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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
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
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
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
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
Alvarez, Steven; Alvarez, Sara P. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2016
Research examining ethnolinguistic community schools (García, Zakharia, & Otcu, 2013) proposes that local spaces not directly affiliated with schools sustain bilingualism and identity. Though researchers often theorize about how community schools sustain home language literacies, less research examines how local public spaces sustain…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Spanish, Mentors, English (Second Language)
Power, June – Journal of Access Services, 2011
This article presents an interview with Karen Glover of Georgia Tech, a key person behind the planning of the Access Services Conference held last fall, and now going into its second year. Glover started working in libraries as a part-time library assistant at her local public library during her high school years. She later became a Circulation…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Public Libraries, Information Sources, Department Heads
Miller, Rebecca – Library Journal, 2010
U.S. libraries gave the world a top talent when Deborah Jacobs left her transformational role as City Librarian of Seattle in 2008 to head the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Libraries program, the international sibling to the U.S. Libraries program. The initiative fosters national-scale projects with grantees in transitioning countries…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Public Libraries, Interviews, Librarians
Sensenig, Victor J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the nature of the literacy environment that public libraries construct and how they share the project of children's literacy development with homes and schools. It focuses on library programs for children, particularly story times. Its data came from observations of library activities, interviews with librarians and…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Literacy, Library Services, Children
Park, Sung Jae – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study is to gain a finer-grained picture and better understanding of the travel patterns of library users, and the activities, demographics, and other factors that affect library access. Previous studies of physical accessibility of public libraries, which have focused on library users' single-destination trips and their travel…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Travel, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology