On Libraries [Guest Editors]
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 34A-11923
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/223512/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This special issue is the substantive publication of The Walking Library. This iterative, practice-led and participatory research project required a complex, extended method of collective creative investigation, interrogating the relationships between reading, walking and environments. The library’s six iterations (collections, exhibitions and public walks) enabled exploration of its overarching theme in different contexts (utilizing new contextualised research questions to reorient and extend the research each time), adding depth, scope and wider relevance to the findings. The issue expands upon the critical insights garnered from the project’s first five years, through an extensive focus on the diverse performances attached to libraries.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The 146 page special issue On Libraries was initiated by Heddon and Myers, who shared equal responsibility for the curation and delivery of the project, including: drafting the call for papers, reviewing and selecting 23 contributors from 100+ abstracts and identifying coherent themes which worked across the collection; reviewing, editing, commenting on and providing extensive feedback on all contributions. Heddon and Myers each took primary editorial responsibility for 50% of the submissions and secondary responsibility for 50%, and equal responsibility for the final submission of the edition for publication. The co-authored essay, 'The Walking Library: Mobilizing books, places, readers and reading' was led by Heddon, with significant contribution from Myers and the editorial Introduction was led by Myers, with significant contribution from Heddon. The special issue arose out of and was closely linked to Heddon and Myers', The Walking Library, a practice-led research project which explored the relationship between books, walking and environment, through the curation of site-responsive pedestrian/mobile libraries. In its design, it functioned as a laboratory through which to develop a series of accumulative research explorations. The research was pursued across six different editions, each with a different focus and set of questions (e.g. a walking library for women walking, a walking library for shelter, a walking library for night walking) and engaging different participants through public walks. Research outcomes for the different editions were shared via six keynotes, four public exhibitions, and publication of seven peer-reviewed scholarly outputs ranging from essays to artists' pages. The special issue On Libraries sought to explicitly extend and diversify the research of The Walking Library by supporting transnational enquiry into the relationships encountered between books, libraries, and performance.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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