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

小行星9454732 本研究的目的是“评估公共图书馆在国家信息基础设施中的作用的政策问题”，以更好地了解公共图书馆在国家信息基础设施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： 开发描述替代角色的模型， 责任（特别是与公共利益有关的责任） 教育和扫盲），公共图书馆可能承担， 的NII。 根据以下标准评估这些模式的影响： 作为（1）促进普遍获得网络信息， (2)费用;（3）培训和人员要求等。 分析现有的联邦公共图书馆政策体系， 确定该政策体系可能必须在多大程度上 改变以实现政府的政策 国家信息基础设施公共图书馆的目标。 提供政策建议，以修订和扩大现有的 公共图书馆政策体系推进政策建议 目标与公共图书馆在 NII. 事实上，如果要实现政府的目标，即“到2000年将美国的每一间教室、每一个诊所、每一个图书馆（和）每一家医院连接到国家信息高速公路”，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.