Policy Issues in Assessing the Role of Public Libraries in the NII

9454732 McClure本研究“评估公共图书馆在国家创新创新中角色的政策问题”的目的是为了更好地理解公共图书馆在国家创新创新中可能承担的教育角色和责任。更具体地说，这项研究的目标是：开发描述公共图书馆在国家图书馆中可能承担的替代角色和责任（特别是与公共教育和扫盲有关的角色和责任）的模型。根据标准评估这些模式的影响，如(1)促进普遍获取网络信息，(2)成本，(3)培训和人员需求等。分析现有的联邦公共图书馆政策体系，以确定该政策体系可能需要改变的程度，以实现行政当局关于国家公共图书馆的政策目标。提供政策建议，修订和扩展现有的公共图书馆政策体系，以促进与公共图书馆在国际图书馆联盟中的新角色相关的拟议政策目标。事实上，如果要实现政府“到2000年将美国的每个教室、每个诊所、每个图书馆（和）每个医院连接到国家信息高速公路”的目标，就必须进行针对这些目标的政策研究。

9454732 McClure The purpose of this research, "Policy Issues in Assessing the Role of Public Libraries in the NII," is to better understand the possible education roles and responsibilities that public libraries might assume in the NII. More specifically, the study has as its objectives to: Develop models that describe alternative roles and responsibilities (especially as they relate to public education and literacy) that public libraries might assume in the NII. Assess the impacts of these models in terms of criteria such as (1) promotion of universal access to networked information, (2) costs, (3) training and personnel requirements, etc. Analyze the existing Federal public library policy system to determine the degree to which that policy system might have to be changed to accomplish the Administration's policy objectives regarding public libraries in NII. Offer policy recommendations to revise and extend the existing public library policy system to promote proposed policy objectives related to a new role for public libraries in the NII. Policy research that addresses these objectives is essential if, in fact, the Administration's goal to "connect every classroom, every clinic, every library (and) every hospital in America into the national information superhighway by the year 2000" is to be realized.