Private vs. Public: Entrepreneurial Library Services for Children in China

Authors

  • Jon Jablonski

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.16.2.27

Abstract

At 8:30 on a cold November Sunday morning in 2014, I met Echo Liu in southern Beijing, an hour’s drive away, far from the renovated alleyways and Forbidden City of the city center.

Echo and a handful of helpers were busy preparing her children’s library, a library that she owns and operates as a private business, for a 9 a.m. storytime and craft activity that would feature a foreign visitor. 

Author Biography

Jon Jablonski

Jon Jablonski is geospatial data librarian and director of the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory at the University of California Santa Barbara Library. He holds an MLIS from the University of Washington and an MA in Geography from the University of Oregon. In addition to continuing his study of how children’s libraries are evolving in China, he works on the long-term preservation of born-digital geographic information and volunteers as an adult literacy tutor at the Santa Barbara Public Library.

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Published

2018-06-01

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (2018): Summer

Section

Features

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