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Over the past fifteen years, the dramatic increase of online
self-help legal re-sources, information, and tools specifically
developed for use by low-income individuals without legal counsel
has been promoted as one way to help those individuals who are
caught in this "justice gap." Unfortunately, however, opportunities
arising from the Internet and related information and communication
technologies do not accrue to everyone equally as physical,
intellectual, and social barriers to information persist. Access to
Information, Technology, and Justice: A Critical Intersection, as
the first ever book length examination of the use of technology to
expand access to justice in the United States, highlights an
emerging paradox wherein the technological transformation that has
created an increasing array of legal self-help resources and
services is also creating barriers to access for disadvantaged
individuals. Those who cannot read, those who do not speak the
English language, those who are unfamiliar with the law, and those
with limited digital literacy skills all find themselves at a
fundamental disadvantage. The legal community has only begun to
examine whether these resources and services are, in fact, meeting
the needs of struggling self-help users. This book builds upon
existing work in this area by undertaking an in-depth exploration
of how information and communication technologies are changing -
and failing to change - the legal in-formation landscape for those
who most need this information. Drawing upon the ongoing
collaborative efforts of legal aid organizations, libraries,
courts, and non-profit organizations, this book provides a
framework for removing barriers to equitable access to legal
information, with the ultimate goal of encouraging continued
discussion and action.
Libraries, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Enabling Access and
Promoting Inclusion examines the interrelationships between digital
literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the
impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and
communities to successfully participate in the information society.
It is the first large-scale consideration of digital literacy and
digital inclusion as policy problems and provides policy
recommendations to promote digital literacy and digital inclusion.
This book is intended to help librarians better understand and
articulate their roles in promoting human rights and social
justice, as well as to educate policymakers, government officials,
professionals in other fields, and researchers in other disciplines
about the contributions of libraries to human rights and social
justice. It explores the intersections of information, human
rights, and social justice from a range of perspectives and
addresses the differing roles of library institutions (public,
school, academic, and special libraries), library professionals,
professional organizations, governments, and library patrons.
Discussion focuses on the practical side of human rights and avoids
most of the philosophical discussions of the term. Similarly, this
book emphasizes the practical nature of social justice and the
social and societal structures that foster equality. Related issues
of digital literacy and digital inclusion are considered as
essential to providing information in human rights and social
justice contexts. Digital literacy, the ability to use the Internet
to meet information, combines with access to the Internet in order
to successfully apply the skills of digital literacy is discussed
under the topic of digital inclusion. These topics are discussed
through legal, policy, social, cultural, and economic lenses.
Issues are examined both in terms of efforts to support equity in
communities as a whole and the efforts intended to promote equity
in specific disadvantaged or marginalized populations, such as the
homeless, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the
socioeconomically disadvantaged. Many examples of the issues
discussed are drawn from the original research that the authors
have conducted. The ideas and suggestions in this book should help
members of the library community understand where their roles
related to human rights and social justice originate, how they fit
within the broader policy context, how to improve their related
services and practices, and how to advocate for better support of
these roles. The authors of this book have been involved in this
research for many years and this breadth allows the book to offer
comprehensive policy recommendations, solutions, and best practices
for an area that is currently extremely fragmented. The writing is
at a level to make it useful to undergraduate and postgraduate
students, researchers, and policy makers.
Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the
authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of
public policy, political discourse, and public libraries, this book
seeks to understand the origins and implications of the current
standing of public libraries in public policy and political
discourse. It both explains the complex current circumstances and
offers strategies for effectively creating a better future for
public libraries. The main message is that there is a pressing need
for public librarians and other supporters of public libraries to
be: 1.Aware of the political process and its implications for
libraries; 2.Attuned to the interrelationships between policy and
politics; and 3.Engaged in the policy process to articulate the
need for policies that support public libraries. The style is both
scholarly and accessible to general readers, with the goal of being
useful to students, educators, researchers, practitioners, and
friends of public libraries in library and information science. It
will also be usefull for those engaged in areas of public policy,
government, economics, and political science who are interested in
the relationships between public libraries, public policy, and
political processes. Building upon the discussion of the key
issues, the book offers proposals for professional, policy-making,
and political strategies that can strengthen the public library and
its ability to meet the needs of individuals and communities. The
discussion and analysis in the book draw upon data and real world
examples from the many studies that the authors have conducted on
related topics, including libraries' outreach to increasingly
diverse service populations and efforts to meet community needs
through innovative partnerships. As the intersection of politics,
policy, and libraries has grown in importance and complexity in
recent years, the need for a book on their interrelationships is
long overdue.
