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Civic Space/Cyberspace

Author : Redmond Kathleen Molz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262263653
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Civic Space/Cyberspace written by Redmond Kathleen Molz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-03-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessentially American institutions, symbols of community spirit and the American faith in education, public libraries are ubiquitous in the United States. Close to a billion library visits are made each year, and more children join summer reading programs than little league baseball. Public libraries are local institutions, as different as the communities they serve. Yet their basic services, techniques, and professional credo are essentially similar; and they offer, through technology and cooperative agreements, myriad materials and information far beyond their own walls. In Civic Space/Cyberspace, Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain assess the current condition and direction of the American public library. They consider the challenges and opportunities presented by new electronic technologies, changing public policy, fiscal realities, and cultural trends. They draw on site visits and interviews conducted across the country; extensive reading of reports, surveys, and other documents; and their long-standing interest in the library's place in the social and civic structure. The book uniquely combines a scholarly, humanistic, and historical approach to public libraries with a clear-eyed look at their problems and prospects, including their role in the emerging national information infrastructure.

Libraries Beyond Their Institutions

Author : Rita Pellen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317954874
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Libraries Beyond Their Institutions written by Rita Pellen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover collaborative possibilities for your library beyond mere memberships in bibliographic utilities Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work illustrates the remarkable range of cooperative activities in which libraries are engaged in order to provide the best possible service. Increasingly, librarians recognize the need to link their institutions to the world around them as part of their obligation to enhance the integration of digital information, not only for students in academic settings, but also throughout all levels of society. An excellent companion and complement to Libraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations (Haworth) from the same editors, this unique book examines the variety of ways librarians work with community organizations, government agencies, professional organizations, minority communities, and city governments in their efforts to serve not just students in academic settings, but all of society. Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work reflects the growing understanding of the key role played by libraries in the development of civil society. This unique book examines the variety of possibilities for collaborations outside institutions, including the ways librarians function in a variety of other campus settings, such as writing centers, teaching excellence centers, and academic departments in support of teaching, learning, and research; partnerships with graduate school, and information resources management to preserve theses and dissertations electronically; promoting civic partnerships; initiating a campus-wide information literacy resource; and partnering with government agencies to form a data literacy program. Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work provides practical information on: collaborative training programs to develop baseline competencies in academic libraries to support data services the Chicano/Latino Network and the Community Digital Initiative developing an international presence through digital resource sharing successful models of statewide library consortia technology-based partnerships promoting K-20 information literacy collaborations between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and patent and trademark depository libraries (PTDL) the development of AgEcon Search, an alternative method of delivering research results Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work is an invaluable resource for librarians working in academic, school, special, and public settings, and for library science faculty and students.

Democracy in the Digital Age

Author : Anthony G. Wilhelm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135960771
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in the Digital Age written by Anthony G. Wilhelm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Civic Space

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786167733203
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (332 download)

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Download or read book Civic Space written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cybering Democracy

Author : Diana Saco
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452904665
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Cybering Democracy written by Diana Saco and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cybering Democracy, Diana Saco boldly reconceptualizes the relationship between democratic participation and spatial realities both actual and virtual. She argues that cyberspace must be viewed as a produced social space, one that fruitfully confounds the ordering conventions of our physical spaces.

OECD Public Governance Reviews Civic Space Review of Portugal Towards People-Centred, Rights-Based Public Services

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264927492
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book OECD Public Governance Reviews Civic Space Review of Portugal Towards People-Centred, Rights-Based Public Services written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civic Space Review of Portugal provides an in-depth analysis of the national legal frameworks, policies, institutions, and practices relevant to civic space protection, with an emphasis on harnessing user input to facilitate people-centred public service reforms.

Shaping the Network Society

Author : Douglas Schuler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262264709
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Network Society written by Douglas Schuler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How computer professionals and communities can work together to shape sociotechnical systems that will meet society's challenges. Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are concerned less with bits, bytes, and algorithms and more with productive partnerships that engage both researchers and community activists. These collaborations are producing important sociotechnical work that will affect the future of the network society. Traditionally, academic research on real-world users of technology has been neglected or even discouraged. The authors contributing to this book are working to fill this gap; their theoretical and practical discussions illustrate a new orientation—research that works with people in their natural social environments, uses common language rather than rarefied academic discourse, and takes a pragmatic perspective. The topics they consider are key to democratization and social change. They include human rights in the "global billboard society"; public computing in Toledo, Ohio; public digital culture in Amsterdam; "civil networking" in the former Yugoslavia; information technology and the international public sphere; "historical archaeologies" of community networks; "technobiographical" reflections on the future; libraries as information commons; and globalization and media democracy, as illustrated by Indymedia, a global collective of independent media organizations.

Civic Librarianship

Author : Ronald B. McCabe
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810839052
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Civic Librarianship written by Ronald B. McCabe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of cultural warfare and political gridlock, the U.S. is beginning to find its balance thanks to a major cultural shift toward strengthening communities and other endangered social structures. Civic Librarianship explores the ideas of this new community movement and shows how they can transform public libraries by offering a renewed sense of purpose and powerful new strategies for development.

Reformatting Politics

Author : Jodi Dean
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135442037
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Reformatting Politics written by Jodi Dean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the ways in which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are being used by civil society organizations (CSOs) to achieve their aims through activities and networks that cross national borders. These new ICTs (the internet, mobile phones, satellite radio and television) have allowed these civil society organizations to form extensive networks linking the local and the global in new ways and to flourish internationally in ways that were not possible without them. Reformatting Politics consists of four sections containing essays by some of the top scholars and activists working at the intersections of networked societies, civil society organizations, and information technology. The book also includes a section that takes a critical look at the UN World Summit of Information Society and the role that global governance has played and will play in the use and dissemination of these new technologies. Finally, the contributors aim to influence this important and emerging field of inquiry by posing a set of questions and directions for future research. In sum, Reformatting Politics is a fresh look at the way critical network practice through the use of information technology is reformatting the terms and terrains of global politics.

