Travelling Sociability - The Mobile Library

In this article we define mobility as the possibility to move artefacts, people, and encounters to different locations, thus creating new kinds of relationships and meaning. The aim of our article is to be part of the “critical engagement in and through mobilities studies” in which “researchers are making a difference to the ways in which (im)mobilities are conceived of, in research, design and areas of public policy” (Büscher et al. 2011: 14). We want to concentrate on relationships when we explore how the librarians in a mobile library constitute their newly learnt ways of relating better to young library goers.

By Pirkko Raudaskoski & Thessa Jensen
Akademisk kvarter, Vol. 04, 2012.

In this article we define mobility as the possibility to move artefacts, people, and encounters to different locations, thus creating new kinds of relationships and meaning. The aim of our article is to be part of the “critical engagement in and through mobilities studies” in which “researchers are making a difference to the ways in which (im)mobilities are conceived of, in research, design and areas of public policy” (Büscher et al. 2011: 14). We want to concentrate on relationships when we explore how the librarians in a mobile library constitute their newly learnt ways of relating better
to young library goers.

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