Scaling Community Through Archives: A National Program to Expand Community Archives

Highlights

Scaling Community Through Archives: A National Program to Expand Community Archives

What methods, tools, and resources do public libraries need to build effective community archives? This project will investigate key questions to help answer these questions and create resources for the wide range of public libraries..

This Site is Fake Dot Com: A novel resource and community model for teaching information literacy.

Collaborating to build a novel teaching resource for information literacy for use by public library staff

The Benefits and Challenges of Community- Powered Connectivity in the New Arctic

What are the social, cultural, and economic implications of increased connectivity for Arctic communities and peoples?

The TASCHA Public Library Initiative aims to generate new ideas for advancing the transformation of public libraries as centers of learning, creativity, and community development.

Public Libraries Initiative

Browse Projects

Information Strategies Curriculum (2016)

What skills are required for developing and implementing successful information-based projects in the digital age? How can informed analyses and appropriate solutions to information problems work for social change?

Mobile Information Literacy Curriculum (2015)

The Mobile Information Literacy curriculum is a growing collection of training materials designed to build information literacies for the millions of people worldwide coming online every month via a mobile phone. Most information and digital literacy curricula were designed for a PC age, and public and private organizations around the world have used these curricula to help...

Innovations for Community-Held Infrastructure (1970)

Launching interdisciplinary research into the design, implementation, and deployment of community-held urban network infrastructure

Research

Highlights