Naomi Wake er ph.d.-studerende fra Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, Tsukuba Universitet i Japan. Naomi skal tilbringe 9 måneder på IVA, hvor hun skal skrive om bibliotekernes rolle i integrationspolitik.
Naomi Wake
What are your main research areas?
My research deals with immigrants' public library uses. How do
immigrants use public libraries? What kinds of experiences do they
gain through them? Furthermore, what kinds of rules in libraries
affect them? These kinds of questions are in my mind at the
moment.
This research attempts to assess immigrants' library
uses and their attitudes toward public libraries from their
statements by using qualitative methods because these have not been
sufficiently mentioned in preceding studies that have mainly
adopted quantitative approaches. With the rapid progress of
globalization, citizens' library uses are getting more
multifaceted. Hopefully, this research will be of help for the
better understanding of them.
What made you decide to come to RSLIS?
The existence of Dr. Hans Elbeshausen made me decide to come here,
in fact. In Japan, even though the number of foreign residents is
getting bigger gradually, nobody investigates on their information
behaviors and library uses professionally. So it is a good
opportunity for me to take advice from a researcher specializing in
this research area at RSLIS.
Also, the academic agreement between RSLIS and my
university, University of Tsukuba, helped me to come here in the
procedural as well as the financial sense. I hope this mutually
beneficial relationship will continue for years to come.
What will you be doing while you're here?
Taking interviews with immigrants is one of my main activities
here in Denmark. The interviews will be held, focusing on their
library uses in three public libraries in Copenhagen. After that,
data analysis will also be done using data analysis software for
qualitative researches.
What are you hoping to get out of your
stay?
Hopefully, sufficient data will get collected in the quantitative
sense through this stay and will connect to the better
understanding of immigrants' library uses. If you have interest in
this research area, please knock on my door in A4.16 without
feeling any constraint.
Af Helle Saabye