“I’m Not Sure If That’s What Their Job Is”

Harris, Roma; Henwood, Flis; Marshall, Audrey; Burdett, Samantha

doi:10.5860/rusq.49n3.239

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“…They've got that. (Child informant, code name: Ice Cream) Despite public libraries' role in the provision of consumer health information being a live issue in the UK and farther afield [51,52], staff informants similarly did not connect their work, or their workplace, with children's health: It's not common for a child to ask about health. (Library and information advisor, Service Delivery) I'm sorry [the interview] wasn't necessarily super health-based.…”

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Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy

Jenkins

Sykes

Wills

2022

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Critical health literacy enables individuals to use cognitive and social resources for informed action on the wider determinants of health. Promoting critical health literacy early in the life-course may contribute to improved health outcomes in the long term, but children’s opportunities to develop critical health literacy are limited and tend to be school-based. This study applies a settings-based approach to analyse the potential of public libraries in England to be supportive environments for children’s development of critical health literacy. The study adopted institutional ethnography as a framework to explore the public library as an everyday setting for children. A children’s advisory group informed the study design. Thirteen children and 19 public library staff and community stakeholders were interviewed. The study results indicated that the public library was not seen by children, staff, or community stakeholders as a setting for health. Its policies and structure purport to develop health literacy, but the political nature of critical health literacy was seen as outside its remit. A supersetting approach in which children’s everyday settings work together is proposed and a conceptual model of the public library role is presented.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy

Jenkins

Sykes

Wills

2022

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“…A few scholars craft more nuanced positions around these terms. So, in terms of the first usage, a typical example is Harris et al (2010) who surveyed staff and patrons about personal health information seeking; while staff saw their role more as facilitating access than gatekeeping, users saw the library as preforming a useful gatekeeping function in terms of assuring reliability and currency of information, and consequently assigned the library a high level of trust. Similarly, a recent poll (Poll shows growing support, Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, 2015) reports that the public expects libraries to perform a gatekeeping function particularly in school libraries or for children's materials, and may be concerned this function is not applied to ebooks.…”

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“…Similarly, a recent poll (Poll shows growing support, Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, 2015) reports that the public expects libraries to perform a gatekeeping function particularly in school libraries or for children's materials, and may be concerned this function is not applied to ebooks. The distinction in the discourse between "gatekeeping" and "facilitating access" that Harris et al (2010) noted, which depends on a non-technical use of the term "gatekeeping" (see further below), is common elsewhere in the literature; for example, Way (2017, p. 283) introduces his discussion of "collections as a service" with the contrast, "Libraries and librarians no longer serve as gatekeepers of information but are instead facilitators of access," as a truism. Partridge et al (2010) similarly contrast the "gatekeeper" and "facilitator" roles in passing.…”

Section: Gatekeeping In Lis Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Modelling advances in gatekeeping theory for academic libraries

Ojennus

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the appropriateness of gatekeeping theory, particularly its recent elaboration in journalism and communication studies for the investigation of information flows in academic libraries. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses the methods of conceptual analysis and thought experiment. Findings This paper finds that current elaborations of gatekeeping theory are useful for modeling library information flows, particularly identifying and evaluating influences on those flows. It is able to reframe intransigent issues around library neutrality and open access so that more nuanced approaches can be constructed. Originality/value Gatekeeping theory as elaborated by Shoemaker and Vos for journalism and communication studies, while occasionally referenced the library and information science (LIS) literature, has not been previously evaluated as a framework for library information flows. This is the first paper to assess the potential of aspects of the theory such as levels of analysis and multiplicity of channels to reframe issues in LIS.

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“…The role of public libraries in providing health information to various type of users has been already studied in several countries (e.g. Dalmer, 2013, Harris, 2012, and special education programs for public librarians have been developed (Noh, 2013).…”

Section: Aims and Scopementioning

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How Is Information Literacy Related to Social Competences in the Workplace?

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Fastrez

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Information Literacy: Key to an Inclusive Society

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The F our t h Eur ope a n Conf e r e nc e on I nf or ma t i on L i t e r a c y ( ECI L ) Pr a g ue , Cz e c h Re p ub l i c 10-13 Oc t o b e r 2016 4 t h E u r o p e a n C o n f e r e n c e o n I n f o r ma t i o n L i t e r a c y ( ECI L ) P r a g u e , C z e c h R e p . 1 0 -1 3 Oc t . 2 0 1 6 Abs t r a c t s Ab s t r a c t s E d i t o r s : S. Šp i r a ne c , S. Kur b a no ğ l u, H. L a nd o v á , E . Gr a s s i a n, D. Mi z r a c hi , L . -informační společnost informační chování informační gramotnost informační výchova sborníky konferencí -information society -information behavior -information literacy -information education -proceedings of conferences 02 -Knihovnictví. Informatika [12] 020 -Library and information sciences [12]

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“I’m Not Sure If That’s What Their Job Is”

Cited by 26 publications

References 12 publications

Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy

Public Libraries as Supportive Environments for Children’s Development of Critical Health Literacy

Modelling advances in gatekeeping theory for academic libraries

How Is Information Literacy Related to Social Competences in the Workplace?

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