| Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England [book review] |
2010 |
382 |
How do we understand the history of the archival profession? This question grounds ElizabethShepherd’s analysis of archives and archivists in England. Shepherd’s comprehensive survey ispacked full of information, yet is approachable by the American a... |
| The Community-Based Information Infrastructure of Older Adult Digital Learning: A Study of Public Libraries and Senior Centers in a Medium-sized City in the USA |
2017 |
490 |
In the United States of America, senior centers and public libraries are ubiquitous socialinstitutions found in virtually every municipality. This article analyses these institutions ascommunity-based information infrastructure in the digital learnin... |
| Cyberorganizing Everyday Heritage in and around Public Libraries: An Exploratory Study in Illinois |
2014 |
1276 |
Trends from both within and without public librarianship create new opportunities for libraries to serve the public’s interest in heritage information. Based on a workshop series in Illinois, this article presents exploratory findings on existing pub... |
| Family trees: A history of genealogy in America [book review] |
2014 |
370 |
As François Weil, chancellor of the Universities of Paris and past president of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, uses the term, genealogy refers both to the science of tracking lineages and to “personal interest in one’s forebears” (... |
| Free and for all? A comparative study of programs with user fees in North American and Danish public libraries |
2020 |
1125 |
Purpose. As a research topic within the field of LIS, programs in public libraries are underexplored and the question of user fees for programs has not previously been addressed.Design/methodology/approach. This article compares data collected from t... |
| The Intermediation of Community and Infrastructure |
2017 |
1152 |
The concepts of community and infrastructure reverberate throughout the information sciences. As digital information technology becomes ubiquitous in work and everyday life, scholars analyze how communities adapt to, and adapt, information infrastruc... |
| Let’s Move! Fitness Programming in Public Libraries |
2017 |
1850 |
Public libraries increasingly offer fitness programming, which includes yoga, running groups, and story times that involve exercise. This article assesses this trend by 1) analyzing the social forces that have led this programming to increase and 2) ... |
| Mídia Cidadã: Utopia Brasileira [book review] |
2011 |
262 |
On November 28-30, 2005, a group of Brazilian academics and activists came together at the Methodist University of São Paulo to discuss “Media Citizenship.” The conference participants, in the collective manifesto that resulted from the event, state:... |
| Research note: Measuring the globalization of knowledge: The case of community informatics |
2013 |
332 |
Freely accessible online, with a wide set of authors and a wider readership, First Monday can be seen as striving for global knowledge on the social aspects of the Internet. In a meta–analysis now underway, we found First Monday to be the third most ... |
| South Carolina Public Libraries & Health: Needs and Opportunities |
2022 |
1346 |
In August 2021, the South Carolina Center for Rural and Primary Healthcare partnered with the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to produce South Carolina Public Libraries & Health: Needs and Opportunities. The study documented a range of way... |
| Student Wellness through Physical Activity Promotion in the Academic Library |
2020 |
1220 |
A review of the literature written by academic librarians about how and why they promote physical activity reveals three types of initiatives: special programs, new uses of library spaces, and new collections. Librar¬ies now offer yoga during finals,... |
| What Are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader [book review] |
2007 |
593 |
In the preface to What Are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives: A Reader, LouiseCraven, head of cataloging at the National Archives, United Kingdom, argues that archivistsneed to abandon their insular self-perception and “adopt a wider pe... |