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Overcoming Information Poverty: Investigating the Role of Public Libraries in The Twenty-First Century considers the role of public libraries in alleviating information poverty and targeting social exclusion, using a three-level information poverty framework. The book proposes a model for understand...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mckeown, Anthony (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Chandos Publishing is an imprint of Elsevier, 2016.
Colección:Chandos information professional series.
Temas:
Public libraries > Administration.
Public libraries > Aims and objectives.
Bibliothèques publiques > Administration.
Bibliothèques publiques > Finalités.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
Public libraries > Administration
Public libraries > Aims and objectives
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Introduction
  • 1.2. Background and Rationale
  • 1.3. Information Poverty
  • 1.4.A New Perspective on Information Poverty and Public Libraries
  • 1.5. The Macro, Meso and Micro Framework
  • 1.6. Research Design and Methodology: Libraries NI as the Case Study
  • 1.7. Structure of the Book
  • 1.8. Summary
  • 2. Setting the Context
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Historical Context: Public Libraries and Social Inclusion
  • 2.3. Poverty in Northern Ireland
  • 2.4. The Department for Culture, Arts and Leisure and Libraries NI
  • 2.5. Library Usage in Northern Ireland
  • 2.6. Library Usage in Socially Deprived Areas
  • 2.7. Conclusions
  • 3. Developing an Understanding of What Information Poverty Is
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.2. Conceptualising `Information'
  • 3.3. Poverty and Information Poverty
  • 3.4. Origins of the Concepts of `Information Poverty' and the `Information Poor'
  • 3.5. Information Poverty and the Information Poor in the LIS Discourse.
  • Note continued: 3.6. Information Poverty: Perspectives From Policy Makers and Library Staff
  • 3.7. Information Poverty and Social Exclusion
  • 3.8. United Kingdom Government: Access to Information and Public Libraries
  • 3.9. Conclusions
  • 4. Factors Creating Information Poverty
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Factors Creating Information Poverty
  • 4.3. Physical Access to Information: Infrastructural Approaches
  • 4.4. Social Factors Creating Information Poverty
  • 4.5. Awareness of Information
  • 4.6. Financial Factors Creating Information Poverty
  • 4.7. Educational Factors Creating Information Poverty
  • 4.8. The Skills Needed to Access Information
  • 4.9. Barriers to Library Usage
  • 4.10. Personal Factors Creating Information Poverty
  • 4.11. Intellectual and Cognitive Factors Creating Information Poverty
  • 4.12. Viewing Information Poverty as a Continuum
  • 4.13. Information Poverty Indicators
  • 4.14. Information Poverty Indicators and Public Libraries.
  • Note continued: 4.15. Measuring the Impact of Public Library Services
  • 4.16.A Three-Level Model of Information Poverty
  • 4.17. Concluding Thoughts
  • 5. Investigating Information Poverty at the Macro Level: Part 1
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Macro-Level Approaches to Information Poverty
  • 5.3. Digital Inclusion: The Digital by Default Agenda
  • 5.4. Northern Ireland Home ICT and Internet Access
  • 5.5. Access to Information: Infrastructure
  • 5.6. Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion: The TSE Strategy
  • 5.7. Staff Skills to Tackle Social and Digital Exclusion
  • 5.8. Conclusions
  • 6. Information Poverty at the Macro Level: Part 2
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Lifelong Learning and Public Libraries
  • 6.3. Supporting Learning: Developing Literacy Skills
  • 6.4. Public Libraries and Cultural Inclusion
  • 6.5. Information Literacy Skills and Public Libraries
  • 6.6. Digital Literacy.
  • Note continued: 6.7. Mapping the Information Poverty Indicators Framework to Libraries NI's Information Provision and Services
  • 6.8. Summary and Conclusions
  • 7. Investigating Information Poverty at the Meso Level: Part 1
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Localised Information Environments
  • 7.3. Information Seeking Within Disadvantaged Communities
  • 7.4. Chatman's Information Poverty Theories
  • 7.5. Chatman's Small-World Theories and Public Libraries
  • 7.6. Social Participation
  • 7.7. Strong Ties/Weak Ties Theory and Public Libraries
  • 7.8. Public Libraries as Third Places Supporting Information Sharing
  • 7.9. Summary and Conclusions
  • 8. Investigating Information Poverty at the Meso Level: Part 2
  • 8.1. Introduction
  • 8.2. Challenges Facing Library Managers in Socially Deprived Areas
  • 8.3.Community Partnerships
  • 8.4. Groups That Public Libraries Could Target More Effectively
  • 8.5. Library Services and the Elderly
  • 8.6. Library Services to the Disabled.
  • Note continued: 8.7. Outreach to the Homeless
  • 8.8. Engagement With Lone Parents
  • 8.9. Improving Community Outreach
  • 8.10. Conclusions
  • 9. Investigating Information Poverty at the Micro Level
  • 9.1. Introduction
  • 9.2. Public Libraries and the Unemployed
  • 9.3. Focus Group 1: Young People Aged 18
  • 24 Years (NEET)
  • 9.4. Job Clubs in Libraries
  • 9.5. Focus Group 2: The Library Job Club
  • 9.6. Learning From Other Locations
  • 9.7. Summary and Conclusions
  • 10. Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations
  • 10.1. Introduction
  • 10.2. Summing Up
  • 10.3. Future Challenges for Public Libraries
  • 10.4. Recommendations for Policy and Practice
  • 10.5. Concluding Thoughts.

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