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Libraries, Their Communities, And White Flight: A Social Impact Assessment Of Public Libraries In The Jackson Metro Area, Wesley Craft

Honors Theses

In 1969, federal courts forced Mississippi to integrate public schools. Following, droves of white families moved out of Jackson for suburbs in nearby Madison and Rankin Counties. Today, the Jackson metro area is the most partisan segregated and among the top five racially segregated metro areas in the U.S. (Dottle, 2019). With that in mind, I sought to find out: How do libraries in the Jackson metro area impact their communities, and do disparities exist between Jackson’s libraries and white flight libraries?

I researched seven libraries inside the metro area’s three library systems –– three libraries in Jackson and four …

Buenas Prácticas En La Interacción Lúdica En Bibliotecas Públicas, Cindy Lorena Reyes Suárez

Sistemas de Información, Bibliotecología y Archivística

En el presente documento se muestra de forma detallada de la utilidad del uso de las buenas prácticas lúdicas en la actividad que se desarrolla en las bibliotecas públicas, ya que las mismas permiten promover a las diferentes opciones y recursos disponibles para que las personas se acerquen y disfruten de los servicios que prestan dichos establecimientos. Es importante destacar el hecho de que es deber de los profesionales en bibliotecología desarrollar estrategias que sean llamativas y útiles a las personas que habitan en la periferia de las diferentes bibliotecas, ya que estos son los primeros usuarios en llegar y …

Public Librarians' Adoption Of Technology In Two Southeastern States, Ashley Ea Dowdy

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Public libraries have become community hubs of technology, changing the responsibilities of public librarians. The problem is a gap between public library technology needs, the skills librarians have with technologies, and the strategies they use to acquire skills. The purpose of this predictive, sequential, explanatory mixed method study was to examine public librarians' attitudes about learning new technology and their behavioral intention to adopt it. Two frameworks guided this study: the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model and the diffusion of innovations theory. Quantitative data (N= 202) were collected by survey and analyzed through multiple linear regression …