Sociologist Ray Oldenburg describes third places as "community places on neutral ground where people can gather and interact, in contrast to first places (home) and second places (work)...informal gathering places, they make the citizen feel at home, they nourish relationships and diversity of human contact, they help create a sense of place and community, they invoke a sense of civic pride".
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
Libraries: the Third Place Forum
For information on the program for the Libraries - Third Place Forum follow this link......
The concept of libraries as third place - community gathering places, points of connection within communities - will be explored through this blog. We welcome your contributions, thoughts, vignettes, links, and images that participate in and inform this dialogue.
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Proceedings from the forum will be available on this site soon - watch this space!
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