Library Touched My Heart
Abstract
Today’s libraries try
to provide zones where users can feel both intellectually and spiritually
comfortable. Accordingly, this study
aims to handle the matchmaking role of libraries within the frame of evolving
services and transforming places. Within
the frame of the study, relevant posts of the users in social media confession
page of Ankara Adnan Ötüken Provincial Public Library, Marmara University
Library, Gazi University Library, Yıldız Technical University Library were analyzed. Structured interview
was made with 4 users of National Library who came to study in the library. The results were
shared with literary lyrics and poems complying with the underlying context herein.
Keywords
Love in library,libraries as matchmaking places,stories in libraries,libraries as third places
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