dc.contributor.author	Hart, Genevieve
dc.date.accessioned	2010-02-18T16:51:23Z
dc.date.available	2010-02-18T16:51:23Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.description	37 slides created with MSWord 2003 and migrated to pdf using Adobe PDF.	en_ZA
dc.description.abstract	Paper presented at the Stellenbosch University Library 2010 Symposium / IFLA Presidential Meeting. Knowing is not enough: Engaging in the knowledge economy, 18 to 19 February 2010. South Africa is aligned with other emerging economies, like Brazil and India, whose voice is growing stronger and who might in future improve their position in the global knowledge economy. But surely the biggest hurdle must be the huge gap in South Africa between rich and poor – claimed by some to be the biggest in the world. More than 48% of South Africans live below the poverty line. Other speakers at the symposium will provide evidence of the role of information in the sustainable development required to narrow the poverty gap. The developed countries of the so-called “North” have systems for easy and wide access to information – by means of e-government, e-medicine, e-education, and, so on. However, less than 10% of South Africans have access to the Internet. This paper will examine the contribution, real and potential, of public libraries to sustainable development. The point of departure is the developmental model of library services proposed in the recent Library & Information Services (LIS) Transformation Charter, a vision document emanating from the National Council of Library and Information Services. The Charter suggests that UNESCO’s eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) might provide a framework for developmental library services. However, the Charter’s country-wide investigations, as well as the speaker’s own research since the late 1990s, have uncovered some of the daunting challenges ahead. The paper will report on two ongoing case studies, which might throw light on how the Charter’s vision could become a reality. One is of a group of dual use school community libraries in a remote rural region and the other focuses on two sister libraries in Cape Town. The argument is that what are often viewed as “outreach” programmes point the way to new models of library service which will be meaningful to far more than the present tiny minority of South African library users.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation	Hart, G. 2010. From “outreach” to new library model?. Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University.	en_ZA
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/390
dc.language.iso	en_ZA	en_ZA
dc.publisher	Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University	en_ZA
dc.subject	Library and Information Services Transformation Charter	en_ZA
dc.subject	Public libraries	en_ZA
dc.subject	School libraries	en_ZA
dc.subject.lcsh	Libraries and community -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Libraries and education -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Library outreach programs -- South Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Community-school libraries -- South Africa
dc.title	From “outreach” to new library model?	en_ZA
dc.title.alternative	From outreach to new models of library service	en_ZA
dc.type	Presentation	en_ZA

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