book: Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library

book: Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library | Joan C. Durrance, Karen E. Pettigrew ...

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	• Online Community Information: Creating a Nexus at Your Library Joan C. Durrance, Karen E. Pettigrew American Library Association, 2002 - 191 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Setting up and managing an Internet community network

The collaboration of Joan C. Durrance (Professor, University of Michigan School of Information) and Karen E. Pettigrew (Assistant Professor, Information School of the University of Washington), Online Community Information: Creating A Nexus At Your Library is dedicated to helping librarians better serve the needs of their patrons in the 21st century. Individual chapters clearly spell out effective methods for setting up and managing an Internet community network that is useful, functional and practical. Online Community Information is especially recommended for librarians who want to their academic, community, corporate, or governmental library to be the best it can be in this modern information age of cyberspace, computerized data banks, and the World Wide Web.

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Librarians are key players in bringing communities together. With the help of the Internet, they are in a position to revolutionize the way users access information and come together as a result. Indeed, libraries can function as both hubs to circulate local, national, and global information and as networks of local agencies, nonprofits, community activities, resources, events, and contacts. Building from detailed research, this forward-looking new book addresses the ways that libraries can harness the power of the Internet to provide digitized community information to local audiences. Using its proven methods, hands-on tools, and best practices developed in libraries across the country, any library can design and build a dynamic and unifying community information site. Featuring three of the nation's leading community network sites (Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Free-Net, Suburban Chicago's NorthStarNet, and Portland, Oregon's CascadeLink), expert author team Durrance and Pettigrew outline innovative ways to present information for and about your community. Featured are 23 examples of best practices from libraries around the country that help you approach: * Access issues and the digi

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