETWORK
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9. ANALYZE OF DATA: GEO LOCATION
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10. CONCLUSION
• Riga Central library has central role among branch libraries
• Branch libraries tend not to cooperate often with each
other
• Most portion of cooperation is with external partners
• Influence of cooperation – geographical location,
managers of libraries
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11. THANK YOU!
Zane Meldere
melderezane@gmail.com