Editorial


 


Evidence Summary Theme: Community
Engagement


 


Fiona
Inglis

Associate Editor (Evidence Summaries)

Liaison Librarian, Science

Wilfrid Laurier University

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Email: finglis@wlu.ca


 


 


 2024 Inglis. This
is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative
Commons‐Attribution‐Noncommercial‐Share Alike License
4.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/),
which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly attributed, not used for commercial
purposes, and, if transformed, the resulting work is redistributed under the
same or similar license to this one.




 


 


DOI: 10.18438/eblip30613


 





 


The evidence summaries in this issue focus on
community engagement. They explore research from many different types of
libraries that have reached out to their communities and engaged them in developing
services, spaces, and collections. These include: an ethnographic study of a
school library in France; analysis of the public library services provided for
people with dementia in Canada, Korean immigrants in the U.S.A., and tribal
women in Bangladesh; a review of the ways in which academic health sciences
libraries in North America are engaging with their local Indigenous
communities; and a study on the impact of social prescribing by a community
library in Japan.


 


We hope you enjoy learning about these projects and
that they inspire you to explore new ways to engage with your own communities.