This article reports an investigation of the attitudes and opinions of children’s librarians towards poetry, and towards its promotion in the public library. It also reports some attitudes towards literature promotion to young people in general. A series of structured interviews with library professionals currently working in the public sector strongly indicate that children’s librarians are th...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 105–120. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This study discusses strategies for narrowing the digital divide by examining the real-name and ID requirement policy that governs online purchases of train tickets in China. Using a case study, the authors of this study ask...

This paper reviews the role of public libraries in bridging the digital divide in Delta State. It calls for the adoption of appropriate infrastructure and other innovative measures like introduction of appropriate computer related programmes in schools, encouraging citizenry to pick up carrier in the area of science and technology, embanking on enlightenment and awareness programmes and setting...

While a review of the literature reveals a set of accepted standards for quality teen space design, this paper seeks to determine if public library teen spaces currently succeed in meeting these standards. Teen space design is significant not only for its aesthetic value, but for its impact on teens, who face many developmental challenges as well as a lack of safe and welcoming environments in ...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2014 (“New Perspectives on Intellectual Freedom,” edited by Mark McCallon), pp. 57–74. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The “Fiske Report” is the popular title for a study conducted in the late 1950s under the auspices of the University of California School of Librarianship with the financial support of the Fund for the Republic, a li...

Research in socio-technical factors in computer security has traditionally focused on employees and their work practice within the premises of the organization. However, with universal access to computing and the diverse means of connecting such devices to each another and to the global Internet, work carried out has shifted outside one central physical location to encompass a variety of possib...

ICT has provided the infrastructure to enable easy access to scientific information. Despite this, libraries are suffering from the rising of journal subscriptions. Additionally, the structure of scholarly publications is creating a wasteful situation where publicly funded research is being paid for several times over. University libraries are struggling to deal with these new realities at the ...

This study is based on the data from a survey of catalog use at three university libraries and one public library. Both “known-item” searches and “subject” searches were analyzed. The characteristics of the user population were examined and methodological problems of the survey were discussed. A relation was found between the academic rank of the catalog users and type of search that they carry...

A wide range of metadata projects in Denmark over the last 4-5 years are described. A new Danish legal deposit act in 1997 facilitated cooperation in the creation of a common application form for Danish Dublin Core including the basic fifteen elements and four sub-elements. The form is used for creation of metadata in government publications and as application form for legal deposit and inclusi...

The theory-driven Electronic Health Information for LifeLong Learners via Collaborative Learning (eHILLL-CL) intervention, developed and tested in public libraries, aims to improve older adults’ e-health literacy. A total of 172 older adults participated in this study from August 2009 to June 2010. Significant differences were found from pretest to posttest in general computer/Web knowledge and...