Information needed to cope with crisis in the lives of individuals and communities : an assessment of the roles public libraries and voluntary sector agencies play in the provision of such information

Muela-Meza, Zapopan Martín Information needed to cope with crisis in the lives of individuals and communities : an assessment of the roles public libraries and voluntary sector agencies play in the provision of such information., 2004 [Preprint]

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Paper submitted for the PhD in Information Studies at the University of Sheffield for the Research Training Program modules. This paper discuss the provision of community information services as mean to help people in the communities to cope with their daily life needs and issues. The two broader categories found are: survival information (related to health, housing, income, legal protection, economic opportunity, political rights, etc) and citizen action information (needed for an effective participation of individuals and members of groups in the social, political, legal, economic process. Analysis several roles public libraries and voluntary sector agencies should play in the provision of such a service: 1) roles with social responsibility, and social change; 2) roles to seek and foster the welfare of the working classes, the disadvantaged, the poor, the needed and the social excluded; 3) roles to alleviate and ameliorate all kinds of inequalities in the society; 4) roles with a political and social commitment to foster the values of democracy and respect for human rights such the right to know, the right to be informed, the right to information access and so on; a committment towards the liberation of information; 5) roles to seek for the free of charge production, organization, and dissemination of the information; 6) roles to promote community based research, like using the community profiling tools with qualitative methods to gather accurate data and updating, and monitoring the users needs in their real environment.

Item type: Preprint
Keywords: Public libraries and voluntary sectory information providers; community information; community profiling and analysis of information needs; roles of librarians to help people cope with their daily life issues through of information
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BH. Information needs and information requirements analysis.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BA. Use and impact of information.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DC. Public libraries.
Depositing user: Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza
Date deposited: 14 Apr 2005
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:00
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/6211

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