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Michelle K. Conners – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, digital literacy has become a fundamental skill for active participation in society. Maine's public libraries recognize this reality and have taken steps to provide digital literacy education to their communities. However, these efforts are hindered by a lack of resources necessary to meet the…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Literacy Education, Public Libraries, Community Education
Jasmyne R. Lewis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The role of public libraries is changing in response to a multitude of influences and trends. The exponential growth of technology as the primary method of information access, funding challenges, changing demographics, and other mitigating factors have forced public libraries to become more than book repositories. Community library leaders and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Library Role, Public Libraries, Library Personnel
Yoho, Deborah W. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A deeper understanding of reading as more than a set of word-attack and decoding skills may help to guide public librarians seeking to fully implement the ethical professional standard of equitable access to information for everyone, including marginalized patrons such as adults experiencing homelessness. As public libraries respond to questions…
Descriptors: Adults, Homeless People, Public Libraries, Library Role
Ross, Jessica M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Dissemination of news and information is often challenging in small, rural communities, where sprawling geography and limited resources can limit the effectiveness of communication systems. While traditional media and local organizations attempt to inform the public through newspapers, flyers, radio, social media, and word of mouth, no one means…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Role, Rural Areas, Information Dissemination
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
Littleton, Dawn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to describe the methods--including practices, policies, and roles--used by public and academic library staff in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Racial and Ethnic Approach to Community Health (REACH) intervention that proved successful in reducing or eliminating several diabetes-related health…
Descriptors: African Americans, Low Income Groups, Health Programs, Intervention
Ren, Xiaoai – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research examined the functions and roles of public library systems in New York State and the services they provide for individual libraries and the public. The dissertation further studied the service decision-making processes at three selected New York State cooperative public library systems. Public library systems have played an important…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Services, Decision Making, Library Administration