Using Technology to Support Equity and Inclusion in Youth Library Programming: Current Practices and Future Opportunities

Subramaniam, Mega; Scaff, Ligaya; Kawas, Saba; Hoffman, Kelly M.; Davis, Katie

doi:10.1086/699267

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“…In addition, the creation of digital games by youth reportedly promotes their media and information literacy (Costa et al, 2020). Similarly, Subramaniam et al (2018) have demonstrated the crucial role of public youth librarians in developing inclusive learning environments incorporating digital media technologies. Further investigation into children's digital library services is therefore strongly recommended.…”

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A novel methodology for surveying children for designing library services: A case study of the Municipal Library of Prague

Stejskal¹,

Hájek

Černý³

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Recognizing individual needs and customer preferences is key to succeeding and increasing competitiveness in both the commercial and public sectors. In the public sector, this is one of the ways to increase the efficiency of public funds allocated to public libraries. However, in order to make the right decisions, library management needs quality information about preferences and consumer behaviour, even from customers who cannot be the subject of routine research due to their young age. Therefore, this article proposes a new methodology for surveying children in order to design library services. The proposed methodology, which integrates principles from ethnographic and sociological methods, aims to overcome the problems of conventional sociological methods, such as how to conceive a child as a respondent and how to determine their preferences from hypothetical situations. This article uses a specially designed questionnaire tool to identify preferences, behaviour and information from children (as visitors of a library). The authors learned that Czech children went to the library primarily for books and games. In addition, the data from the questionnaire revealed patterns in the children’s and adults’ behaviour when visiting the library. All of the data in this article can be used for further research into consumer behaviour.

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confidence: 99%

A novel methodology for surveying children for designing library services: A case study of the Municipal Library of Prague

Stejskal¹,

Hájek

Černý³

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…Prior literature has identified underserved families as having the most to gain from leveraging funds of knowledge, given their limited physical access to technology and inadequate access to digital literacy instruction (Davis & Fullerton, ; Subramaniam, Scaff, Kawas, Hoffman, & Davis, ). Our findings regarding some of the less‐protective privacy practices families described imply that they may not have accumulated sufficient funds of knowledge to develop safe privacy practices.…”

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Leveraging funds of knowledge to manage privacy practices in families

Subramaniam

Kumar

Morehouse

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Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Information and communication technologies play a critical role at home, school, and work for people of all ages. At the same time, use of these technologies can present challenges to privacy and security. In this study, we apply the concept of funds of knowledge to understand how families develop knowledge and skills around using technology and protecting personal information. Funds of knowledge explains how people gain knowledge and highlights how learning happens in a variety of environments beyond the classroom. Through interviews with 52 families living in economically disadvantaged communities in the United States, we develop a typology of privacy funds of knowledge in families. We also explore how privacy funds of knowledge inform families' privacy practices. We conclude the paper by identifying how these findings inform the development of resources for families to further enhance their digital practices.

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“…Through integrated STEM education, such as Project Lead The Way, students "investigate solutions to real world problems through designing, expressing, testing and revising their ideas" (Stohlmann, et al, 2012, p. 30). Other authors have pointed out the good influence of library-based STEM education on minorities and girls (Subramaniam, et al, 2018;Wang & Degol, 2013;Wang & Degol, 2017). Early STEM education in schools could lower the gender gap in the pursuit of careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.…”

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STEM Library Activities in Croatian Primary School Curriculums

Rendulić¹

2019

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The goal of this paper is to give an overall picture of STEM activities in school curriculums supported by school librarians. Research methodology used to examine described problem is primary qualitative content analysis of Croatian primary schools curriculums, as a main document for planning of all school activities. The research included school curriculums of 854 Croatian primary schools that were available on their official web pages among overall 904, according to the official list provided by Ministry of Science and Education in Croatia (Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja Republike Hrvatske, 2019). Considering the duration, research is transferable since it relies only on school year 2018./2019. and gives a general picture of the STEM activities in school curriculum associated to librarians. Findings are divided in several detected categories: science, green libraries, technology, engineering, math and extracurricular activities.

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Using Technology to Support Equity and Inclusion in Youth Library Programming: Current Practices and Future Opportunities

Cited by 30 publications

References 13 publications

A novel methodology for surveying children for designing library services: A case study of the Municipal Library of Prague

A novel methodology for surveying children for designing library services: A case study of the Municipal Library of Prague

Leveraging funds of knowledge to manage privacy practices in families

STEM Library Activities in Croatian Primary School Curriculums

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