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The University of Southern Mississippi.

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Keeping the faith: The public library's commitment to adult education, 1950--2006.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Keeping the faith: The public library's commitment to adult education, 1950--2006./
作者:	Coleman, Brenda Weeks.
面頁冊數:	661 p.
附註:	Adviser: W. Lee Pierce.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
標題:	Education, Adult and Continuing. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3326698
ISBN:	9780549783107

Keeping the faith: The public library's commitment to adult education, 1950--2006.
Coleman, Brenda Weeks.

Keeping the faith: The public library's commitment to adult education, 1950--2006. - 661 p.

Adviser: W. Lee Pierce.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Southern Mississippi, 2008.

This study examines the extent to which the conception and implementation of the public library's educational commitment to adults changed between 1950 and 2006 within the context of the institutional development of the public library and the influences exerted by internal and external forces such as philanthropic organizations, the federal government, the American Library Association, research, the public library planning process, the nontraditional education movement, and changes in public library ideology. Philanthropic organizations such as the Carnegie Corporation and the Ford Foundation's Fund for Adult Education played pivotal roles in the development of the library's liberal adult education programming in the 1920s, 1930s, and the 1950s. The Library Services Act, the Library Services and Construction Act, and other federal legislation enacted during the federal government's War on Poverty fueled the expansion of public library services throughout the country and stimulated interest in compensatory adult education among public librarians. The American Library Association's interest in adult education waxed and waned throughout much of the twentieth century. However, in 1998 the association formally adopted literacy and lifelong learning as key components of its strategic planning program. This formal recognition promises to provide a more sustained level of support for initiatives in these areas. Two major ALA studies in the 1950s and 1980s and a more recent survey conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics have provided an understanding of the development, extent, and nature of public library services for adults, but more research is needed to provide an accurate picture of the current status of educational services for adults. The nontraditional education movement of the 1970s, which initially promised to enhance the public library's adult educational role, failed to have a lasting impact due to professional resistance and a change in institutional emphasis from education to the provision of information. The inclusion of educational services for adults among the roles or service responses outlined in the Public Library Association's planning manuals during the past twenty years indicate that these services are considered an important part of the public library's program.

ISBN: 9780549783107Subjects--Topical Terms:

626632
Education, Adult and Continuing.

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