Team members Riie Heikkilä and Ossi Sirkka were keynote speakers at an event (Lahden AKE-alueen kirjastolaisten Verkostoitumis- ja inspiraatiopäivät) for library professionals at Hämeenlinna on 16 May 2024. Their talk “Who do libraries belong to? Struggles on public spaces for culture” received lots of comments and a the talk was followed by a lively debate.
The presentation was based on PUBLIB (Redistribution of Cultural Capital in the Era of Algorithms: A Comparative Study of Finnish Libraries) research project and on a reserch article titled “Tolerants versus traditionalists: making sense of online conversations on the new Finnish flagship library Oodi” published in International Journal of Cultural Policy. Read the whole paper at https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2023.2272841!
Photos by Miika Kangasniemi.
