The providing human book services, changing reading books into reading people to support lifelong learning of public libraries
Keywords:
Human book, Learning Media, Public LibraryAbstract
This academic article explains human books, it’s interpersonal learning media. This is the channel to share the individuals’ experiences or expertise with those who are interested through story telling instead of reading books. It has 4 components of service: Human Books, Readers, Library, and Date-Time-Location. The library or organizer acts as a cooperation for knowledge sharing. This article presents about human book’s services in Thailand and another country. Guide to human books development with 8 steps, Therefore, it presents the factors that support for development the human books in public libraries, Users and public libraries Usefulness, and the suggestions for these services. It also presents the results of the training for the staff in Phuket Provincial Office of Learning Encouragement. it was a first step for human book development. It was found more than 90% of the trainees have correct knowledge about human books and the level of usefulness and satisfaction that found at the highest level, 100% of the trainees. They were able to use Canva to produce human book’s media for promotion. Find and collected 3 human books for service
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