Abstract In a survey of 31 informational world cities, we investigate the state of the art public library core services. For this study, we applied the core service catalog developed by (Mainka, A., S. Hartmann, L. Orszullok, I. Peters, A. Stallmann, and W. G. Stock. 2013. “Public Libraries in the Knowledge Society: Core Services of Libraries in Informational World Cities.” Libri 63 (4): 295–319. 10.1515/libri-2013-0024), counted the services offered by the libraries and compared findings with the results from 2013, allowing us to calculate a score for each library and rank them accordingly. An overall improvement of the range of services was observed, with North American libraries taking the top three positions in the ranking. To get a clearer picture of the challenges facing libraries today, personal interviews were also conducted with (chief) librarians, especially concerning developments such as maker spaces, increasing demand for information literacy instruction and the changing role of physical library space. The results presented in this paper highlight best practice examples of library services in prototypical cities of the knowledge society.

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公共图书馆如何与时俱进：信息世界城市图书馆的核心服务

摘要在对31个信息世界城市的调查中，我们调查了最先进的公共图书馆核心服务水平。在本研究中，我们应用了（Mainka，A.，S。Hartmann，L。Orszullok，I。Peters，A。Stallmann和WG Stock。2013开发的核心服务目录。“知识社会中的公共图书馆：核心服务Libri 63（4）：295-319。10.1515 / libri-2013-0024），对图书馆提供的服务进行了计数，并将调查结果与2013年的结果进行了比较，从而使我们能够计算出得分每个图书馆，并据此对它们进行排名。观察到服务范围的总体改善，北美图书馆在排名中排名前三。为了更清楚地了解当今图书馆面临的挑战，还与（首席）图书馆员进行了个人访谈，特别是关于制造商空间，对信息素养指导的需求不断增长以及物理图书馆空间的作用变化等方面的发展。本文提供的结果突出了知识社会原型城市中图书馆服务的最佳实践示例。