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  • Understanding Human Information Behavior

    When, How, and Why People Interact with Information

    by Beth St. Jean, Ursula Gorham, Elizabeth Bonsignore ...
    This introductory textbook aims to provide undergraduate students in information science and related disciplines with an applied grounding in information behavior. The book’s primary focus is to provide explicit links between information behavior and the careers that students will pursue within the information professions. With a deeper understanding of information behavior, students will be ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Libraries, Human Rights, and Social Justice

    Enabling Access and Promoting Inclusion

    by Paul T. Jaeger, Natalie Greene Taylor, Ursula Gorham ...
    Libraries, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Enabling Access and Promoting Inclusion examines the interrelationships between digital literacy, digital inclusion, and public policy, emphasizing the impacts of these policy decisions on the ability of individuals and communities to successfully participate in the information society. It is the first large-scale consideration of digital literacy and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes

    Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint

    by Paul T. Jaeger, Ursula Gorham, John Carlo Bertot, Lindsay C. Sarin ...
    Drawing on two decades of original research conducted by the authors, as well as existing research about the intersection of public policy, political discourse, and public libraries, this book seeks to understand the origins and implications of the current standing of public libraries in public policy and political discourse. It both explains the complex current circumstances and offers strategies ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Access to Information, Technology, and Justice

    A Critical Intersection

    by Ursula Gorham ...
    Series series Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series
    Over the past fifteen years, the dramatic increase of online self-help legal re-sources, information, and tools specifically developed for use by low-income individuals without legal counsel has been promoted as one way to help those individuals who are caught in this “justice gap.” Unfortunately, however, opportunities arising from the Internet and related information and communication ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Libraries and the Global Retreat of Democracy

    Confronting Polarization, Misinformation, and Suppression

    Edited by Natalie Greene Taylor, Karen Kettnich, Ursula Gorham, Paul T. Jaeger ...
    Series Book 50 - Advances in Librarianship
    This latest volume of the Advances in Librarianship series presents original research exploring the modern state of democracies and social institutions, the contributions of libraries to the health and progress of democracies, and the political problems currently facing libraries as institutions. It details the best practices of library programs that provide political literacy education and ... Read more

    $100.89 USD

  • Perspectives on Libraries as Institutions of Human Rights and Social Justice

    by John Carlo Bertot, Paul T. Jaeger ...
    Series Book 41 - Advances in Librarianship
    Academic, public, school, and special libraries are all institutions of human rights and social justice, with an increasingly apparent commitment to equality, to ethical principles based on rights and justice, and to programs that meet needs related to human rights and social justice. Key topics at the intersection of information, human rights, social justice, and technology include information ... Read more

    $164.89 USD

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  • The Authoritarian Moment

    How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

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  • The Digital Republic

    On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

    by Jamie Susskind ...
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  • Data Action

    Using Data for Public Good

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  • Foundations of Library and Information Science

    by Richard E. Rubin, Rachel G. Rubin ...
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