Public Libraries in the New Economy: Twenty-First-Century Skills, the Internet, and Community Needs
Public Libraries in the New Economy: Twenty-First-Century Skills, the Internet, and Community Needs
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新经济中的公共图书馆：二十一世纪的技能、互联网和社区需求
DOI：
10.1080/01616846.2012.707106
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
J. Bertot
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作者：
Natalie Greene Taylor;P. Jaeger;Abigail J. McDermott;Christie M. Kodama;J. Bertot
本文探讨了公共图书馆对近年来持续的经济衰退所做出的与互联网相关的反应。在讨论了互联网的出现所带来的经济变化和预期的就业技能之后，本文介绍了图书馆为帮助读者过渡到这种新经济而提供的服务。根据2011-2012年公共图书馆资金和技术获取研究（PLFTAS）调查和对公共图书馆的实地走访的结果，这些数据显示了自持续的长期经济衰退开始以来工作技能和求职服务的变化以及图书馆目前向用户提供的电子信息服务的广度和深度。这些服务旨在满足图书馆所服务的当地社区的需求，依赖于互联网的能力、公共访问技术以及图书馆提供的互联网服务。本文最后讨论了这项研究如何为图书馆、互联网、新经济和二十一世纪技能之间关系的更广泛探索提供信息。
This article examines the Internet-related responses of public libraries to the sustained economic downturn of recent years. Following a discussion of the changes to the economy and the expected skills for employment that have resulted from the advent of the Internet, this article presents the services that libraries are providing to help patrons transition to this new economy. Drawn from the findings of the 2011–2012 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Study (PLFTAS) survey and site visits to public libraries, the data demonstrate the changes in job skills and employment-seeking services since the beginning of the ongoing prolonged economic downturn and the breadth and depth of the electronic information services that libraries currently provide to users. Designed to meet the needs of the local communities that libraries serve, these services rely on the capacities of the Internet, public access technologies, and Internet-enabled services provided by the library. This article concludes with a discussion of the ways in which this research can inform broader explorations of the relationships between libraries, the Internet, the new economy, and twenty-first-century skills.