For Charity or Profit? A Case Study of The Friends of Ferguson Library's Used Bookshop Program

• Autores: Westerly A. Donohue
• Localización: Library Philosophy and Practice, ISSN-e 1522-0222, Vol. 9, Nº. 1, 2006
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper hopes to contribute to inter-disciplinary literature by mapping out the ability of one community library's used bookshop volunteers to resolve a potential conflict, that of working in a Used Bookshop Program that both gives away books to institutional recipients deemed as eligible, with its overarching purpose: to maximize profitability on behalf of the library, for serving its programming to the urban City of Stamford, located in Stamford, Connecticut. The study encompasses visual sociological methods, and discusses multi-faceted concepts of community-building from a variety of social science perspectives, but mainly based in sociology.