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"It's not just all about the technology": Understanding the role of statewide legal information websites in expanding access to justice in the United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"It's not just all about the technology": Understanding the role of statewide legal information websites in expanding access to justice in the United States./
Author:	Gorham-Oscilowski, Ursula.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	335 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-11A(E).
Subject:	Library science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3711587
ISBN:	9781321878899

"It's not just all about the technology": Understanding the role of statewide legal information websites in expanding access to justice in the United States.
Gorham-Oscilowski, Ursula.

"It's not just all about the technology": Understanding the role of statewide legal information websites in expanding access to justice in the United States. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 335 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2015.

In the past fifteen years, there has been a dramatic increase in the availability of online legal resources and information specifically targeted toward low-income individuals. A network of statewide legal information websites now plays a central role in the access to justice movement in the United States. While these websites now exist in some form throughout this country, it has been more than a decade since they were last studied in depth. This study uses the perceptions and experiences of individuals involved in developing, implementing and maintaining statewide legal information websites (the "Information Providers") as the primary lens through which to explore how these websites facilitate self-help users' access to vital legal information. Three general research questions guided this study: RQ1: What are the principal activities that Information Providers engage in with respect to statewide legal information websites? RQ2: What are the different ways in which states have approached these activities? RQ3: What program development and operational issues have Information Providers faced?

ISBN: 9781321878899Subjects--Topical Terms:

539284
Library science.

"It's not just all about the technology": Understanding the role of statewide legal information websites in expanding access to justice in the United States.
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