Tell Me About the Library of Your Dreams: Community Art for Learning User Needs
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2025-04-04
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Abstract
Participatory or Community based art projects have long been used to understand the priorities, needs, and perceptions of a community. Within the context of an academic library, community art projects can foster a sense of engagement and send a strong message that participants' thoughts, ideas, and feelings matter. By providing a prompt in the form of a question, and scaffolds for expression in the form of images that can be colored, drawn, written upon, a safe, inclusive, and fun space can be provided for sharing thoughts, ideas, suggestions, feelings about the library, and how the community uses and interacts with it.
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This is a poster presentation from ACRL 2025 Conference in Minneapolis, MN on April 4, 2025.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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needs assessment, visual research methods, libraries
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Twomey, B. (2025, April). Tell me about the library of your dreams: Community art for learning user needs. [Poster presentation]. ACRL, Minneapolis, MN.