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Lo, Patrick; Allard, Bradley – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2021
El Parnaso is an interesting cultural center in the small city of Young, which is located a bit north of Trinidad, Uruguay. This center is a non-profit organization dedicated to meeting the information needs of its population, and it contains a children's library and a music library. El Parnaso hosts a wide variety of activities for children and…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Art Education, Cultural Education, Librarians
Agyekum, Boadi – Journal of Learning Spaces, 2022
Public libraries in Hamilton provide countless services to different users, particularly older immigrants. The library system proves to be an inclusive learning space, promoting lifelong learning for all. The paper explores the relationship between public library use, lifelong learning and community development. In addition, it demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Libraries, Users (Information), Librarians
Horrigan, John B. – Pew Research Center, 2016
The analysis in this report is based on a Pew Research Center survey conducted March 7-April 4, 2016, among a national sample of 1,601 adults, 16 years of age or older, living in all 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Fully 401 respondents were interviewed on landline telephones, and 1,200 were interviewed on cellphones, including 667…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, National Surveys, Interviews, Public Opinion
Gillespie, Ann; Partridge, Helen; Bruce, Christine; Howlett, Alisa – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2016
Introduction: This paper presents the findings from a project that investigated the lived experiences of library and information professionals in relation to evidence-based practice within an Australian public library. Method: The project employed ethnography, which allows holistic description of people's experiences within a particular community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evidence Based Practice, Public Libraries, Ethnography
Martin, Crystle – Knowledge Quest, 2017
Learning to code has been an increasingly frequent topic of conversation both in academic circles and popular media. Learning to code recently received renewed attention with the announcement of the White House's Computer Science for All initiative (Smith 2016). This initiative intends "to empower all American students from kindergarten…
Descriptors: Librarians, Role, Coding, Computer Science
Steele, Jennifer Elaine – ProQuest LLC, 2017
One pressing issue in libraries today is the censorship of information. This study applies Kurt Lewin's gatekeeping theory to examine the decision-makers as well as the different pressures and constraints that are at issue in decisions regarding challenges and censorship attempts that occur in public libraries. Through an in-depth case study of…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Censorship, Access to Information, Decision Making
Robinson, Lily Beatrice – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Guided tours, field trips, and other non-formal learning experiences occur in a variety of settings such as museums, parks, civic buildings, and architectural landmarks for the purpose of educating the public. This study yielded four main findings. (1) Program educational goals were visitor awareness, positive affective experience, and advocacy.…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Educational Objectives, Learning Experience, Advocacy
Nabushawo, Harriet Mutambo; Aguti, Jessica Norah; Winterbottom, Mark – Journal of Learning for Development, 2016
This paper examines the place of public libraries in supporting distance learners in Makerere University, exploring the factors which affect utilisation of their services. The study adopted a survey design with 300 B.Ed. students, collecting data through focus group discussions, structured questionnaires and individual interviews.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Libraries, Distance Education, Library Services
Thiele, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In the United States, individual states have different means of determining and distributing funding. This influences library service and access to information particularly as it pertains to critical Internet access. Funding and service trends have changed, especially as it relates to public libraries, with some modifications working to their…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Rural Areas, Public Libraries, Library Role
Kwak, So-Yoon; Yoo, Seung-Hoon – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2012
As a public library, a public good, provides many external benefits for the community it belongs to, its public value needs to be carefully assessed. More specifically, the Korean Government demands information on the public value that ensues from the establishment of the Gwangju branch of the National Library. This paper therefore attempts to…
Descriptors: Library Services, Government Libraries, Public Libraries, Surveys
Brown, Jennifer A. Scott; Stefaniak, Jill E. – Contemporary Educational Technology, 2016
The majority of research that has been conducted on structuring mentorship programs has been on career support in terms of transferring tacit and explicit knowledge from the supervisor to the protégé. While the instructional design literature touts that cognitive apprenticeships provide a great framework for constructivist and situated learning…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Story Reading, Story Telling, Librarians
Consumer Health Information Provision in Rural Public Libraries: A Comparison of Two Library Systems
Flaherty, Mary Grace – Library Quarterly, 2013
To better understand health information provision in the public library setting, two cooperative library systems that serve primarily rural populations in upstate New York were studied. The central library in one of those systems established a consumer health information center (CHIC) in 1999. In the other system, the central library does not have…
Descriptors: Library Services, Public Libraries, Printed Materials, Library Personnel
LeMaistre, Tiffany; Embry, Rebecka L.; Van Zandt, Lindsey L.; Bailey, Diane E. – Library Quarterly, 2012
In a comparative field study of ten libraries, we show how technological advances in electronic and digital resources have led to an onslaught of technology questions at the reference desk while prompting new and challenging work away from the desk. Libraries in our sample varied in their approaches to dealing with technological change, with…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, Reference Services, Librarians
Hickling-Hudson, Anne; Hepple, Erika – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2015
This paper describes a public pedagogy project embedded into The Global Teacher, a subject within the Bachelor of Education program for student teachers at an Australian university. The subject provides a global perspective on socio-political issues that shape education. In 2013, The Global Teacher introduced an approach that asked student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Libraries, Exhibits, Preservice Teachers
Koh, Kyungwon; Abbas, June – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
An increasing number of libraries and museums provide transformative learning spaces, often called "Learning Labs" and "Makerspaces." These spaces invite users to explore traditional and digital media, interact with mentors and peers, and engage in creative projects. For these spaces and programs to be sustainable, it is…
Descriptors: Librarians, Library Personnel, Interviews, Higher Education