Trust in Cyberspace

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309131820
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Trust in Cyberspace written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-02-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether or not you use a computer, you probably use a telephone, electric power, and a bank. Although you may not be aware of their presence, networked computer systems are increasingly becoming an integral part of your daily life. Yet, if such systems perform poorly or don't work at all, then they can put life, liberty, and property at tremendous risk. Is the trust that weâ€"as individuals and as a societyâ€"are placing in networked computer systems justified? And if it isn't, what can we do to make such systems more trustworthy? This book provides an assessment of the current state of the art procedures for building trustworthy networked information systems. It proposes directions for research in computer and network security, software technology, and system architecture. In addition, the book assesses current technical and market trends in order to better inform public policy as to where progress is likely and where incentives could help. Trust in Cyberspace offers insights into: The strengths and vulnerabilities of the telephone network and Internet, the two likely building blocks of any networked information system. The interplay between various dimensions of trustworthiness: environmental disruption, operator error, "buggy" software, and hostile attack. The implications for trustworthiness of anticipated developments in hardware and software technology, including the consequences of mobile code. The shifts in security technology and research resulting from replacing centralized mainframes with networks of computers. The heightened concern for integrity and availability where once only secrecy mattered. The way in which federal research funding levels and practices have affected the evolution and current state of the science and technology base in this area. You will want to read this book if your life is touched in any way by computers or telecommunications. But then, whose life isn't?

Realising Democracy Online

Author : Jay G. Blumler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781860301537
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Realising Democracy Online written by Jay G. Blumler and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cyberdemocracy

Author : Cathy Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113469556X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Cyberdemocracy written by Cathy Bryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-04-12 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cyberdemocracy the arguments for and against "electronic democracy" and the potential for information and communication technology are closely examined. Theoretical analysis is supported by a series of empirical case studies.

The New Downtown Library

Author : Shannon Christine Mattern
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816648962
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book The New Downtown Library written by Shannon Christine Mattern and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past twenty years have seen a building boom for downtown public libraries. From Brooklyn to Seattle, architects, civic leaders, and citizens in major U.S. cities have worked to reassert the relevance of the central library. While the libraries’ primary functions—as public spaces where information is gathered, organized, preserved, and made available for use—have not changed over the years, the processes by which they accomplish these goals have. These new processes, and the public debates surrounding them, have radically influenced the utility and design of new library buildings. In The New Downtown Library, Shannon Mattern draws on a diverse range of sources to investigate how libraries serve as multiuse public spaces, anchors in urban redevelopment, civic icons, and showcases of renowned architects like Rem Koolhaas, Cesar Pelli, and Enrique Norton. Mattern’s clear and careful analysis reveals the complexity of contemporary dialogues in library design, highlighting the roles that staff, the public, and other special interest groups play. Mattern also describes how the libraries manifest changing demographics, new ways of organizing collections and delivering media, and current philosophies of librarianship. By identifying unifying themes as well as examining the differences among various design projects, Mattern brings to light the social forces, as well as their architectural expressions, that form the essence of new libraries and their vital place in public life. Featured libraries are located in Brooklyn, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Nashville, New York, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toledo. Shannon Mattern is assistant professor of media studies and film at The New School.

Designing Space for Children and Teens in Libraries and Public Places

Author : Sandra Feinberg
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838910203
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Designing Space for Children and Teens in Libraries and Public Places written by Sandra Feinberg and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing tips, suggestions, and guidelines on the critical issues that surround designing spaces for children and teens, this how-to book will help you create a space that they will never want to leave. This must-have guide includes How to select an architect or design professional The importance of including YA librarians in the design and implementation Information on how children and teens view and use space 20 color photos of example spaces Whether your space is large or small, in a library or public place, this resource will give you creative and practical ideas for using the space to its full potential!

Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy

Author : Natalie Greene Taylor
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839825987
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy written by Natalie Greene Taylor and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, the recommendations and examples within which will serve as inspiration and motivation to its readers.

Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113415187X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spaces, Spatiality and Technology

Author : Phil Turner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402032730
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Spaces, Spatiality and Technology written by Phil Turner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: separated by the exigencies of the design life cycle into another compartment, that makes invisible the (prior) technical work of engineers that is not directly pertinent to the application work of practitioners. More recently (and notably after the work of Greisemer and Star) the black box has been opened and infrastructure has been discussed in terms of the social relations of an extended group of actors that includes developers. Ethical and political issues are involved (cf f accountable computing). Writing broadly within this context, Day (chapter 11) proposes that the concept of 'surface' can assist us to explore space as the product of 'power and the affective and expressive role for materials', rather than the background to this. Surfaces are the 'variously textured...sites for mixtures between bodies', and are thus the 'sites for events'. The notions of 'folding' and 'foldability' and 'unfolding' are discussed at length, as metaphors that account for the interactions of bodies in space across time. Some of the contributors to this volume focus on ways in which we may experience multiple infrastructures. Dix and his colleagues, for example, in chapter 12 explore a complex of models - of spatial context, of 'mixed reality boundaries' and of human spatial understanding across a number of field projects that make up the Equator project to explain the ways in which co-existing multiple spaces are experienced.