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Social Value of Public Libraries: A Case Study of A.R.S. Inamdar Public Library, Pune (India)

Journal of Indian Library Association, Volume LI, No. 2, 2015

11 Pages Posted: 21 Dec 2015 Last revised: 14 Nov 2016

Intekhab Alam Siddiqui

A.K.K. New Law Academy

Date Written: March 21, 2015

Public libraries being social institutions make an impact on the communities they serve and the value of public libraries is assessed by measuring how well they meet the needs of their communities. The benefits that users gain by using library services can be assessed in terms of knowledge gained, higher information literacy, higher academic and professional success, increase in individual well-being and social inclusion. This paper is based on a case study conducted in a century-old ARS Inamdar Public Library, Pune to measure its social value for the community. The data was collected using two different questionnaires from a sample of 160 users and 110 non-users. The result shows that the library is valuable for most of the users as it helped them to keep up to date, to improve their information seeking skills and in their professional development. The library is quite a safe and calm place for studying and most of the users are getting benefits of the same. The non-users group acknowledged that the public library is playing important role in increased quality of life of the community served by it.

Keywords: Social Institution, Public Library, Social Value, Social Impact of Public Libraries, Community Development

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Pune, Maharashtra India

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B.Arch Thesis: Public Library at Jambhulwadi, Pune by Ganesh Sutar, Aayojan School of Architecture and Design, Pune

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Every story has a character which adds a feel to a story. Similar case with any architectural project and SITE actually adds that character to project.

The basic aim of any Public library is obviously helping people gain knowledge, learn things, exchange ideas but   how this project was different then? Every project is different if we consider its site, location ,surrounding etc.

My initial discussions were about actual outer spaces that people are going to use and experience compare to inner working space. Yes!! Inner space is also most important things but I think designing space overlooking city, lake and mountain range, you will not consider designing interior first and then go for left over outer spaces. Its just that you carved out initial details  like outer spaces and just accommodate interior spaces according to their function.

Proposed Building is actually not visible from approach road.At initial stages we were discussing why such nature dominating space should be disturbed by concrete block??. Instead of designing it like a horizontal plane which people could just use and library  volume that can be hidden beneath that horizontal plane.

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