Published papers

Providing health information services in public libraries is becoming increasingly common, but many health professionals are unaware of this service. Four speakers from the medical and library fields spoke at Special Symposium I: “Library as Place” for Connecting Healthcare and Daily Life,” held at Health Communication Week 2024 in Yokohama, Japan, on topics promoting mutual understanding. The first speaker was a health professional who spoke about his expectations and the challenges regarding libraries’ ability to provide reliable health information and improve public health literacy in the community. The next three talks were from two librarians and a member of a patient group who reported various activities at two public libraries. Finally, a designated discussant expressed his recognition that libraries are a social resource with the potential to empower citizens, providing necessary information for people living with illness and serving as places for health promotion in the community. There were some exchanges between the audience and presenters regarding appropriate information sources and the classification of materials, which are important in practice. This symposium confirmed that libraries have the potential to connect healthcare and daily life, enabling shared decision-making and promoting public health. It was also a valuable opportunity for health and library professionals to come together, share information, and discuss specific strategies. Further discussion and accumulation of evidence of effective practice are expected in the future.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to clarify how social participation among older adults is being realized in public libraries by analyzing the actual activities of the “Essay Group,” which was independently formed by participants in a program specifically designed for older adults by the Hachioji Central Library. Furthermore, through this analysis, the study aims to examine the role of public libraries in fostering and supporting social participation among older adults. Methodology: Fieldwork was conducted during the Essay Group's meetings, with participant observation and audio recordings employed as data collection methods. Using the ethnomethodological approach, the collected data were analyzed to understand the actual interactions that occurred during the group's discussions. Findings: The analysis revealed that discussions during the meetings of the Essay Group were initiated and developed through a broad concept of “knowledge sharing,” facilitated by the presentation of essays that went beyond the scope of mere literature reviews. An interactional analysis of the meeting dynamics demonstrated that the participants not only exchanged their individual knowledge but also engaged in imagining scenarios outside their personal experiences and reconciling conflicting perspectives. Furthermore, the findings highlight the pivotal role of public libraries in fostering social participation among older adults by designing programs that provide “initial triggers for engagement,” “opportunities for building social connections,” and “opportunities that allow for autonomous activities.” These findings underscore the potential of public libraries to serve as essential spaces for fostering and supporting the social participation of older adults.

本研究では，市民の健康医療分野の図書の入手可能性を明らかにするため，県内図書館の図書の所蔵状況を調査した。ランダムサンプリングで抽出した1万点の図書について，千葉県，神奈川県，和歌山県，高知県の各県内図書館の所蔵状況を調査した。結果，相互貸借網に大学図書館が加わることで提供可能点数は大幅に増加することが明らかとなった。また，県立図書館，大学図書館は質の高い図書を所蔵する傾向が強いこと，貸出は出版年が新しいほど多いこと，質の高い図書も比較的よく貸し出されること，などが分かった。

居住する県内の公立図書館の資料は，住民にとって図書入手の実質的基盤となるが，その所蔵状況について，特に健康医療分野に注目して実態を明らかにするとともに，県立図書館の役割を明らかにすることを研究目的とする。和歌山県を対象とし，書誌データをNDLのOpenSearchにより，所蔵データをカーリルAPIによりそれぞれ収集した。1万点の図書を調査した結果，県全体では2,973点の図書を所蔵しその平均価格は1709.0円であった。県立図書館は信頼できる図書を所蔵する傾向が強かった。

© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. All rights reserved. This workshop is aimed at bringing together a multidisciplinary group to discuss Machine Learning and its application in the workplace as a practical, everyday work matter. It's our hope this is a step toward helping us design better technology and user experiences to support the accomplishment of that work, while paying attention to workplace context. Despite advancement and investment in Machine Learning (ML) business applications, understanding workers in these work contexts have received little attention. As this category experiences dramatic growth, it's important to better understand the role that workers play, both individually and collaboratively, in a workplace where the output of prediction and machine learning is becoming pervasive. There is a closing window of opportunity to investigate this topic as it proceeds toward ubiquity. CSCW and HCI offer concepts, tools and methodologies to better understand and build for this future.

近年、公共図書館でのボードゲーム活用の動きが広 がりつつある。始まりは、2010 年度にほんごう子ど も図書館(広島県)が開催した「おはなし会&ボード ゲーム会」というイベントであると考えられている(1)。 日本の公共図書館におけるボードゲームサービスは、 2015 年の山中湖情報創造館(山梨県)による館内利用 開始(2)後、拡大を続けた。本稿では、2022 年 7 月時点 でボードゲームを所有していた図書館全 19 館(うち 館外貸出を行っていたのが 14 館、館内利用のみの図 書館は 5 館)に対して行ったインタビュー調査の結果(3) を基に、現在の公共図書館におけるボードゲームの提 供実態を検討する。

The achievement of topical relevance to the parties of the research is a common aim in qualitative approaches in the social sciences, and ethnomethodology is no exception. Har- old Garfinkel sought to realise this aim by introducing the notion of hybridity, with which he attempted to merge the topic of ethnomethodological studies with the investigative topic treated by members in the field. While he is known to have set a high standard for researchers, particularly in terms of the unique adequacy requirement, there are cases of hybridisation of studies that provided practical value to the practitioners, indicating that they were of topical relevance to them. Thus, while ethnomethodological principles have been mostly discussed in methodological arguments for producing adequate descriptions, this paper explores the principles in the context of hybridisation of studies in practice. First, the paper examines Garfinkel’s arguments on hybrid studies of work as a radical restatement of principles of ethnomethodological studies; second, it examines a case of hybridisation of a hybrid study of emergency control to show the distinctiveness of his solution to the issue of topical relevance to the parties. The examination demonstrates how hybridisation of studies with the specific audience/reader’s corpus of knowledge is carried out within the constraints of the study, within which the presentation is embedded. It also demonstrates how the hybridity of hybrid studies achieved through collaboration between ethnomethodology and emergency control is treated as the basis of its hybridisation with management, including both demonstrations of descriptions of work and suggestions made by the researcher. These demonstrations will reveal how policies of ethnomethodo- logical studies are critical to the hybridisation of hybrid studies.