Public Libraries in the Smart City

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Faculty of Science, New Valley University, New Valley, Egypt

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We now live in an era of the rise of smart cities and data-driven governance, where public libraries serve as supportive infrastructures, promoting digital knowledge, and as civic data centers; To consolidate urban development, through its collections, services and public spaces, and therefore it represents a meeting point for everything characterized by knowledge and intelligence, and there is no doubt that libraries have an important role in supporting smart cities, as the library expanded to other sectors of social and cultural life linked to the economic development strategies of the cities that were built In them, this became particularly evident in the visions of "smart cities", made possible by the proliferation of communication network technologies. This book aims to pay attention to the relationship between library transformation and the role it plays in cultural and economic development, and to understand the relationship between the contemporary library and its interactive urban context. Smart cities directly and indirectly to the requirements of a particular public institution, and the book provides a modern view of libraries by relying on interviews with a group of library specialists and policy makers, who are at the forefront of changes and challenges that libraries are currently facing, and thus clarifying the dissonance and tension between the visions of governments and the needs of their beneficiaries Libraries and societies.

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