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Access to Information; Information Policy; Information Technology; Intellectual Freedom; Library Associations; Library Role; Library Services; Minority Groups; User Needs (Information)
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This paper provides some of the historical context of the efforts of the American Library Association (ALA) to define, extend, protect and advocate for equity of access, focusing on central tendencies rather than internal debate. The first section, "Toward the Concept of Access," discusses: how ALA became a public service organization; extension and adult education; a federal role for libraries; the role of the library in the post-war world; and the federal aid era. The second section, "Downstream Access," addresses: literacy and lifelong learning; African Americans; ALA, outreach, and equity; people with disabilities; and services to poor and homeless people. The third section, "Protecting and Extending Access," covers: intellectual freedom and "Libraries: An American Value"; a conceptual foundation for a national information policy; "Freedom and Equality of Access to Information"; Special Committee on Freedom and Equality of Access to Information; "Your Right To Know: Librarians Make It Happen"; ALA Goal 2000--Intellectual Participation; ALAction 2005 and "Equity of Access"; and Congresses on Professional Education and Core Values Task Forces. The fourth section, "Upstream Access," discusses: "An Information Agenda for the 1980s"; the active participation of the library community in the formulation and implementation of national information policies; establishment of the Office for Information Technology Policy; "Envisioning a Nation Connected: Librarians Define the Public Interest in the Information Superhighway"; the digital divide; and CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act). The fifth section, "Rocks in the Whirlpool," covers: principles for a networked world; unifying visions for equity of access; and making new technologies work for human development. Each section contains references. (MES)
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2002-01-00 |
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Adult Education; Adult Learning; Library Associations; Library Role; Library Services; Lifelong Learning; Literacy; Literacy Education; Public Libraries
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This chronology highlights milestones for libraries and adult lifelong learning and literacy from 1924-2001, including the following events: William S. Learned's "The American Public Library and the Diffusion of Knowledge" is published (1924); establishment of the ALA (American Library Association) Adult Education Section (1946); the "Great Issues" program adult discussion group launched at ALA (1948); funding of the America Heritage Project (1951); funding of the ALA Office of Adult Education (1952); the ALA Adult Services Division (ASD) established (1957); the Adult Education Act (1966); adoption of the "Library Rights of Adults" (1970); merger of ASD and RSD (Reference Services Division) (1972); White House Conference on Library and Information Services (1979); founding of the National Coalition for Literacy (1981); Adult Services in the Eighties project (1983-1990); Library Literacy Program (1986-1995); ALA Literacy Assembly convenes (1989); White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services (1991); ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services changes name (1995); ALA adopts literacy as one of five key action areas (1998); development of a national literacy agenda with focus on the role of libraries (1999); National Literacy Summit (2000); and ALA Standing Committee on Literacy established (2001). Reports on related issues are listed throughout. (Contains 48 references.) (MES)
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2000-00-00 |
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Community Development; Community Planning; Librarians; Library Role; Library Services; Public Libraries; Public Service
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While librarians deliver a vital public service within diverse communities, they are often invisible in the community development process initiated by civic planners, activists, and local government officials. This book challenges librarians everywhere to get involved early and often by demanding a place at the community planning and development table. Chapter 1 reviews the many dimensions of community, including issues surrounding enterprise and empowerment zones, suburbs, edge cities, and "fortress America." Chapter 2 discusses the recognition that diversity is a vigorous hope for a new society and identifies the strains on community building created by income disparity and a growing inequity between rich and poor. Tying current library planning initiatives to community visioning initiatives is the focus of Chapter 3, and factors for successful community building are presented in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 provides examples of community building by librarians, cybercommunity building is discussed in Chapter 6, Chapter 7 connects examples of the work librarians do with comprehensive community building initiatives (CCIs), and Chapter 8 focuses on new models of work. The final chapter is a reminder for librarians that by joining past traditions to future opportunities with a sustained dedication to service, librarians will be valued as equal partners in community building enterprises. (AEF)
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1998-08-00 |
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Information Technology; Library Collections; Library Development; Library History; Library Personnel; Library Services; Library Statistics; Library Surveys; Public Libraries; State Programs
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The Florida Library History Project (FLHP) began in January 1998. Letters requesting histories were sent to all public libraries in Florida with follow-up letters sent after an initial response was received from the libraries. E-mail messages were sent out to FL-LIB listservs encouraging participation in the project. A poster session was presented by Catherine Jasper at the 1998 Florida Library Association (FLA) Annual Conference, an event that marked FLA's 75th anniversary. At the end of this funding period, 89 library systems and organizations had provided histories. These have been compiled and are reproduced in this volume as submitted by participating libraries. Highlights include library founding, collections, services, budgets and expenditures, personnel, funding, survey results, technology, and developments. (AEF)
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