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Download full textSteele, Shirley; Heim, Amanda – 1997
This publication explains, through examples of current library programs around the United States, how libraries affect the education of children, and offers an impetus for others to embrace the challenge of providing quality library programming for children. Through these programs, libraries work toward achieving national educational goals, and…
Descriptors: Children, Creative Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Panyarachun, Anand – 1999
This paper discusses information gateways and equal access to information. Highlights include: the development of the physical infrastructure of libraries; globalization as it relates to the use of software; Internet controls such as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act; the psycho-social component of libraries; computer literacy and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Children, Computer Literacy, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedNeuman, Susan – Knowledge Quest, 2002
Presents findings of a study that examined the impact of a model urban library system in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) on children's literacy development, particularly for poor, minority families, and its relation to reading achievement. It is concluded that libraries are vital for children's achievement and developing informational needs. (MES)
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Libraries, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedSchon, Isabel; And Others – Library and Information Science Research, 1987
This survey of librarians in public and school libraries serving a significant number of Hispanics found that, although 60 percent of the respondents report that books in Spanish for Spanish-speaking children and young adults serve an important educational purpose, many of the remaining respondents are very much opposed to increasing their…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Language Books
Rodgers, Frederick A.; Innes, Elizabeth A. – 1992
The African American church has a long history of service to its community. The church in African American life has always served as a source of support, learning, information, and improvement for its members and the community it serves. This project directed its resources and energies toward developing meaningful and effective strategies for…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescents, Black Community, Black Institutions
George, Mary Ellen – 1997
The purpose of this study was to find out to what extent K-12 fiction and nonfiction books about and for hearing impaired children and adolescents are included in the collections of the seven public libraries in Franklin County, Ohio. Two core bibliographies were compiled through content analysis of selective bibliographic sources. Via dial-up…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Bibliographies
