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Main Authors: Molz, Redmond Kathleen, Dain, Phyllis
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1999
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED439716
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author Molz, Redmond Kathleen
Dain, Phyllis
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Dain, Phyllis
Molz, Redmond Kathleen
Dain, Phyllis
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contents Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age. Molz, Redmond Kathleen Dain, Phyllis Government Role Information Technology Library Development Library Role Library Services Public Libraries This book assesses the current condition and direction of the American public library. It considers the challenges and opportunities presented by new electronic technologies, changing public policy, fiscal realities, and cultural trends. The authors draw on site visits and interviews conducted across the country, as well as extensive reading of reports, surveys, and other documents, combining a scholarly, humanistic, and historical approach to public libraries with a clear-eyed look at their problems and prospects and their role in the emerging national information infrastructure. Chapters include: (1) The Mission: Consensus and Contradiction; (2) The Institution: Governance and Funding; (3) The National Perspective: The Federal Role in Library Infrastructure; (4) The National Perspective: The National Information Infrastructure; and (5) The Institution: Services, Technology, and Communities. An appendix lists sites visited and interviewees. Contains chapter notes and an index. (AEF)
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spellingShingle Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age.
Molz, Redmond Kathleen
Dain, Phyllis
Government Role
Information Technology
Library Development
Library Role
Library Services
Public Libraries
Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age. Molz, Redmond Kathleen Dain, Phyllis Government Role Information Technology Library Development Library Role Library Services Public Libraries This book assesses the current condition and direction of the American public library. It considers the challenges and opportunities presented by new electronic technologies, changing public policy, fiscal realities, and cultural trends. The authors draw on site visits and interviews conducted across the country, as well as extensive reading of reports, surveys, and other documents, combining a scholarly, humanistic, and historical approach to public libraries with a clear-eyed look at their problems and prospects and their role in the emerging national information infrastructure. Chapters include: (1) The Mission: Consensus and Contradiction; (2) The Institution: Governance and Funding; (3) The National Perspective: The Federal Role in Library Infrastructure; (4) The National Perspective: The National Information Infrastructure; and (5) The Institution: Services, Technology, and Communities. An appendix lists sites visited and interviewees. Contains chapter notes and an index. (AEF)
title Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Information Age.
topic Government Role
Information Technology
Library Development
Library Role
Library Services
Public Libraries
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED439716