Rather than being contained within the usual library space, public libraries are deploying services across a variety of sites. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Flybrary project (developed by the Bakul Foundation and the Airports Authority of India), as a public space book-sharing project located in Bhubaneswar Airport, to gain insights about accessibility, outreach and engagement beyond library spaces. Since no respondent-level field dataset was provided, the quantitative component of this study will use only a clearly labeled sample dataset of 200 cases to illustrate an empirical framework. A thousand case dataset was created with eleven 3 item Likert constructs. These constructs then underwent descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha, correlations, regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA). The simulation constructs had a reliability range between .726 and .835. The joint contribution of accessibility, community outreach, awareness, and ease of access accounted for 31.3 percent of the variation in library engagement. Engagement, satisfaction and perceived usefulness accounted for 29.2 percent of the variation in reuse intention. The author hypothesizes that Flybrary type models should support, rather than supplant, conventional public libraries The author will construct a field validation agenda on the collections deployed in Flybrary and other similar sites, and will also study circulation, inclusion, collection relevance, stewardship and the deployment of Flybrary type models in other spaces across India.
