Research Trends of Public Library Service to Achieve SDG’s: A Bibliometric Analysis Utilizing The WOS Database

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Background of the study: Public libraries are essential in advancing the SDG’s by enhancing services through the establishment of service standards based on 17 SDG indicators; nevertheless, there remains a deficiency in comprehensive literature reviews and bibliometric analyses

Purpose: To investigate research trends of public library services to achieve SDG’s.

Method: This study utilizes a bibliometric analytic approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative performance evaluations and scientific-intellectual and conceptual mapping frameworks. This research extracted 4,476 papers from the WOS database over the last 8 years (2016-2023)/until post-COVID with defining search keywords (defining "Library", "SDG’s", Library" and "Limited SDG’s" as initial search keys). The data extracting and processing used the bibliometrics method (biblioshiny software).

Findings: Public libraries are not among the dominant ones, and library standards do not appear in the bibliometric analysis results based on WordCloud by Title. Cooperation between countries in scientific studies of Libraries and SDG’s as of 2023 is still dominated by the USA. The close relations between countries collaborating, Australia is the largest country.

Conclusion: The discussion on scientific research concerning Libraries and SDG’s highlighted numerous themes pertinent to Academic Libraries and their Services. Research on academic library services is more prevalent than public library services, as the concept of services aligns more closely with academic libraries than public libraries. The subject of indicators for library standards has not been addressed whatsoever.  Research on the development of SDG’s-based public library service standards still has a great opportunity to be appointed as a research topic, as a novelty for future research. Southeast Asian countries dominate countries that have not yet collaborated.