public libraries
Public libraries and the information society. Proceedings of the telematics for libraries concertation meeting. Luxembourg, 8 July 1996
... PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND 111E JNPORMAnON SOCIEI'Y WORKSHOP initiation of pilot projects identifying adequate levels of services for different types of libraries dissemination of knowledge of[r] ...
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How Americans Value Public Libraries in Their Communities
... of public libraries at a time many Americans are increasingly connected through the internet and mobile devices—and others remain offline ...whether libraries are as essential for finding information ...
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Collaborative and Social Interaction within Groups of Patrons in Academic and Public Libraries: Implications for Digital Libraries
... the public libraries there were a number of participants who visited the library to use the Internet, for group meetings and to rest at the sofas and ...
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Public libraries in the "age of austerity" : income generation and public library ethos
... for libraries operating in affluent areas, with a healthy local economy and where competition from museums or galleries is not too strong, as these more prestigious organisations tend to be more successful than ...
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The Role of Public Libraries in Local Economic Development
... surveyed libraries are presented to provide a broad picture of the libraries that responded to the ...that public libraries currently have available for serving the business ...which ...
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Social Media as a Marketing Tool for Public Libraries
... a public library’s Facebook ...every public library Facebook page received during the observed time period, it is useful in determining what factors led to higher levels of patron interaction with ...
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Ask Live! UK public libraries and virtual collaboration
... part public libraries individually provided little in the way of web access, both for staff and ...of libraries. It also made economic sense; for little investment, libraries without web ...
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The Digital Divide in North Carolina Public Libraries.
... Many of the traditional indicators of social inequality follow the digital divide. For instance, income was always one of the major factors in computer ownership and internet use (Cooper, 2004). Another large disparity ...
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Evaluation of SCRAN subscription to Scottish public libraries
... in public libraries throughout Scotland have to have a list at hand of the material they have provided, but more worryingly members of the public are blocked from accessing more than mere thumbnails ...
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Censorship challenges to books in Scottish public libraries
... For a quantitative approach to the research topic, a survey using either a questionnaire or a mixture of questionnaires and interviews would be a good approach to give an overview of the current incidence of censorship ...
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Community development and rural public libraries in Malaysia and Australia
... Rural public libraries are an ideal site to support and encourage community development as they assist in enhancing intellectual and social growth at both an individual and community ...rural public ...
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Public Libraries and Access to Information in Plateau State, Nigeria
... While considering the conduct of needs assessment of rural dwellers for information services modelling, it is also essential to explore the perception of public libraries by rural people. Getting a glimpse ...
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ALIA INTERNET ACCESS IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES SURVEY 2013
... eSmart Libraries program developed by the Alannah and Madeline Foundation, with $8 million in funding from the Telstra Foundation to roll this out nationally across all public libraries over three ...
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Problem Patron Policies in Public Libraries: A Content Analysis
... children’s area without children, campaigning, selling, being in unauthorized areas, and installing damaging software on computers. Relatively close figures were found between each of the libraries in these areas ...
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Ease of Navigability in Two Public Libraries' Spanish Catalogs
... Since public libraries’ goal is information dissemination, this study evaluates and compares how easy it is to navigate Charlotte- Mecklenburg’s Spanish to a county similar in size-San Francisco County, ...
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Serving the Patron: Tradition, Ideology and Change in Public Libraries
... of public libraries currently offer public internet access ...of public library branches indicate that the number of workstations they currently have is adequate to meet patron demands at all ...
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Emergent digital services in public libraries : a domain study
... Scottish public libraries, as Harden reporting on an earlier UK wide review found that ‘many public library websites are little more than digitised leaflets’, and argued that such public ...
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Young People and Public Libraries in Ireland: Issues and Opportunities
... visit libraries (Department of the Environment and Local Government, 1998), as well as upgrading the information and communications technology (ICT) ...2003 Public Library Users Survey, which also found ...
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Availability and organisation of creationist literature in UK public libraries
... UK public libraries, with the majority being selected by the library authority itself via its normal procurement ...since public libraries should be about presenting all viewpoints to the ...
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The Panoptic principle and information access in UK public libraries
... in public libraries is controlling in nature and because the public library patron has to necessarily adapt their behavior to use the public library computer the public library does ...
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