The role of public libraries in Glasgow Communities in the 21st Century

所提出的理论框架将把信息行为的理论和模型与文化资本理论结合起来，以更好地理解 PL 在发展文化能力中的作用；在物理和数字空间中培养、支持、赋权和联系个人、团体和社区； PL 提供并促进获取文化资本和社区信息；然而，大量研究表明，许多人在认识、表达和满足信息需求方面遇到很大困难，在不利的情况下，这可能会导致在贫困（小）的信息世界中存在分层和脱离的存在，只关注眼前的信息需求，对文化发展产生负面影响。文化能力水平低下会加剧此类问题。明确特定的 PL 机制（创造/产生文化能力和资本）已被强调为需要研究关注，PL 在促进文化资本作为解决社会排斥和刺激社区参与的手段方面的作用也是如此。还强调需要更深入地了解 LIS 专业的文化能力。该奖学金将调查（在文化背景下）：信息需求和行为；人们社区互动的性质和范围；各种策略和激活机制；作为情感因素的文化能力；和 PL 角色。具有国家重要性的学生奖学金将为关键的社会（PL）社区角色提供重要的经验证据，特别是在弱势环境中。

The proposed theoretical framework will bring together theories and models of information behaviour with theories of cultural capital to better understand the PL role in developing cultural competencies; fostering, supporting, empowering and connecting individuals, groups, and communities in both the physical and digital space; and contributing to community creativity, prosperity, values and participation.PLs provide and facilitate access to cultural capital and community information; however, numerous studies have shown that many people experience great difficulties in recognizing, expressing and meeting their needs for information, and that in disadvantaged circumstances, this can lead to a stratified and disengaged existence within an impoverished (small) information world focused on immediate information needs, with negative implications for cultural development. Low levels of cultural competency compound such issues. Identification of specific PL mechanisms (creating/generating cultural competencies and capital) has been highlighted as requiring research attention, as has the PL role in facilitating cultural capital as a means of addressing social exclusion and stimulating community engagement. A need for greater understanding of cultural competence within the LIS profession has also been highlighted. This studentship will investigate (within the cultural context): information needs and behaviours; the nature and extent of people's community interactions; the various strategies and activating mechanisms; cultural competency as an affective factor; and the PL role. Of national importance, the studentship will provide important empirical evidence of a key societal (PL) community role, particularly in disadvantaged circumstances.