Marx said:
'...The philospohers have only interpreted the world in various
ways - the point however is to change it...'
If psycographic data (never heard the term before - Maslow, yes;
Asimov's 'Psycohistory', yes!) is another tool to work alongside
demograpic data, let's get it and use it.
But let's *not* philosophize on libraries, please - there is the problem
of 'Paralysis by Analysis' - let's get the data, and then change.
Locally, regionally, home countries, nationally.
JU
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From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gareth Osler
Sent: 31 Aug 10 21:04
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Subject: Re: [LIS-PUB-LIBS] Statistics - Demographic vs Psychographic
library user data?
A few misc. links:
(CILIP course)
Community profiling in public libraries
http://www.cilip.org.uk/jobs-careers/training/Pages/community-profiling-
public-libraries.aspx
(Resource)
Profiling Your Community
http://www.skyways.org/pathway/profile.html
(Shropshire a while ago did a lot of quite detailed work with census
data and individual community libraries -- the webpages have now been
removed I guess as the data became out of date, but it was a good
example of what can be done with census data, they may still have it
archived.) Community Library profiles
http://www.shropshire.gov.uk/Library.nsf/open/8945F3C40662432E80256C9900
37C215
Some reasoning (how sound I'm not sure!)...
...on the subject of Maslow, Maslow essentially reflects that people
prioritise needs (creating a hierarchy, what is important about xyz
etc.)
...values are synonymous with needs [backchannel for citation] -- a
relationship here between beliefs and values and culture and needs
...as a society becomes more civilised, then the needs of the people are
increasingly met [which I guess is the only reason a librarian does
anything in the first place (terminal and instrumental capacities)], so
an understanding of the needs of a community and their values being of
all importance to a library?
(I guess what I'm saying is could we have more discussion on the
philosophy of libraries please ;)
Gareth Osler
Library Web
http://libraryweb.info
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