Research Topics and Development on Library Services to Older Adults Abroad

  • Miao Meijuan
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  • Department of Information Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871

Received date: 2018-02-25

  Revised date: 2018-05-08

  Online published: 2018-10-20

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] The paper aims to understand the research topics and development of library services to older adults abroad and prove reference for China.[Method/process] Though literature reviews, this paper combs the research topics and development of library services to older adults from 1938 to 2017 abroad.[Result/conclusion] The research can be divided into three stages. Features include:research users continue to expand and subdivide; research perspective shifts from focusing on library to the needs of older adults; study of services shifts from a single and simple service to diversified and innovative services; research concept shifts from serving the older adults to engage older adults. Deficiencies include paying too much attention to older adults who come into library and neglecting users outside library, and lacking introduction and evaluation of representative projects.

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Miao Meijuan . Research Topics and Development on Library Services to Older Adults Abroad[J]. Library and Information Service, 2018 , 62(20) : 142 -151 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2018.20.016

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