"The objective of this guide is to help teachers, volunteer teachers and librarians, and community leaders set up libraries where there are none and promote the use of community libraries that already exist. This guide helps community librarians set up libraries while engaging the full community in
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the process. This guide also provides community librarians ways to encourage children to read, to build children’s listening and reading comprehension and social and emotional skills, and to help parents and caregivers learn how they can support their children’s literacy." (Introduction)
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"The article addresses the issue of the digital divide in Ecuador and illustrates how artefacts from television material heritage might be transformed into digital libraries to provide marginalized communities with access to digital information. It describes an ongoing socio-technical project which
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aims at providing Ecuadorian rural communities with access to digital information through the re-functioning of analogue TV sets and other complementary technologies that will become obsolete due to Ecuador’s switch from an analogue to digital broadcasting signal. On one hand, the project is discussed with reference to the contemporary debate in the fields of Media and Television Studies on the obsolesce nce and renewal of technology; And on the other, it is discussed on the background of earlier projects focusing on the design of digital libraries to circulate information and improve digital literacy in rural contexts. Finally, the prototype created is discussed from a technical and conceptual point of view." (Abstract)
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"This is a practical and well structured manual aiming to use self-evaluation for organisational learning. The book consists of four parts. "The evaluation context" introduces the role of monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment as part of the project cycle logic. "The evaluation process" descri
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bes steps to be taken in designing and implementing an evaluation. The third part, "evaluation tools", gives a practical insight to major evaluation methods like SWOT analysis, questionnaires (and their design), focus groups or case studies. The fourth and main part provides evaluation guidelines for training courses, newsletters, websites, small libraries and resource centres, online communities, rural radios, databases and selective dissemination of information services." (CAMECO Update 1-2011)
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"Estimates of the impact of libraries on reading in eight villages in Burkina Faso and costs of running libraries enable us to suggest that the cost of getting an extra book read a year varies from $.74 to $1.30, according to the size of the school in the village, and the cost of an extra school yea
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r equivalent likewise varies from $43.42 to $75.98 per year. These costs are comparable to the costs of increasing schooling, and suggest the desirability of more careful assessment of the choice between schooling and book availability." (Abstract)
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This publication is a reference tool for rural libraries and information professionals mainly in developing countries. The document suggests ways in which the performance and impact of rural ressource centres might be measured. Qualitative and quantitative standards are developed together with techn
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ical guidelines and performance measures of all sorts of rural library and information services.
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"This publication, entitled Book Development in National Communications and Planning, comprises of a basic paper on the role of National Book Development Councils in overall national communication policies and development planning and the two studies on which it is based, namely, Books for the Rural
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Areas of South Asia and Guidelines for Book Development in South and South-East Asia. As a whole, these give a comprehensive overall picture of the book situation in Asia which is hopefully intended to evoke and stimulate essential public and private sector responses resulting in further concerted national efforts in the development of the book industry trade." (Introduction)
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"Descrizione tecnica di un centro di lettura mobile (attrezzature didattiche, televisore, proiettore, registratore, biblioteca) - Funzioni e obiettivi dei centri di lettura mobili nei piccoli villaggi privi di assistenza educativa." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in
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the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 387, topic code 19)
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"Caratteristiche del “Centro di lettura mobile” (Biblioteca itinerante) e descrizione delle attrezzature - Utilizzo nelle zone rurali dove non c'è assistenza sociale." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 386, t
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opic code 19)
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