On 24 November the new SociresPublication Connect Windows. The magazine is the result of research conducted by Ronald van Steden and David Oldenhof on the social significance of public libraries. The focus of the research is how libraries are living rooms of meeting and connection in a society where these places become increasingly scarce.
Libraries have been transformed into vibrant living rooms full of meeting and creativity. We wanted to map that transformation. The magazine offers an insight into local libraries that organise lively activities for young and old. It leaves the initiators to explain their motives. In it, their passions always stand out to do something for another.
Three thinkers will also speak. The philosopher Lister recognizes a new spirit in the library; a place of the community next to the market and the state. For philosopher Welmud Vlieger, the library is the place to share and discuss sources of meaning, which is an indispensable element of good citizenship. And finally, historian Wijnand Mijnhardt recognizes in the library the two pillars of classical citizenship, namely reading and meeting.
The book is an exploration of how, despite decades of austerity, the library has managed to transform it into a place of encounter in a society where it is by no means self-evident.
Contents Windows On Connection
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