This introductory textbook aims to provide undergraduate students
in information science and related disciplines with an applied
grounding in information behavior. The book's primary focus is to
provide explicit links between information behavior and the careers
that students will pursue within the information professions. With
a deeper understanding of information behavior, students will be
better equipped to address the many types of barriers that
frequently prevent people from effectively and efficiently
accessing, understanding, managing, and/or using the information
they need in the "real world." The first six chapters of the book
provide students with the fundamental building blocks of
information behavior, introduce them to important related concepts,
and provide a deep dive into information literacy, digital
literacy, the digital divide and digital inclusion. Chapters 7
through 12 introduce students to the scholarly communication
system, providing guidance on how to find, read, and critically
evaluate information behavior studies. Also explored in these
chapters are the various methods used to investigate and understand
people's information behaviors. Topics covered include research
design, research methods, research ethics, user needs assessment,
and human-computer interaction and associated design methods. This
part of the book also covers some of the major information behavior
models and theories that have been developed to describe, predict,
and/or explain people's information behaviors. In chapters 13
through 16, the authors provide an in-depth look into their own
information behavior research areas, including consumer health
information behavior and health justice; youth information
behavior; legal information behavior and access to justice; and
information behavior in libraries. In the final chapter, students
are first introduced to a wide range of careers within the
information professions and then taken along on a deep dive into 10
specific jobs, with a special focus on the thread of information
behavior that pervades the roles and responsibilities commonly
associated with these positions. Each chapter begins with one or
more scenarios illustrating concepts covered in the chapter and
ends with discussion questions.
This introductory textbook aims to provide undergraduate students
in information science and related disciplines with an applied
grounding in information behavior. The book's primary focus is to
provide explicit links between information behavior and the careers
that students will pursue within the information professions. With
a deeper understanding of information behavior, students will be
better equipped to address the many types of barriers that
frequently prevent people from effectively and efficiently
accessing, understanding, managing, and/or using the information
they need in the "real world." The first six chapters of the book
provide students with the fundamental building blocks of
information behavior, introduce them to important related concepts,
and provide a deep dive into information literacy, digital
literacy, the digital divide and digital inclusion. Chapters 7
through 12 introduce students to the scholarly communication
system, providing guidance on how to find, read, and critically
evaluate information behavior studies. Also explored in these
chapters are the various methods used to investigate and understand
people's information behaviors. Topics covered include research
design, research methods, research ethics, user needs assessment,
and human-computer interaction and associated design methods. This
part of the book also covers some of the major information behavior
models and theories that have been developed to describe, predict,
and/or explain people's information behaviors. In chapters 13
through 16, the authors provide an in-depth look into their own
information behavior research areas, including consumer health
information behavior and health justice; youth information
behavior; legal information behavior and access to justice; and
information behavior in libraries. In the final chapter, students
are first introduced to a wide range of careers within the
information professions and then taken along on a deep dive into 10
specific jobs, with a special focus on the thread of information
behavior that pervades the roles and responsibilities commonly
associated with these positions. Each chapter begins with one or
more scenarios illustrating concepts covered in the chapter and
ends with discussion questions.
This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents
original research exploring the modern state of democracies and
social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health
and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently
facing libraries as institutions. It details the best practices of
library programs that provide political literacy education and
promote civic engagement within communities. These practices
include ways in which libraries can help diffuse political
polarization, address significant policy issues of our day, promote
political information literacy, support civic engagement, and
facilitate participation in democratic processes. Libraries and the
Global Retreat of Democracy: Confronting Polarization,
Misinformation, and Suppression is structured in three sections -
questions of personal and state democracy, investigations of how
the information infrastructure shapes these democracies, and
explorations of the ways that libraries can and do contribute to
democracy. Situating libraries within political conversations,
highlighting their centrality to these discussions, Libraries and
the Global Retreat of Democracy focuses on how libraries coordinate
their work in political and information literacy and how these
efforts can be improved, he recommendations and examples within
which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.
Academic, public, school, and special libraries are all
institutions of human rights and social justice, with an
increasingly apparent commitment to equality, to ethical principles
based on rights and justice, and to programs that meet needs
related to human rights and social justice. Key topics at the
intersection of information, human rights, social justice, and
technology include information access and literacy, digital
inclusion, education, and social services, among many others.
Edited by Ursula Gorham, Natalie Greene Taylor, and Paul T. Jaeger,
this volume is devoted to the ideals, activities, and programs in
libraries that protect human rights and promote social justice.
With contributions from researchers, educators, and practitioners
from a range of fields, this book is an important resource for
library professionals in all types of libraries, a reference for
researchers and educators about all types of libraries, and an
introduction to those in other fields about the contributions of
libraries to human rights and social justice.
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