TY - CPAPER KW - user motivations KW - crowdsourcing KW - commenting KW - archives KW - libraries KW - museums KW - public sphere AU - Isto Huvila AU - Gordana Gašo AU - Mirna Ranogajec AU - Jure Žilić AU - Madeleine Lundman AB - The importance to provide users with a possibility to contribute to the online services of archives, libraries and museum and the cronic lack of popularity of such functions are two parallel truisms that contradict with each other. This paper reports of a pilot study of user motivations to contribute to online services of ALMs. The findings suggest that reasons to contribute vary considerably between individual contributors but also that many of the services provided by memory institutions are not necessarily considered by users as relevant arenas of engagement. It seems that the users and institutions alike have difficulties to pinpoint the role of the existing services. Two possible ways forward could be to focus on developing services with specific social relevance in particular well-defined contexts, and establishing, framing and communicating the social relevance of existing services in more explicit terms. BT - Information and technology transforming lives: connection, interaction, innovation. Proceedings of the XXVII Bobcatsss Symposium, Osijek, Croatia, January 2019 CY - Osijek LA - eng N2 - The importance to provide users with a possibility to contribute to the online services of archives, libraries and museum and the cronic lack of popularity of such functions are two parallel truisms that contradict with each other. This paper reports of a pilot study of user motivations to contribute to online services of ALMs. The findings suggest that reasons to contribute vary considerably between individual contributors but also that many of the services provided by memory institutions are not necessarily considered by users as relevant arenas of engagement. It seems that the users and institutions alike have difficulties to pinpoint the role of the existing services. Two possible ways forward could be to focus on developing services with specific social relevance in particular well-defined contexts, and establishing, framing and communicating the social relevance of existing services in more explicit terms. PB - Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek PP - Osijek PY - 2019 T2 - Information and technology transforming lives: connection, interaction, innovation. Proceedings of the XXVII Bobcatsss Symposium, Osijek, Croatia, January 2019 TI - Library Catalogue Is Not a Community! User Contributions to Online Services of Archives, Libraries and Museums ER -