Library Trends articles from September 2007

Library Trends archives from September 2007

Introduction: gender issues in information needs and services.
September 22, 2007... Are gender issues in information needs and services really a "trend" worthy of examination in the first decade of the twenty-first century? Isn't this a passe topic? Aren't we well into the "post-feminist" era? As the editors of this issue,...

Public library response to women and their changing roles revisited.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Updating research done in 1980, the authors survey the current status of programming for women in public libraries, concentrating on the largest U.S. public libraries. The designation of National Women's History Month was...

Women and the public library: using technology, using the library.(Table)
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT In today's rapidly changing world of technology and information, libraries find themselves trying to understand more about their users. The results of a qualitative survey of 184 women library patrons give insight into why and...

Raising the archival consciousness: how women's archives challenge traditional approaches to collecting and use, or, what's in a name?
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT This article examines archival collecting, taking as case studies two women's archives. Drawing on their experiences building the collections of the Archives of Women in Science and Engineering (Iowa State University) and the...

New perspectives: an analysis of gender, net-generation children, and computers.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT In the Project CATE (Children's Access to and Use of Technology Evaluation), based on grades 4-8 children's responses from surveys, focus group participations, and observations in the Saint Louis Public Library, girls' attitudes...

The female-friendly public library: gender differences in adolescents' uses and perceptions of U.S. public libraries.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT This article reports the results of a written survey of ninety-seven female and male adolescents, ages fourteen through seventeen, at two U.S. public libraries. In addition to exploring gender-related variance in the reasons for...

Developing children's interest in reading.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Librarians have always discussed methods of developing children's interest in reading, but they have focused more on the books being read than on the act of reading. Although many touted the need to "establish the reading...

Women's health: librarian as social entrepreneur.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT It may take up to two decades before research findings become routinely used in clinical practice (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2001). Librarians are uniquely positioned to maximize the accessibility of...

Women's studies databases: a critical comparison of three databases for core journals in women and gender studies.(Table)
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT In the last decade, online databases in the field of women and gender studies have matured. There are now a variety of bibliographic and full text databases available, both free on the Internet and through fee-based...

Biographical reference works for and about women, from the advent of the women's liberation movement to the present: an exploratory analysis.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT Hundreds of English-language biographical reference books devoted to women subjects were published between 1966 and 2006. These works compensated for underrepresentation of women in standard sources and responded to the intense...

Gender and the politics of information: reflections on bringing the library into the classroom.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT New technologies offering different ways to generate and access information, as well as revolutionary changes in how (and why) we communicate, led to an effort to reconceptualize the nature of library instruction. Combining some...

How we construct subjects: a feminist analysis.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT To organize information, librarians create structures. These structures grow from a logic that goes back at least as far as Aristotle. It is the basis of classification as we practice it, and thesauri and subject headings have...

Library and information science professionals as community action researchers in an academic setting: top ten directions to further institutional change for people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities.
September 22, 2007... ABSTRACT The need for progressive change in people's attitudes and behaviors is essential for a communitywide acceptance of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders, and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals. This article examines our role as...