The Human Library: Definition, Application in the Western, And the Needs of the Application in the Arab Community

Abstract

Human Library is one of the modern services that appeared in European and American libraries in the last decade, and despite the proliferation and spread of studies on them, but it did not agree with the good and worthy follow-up from the Arab libraries and Arab researchers, especially with the frequency of the results of these studies ,Because the human library is unconventional and unpopular in our Arab societies, We have to identify and disclose it, and to demonstrate its suitability to our societies and the possibilities of their application in us, and aspects of their use in our libraries , The study aims to identify the human library, and the importance of the human library, and how to apply them in Western society, and the display of Arab attempts, with a proposal for the Topics and forms of application in Arab society.