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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Rural libraries"”.
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Do Culturally Engaging Reading Materials Matter? An Analysis of Rural Libraries in Burkina Faso
… culturally relevant reading materials in African libraries. Book collections are primarily composed of donated materials from western countries intended for a western, rather than African audience. This research project aimed to gain insight onto children’s reading preferences in the rural Burkina …
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Rural library services in Zambia: their development and prospects
Libraries have a potential to contribute to rural· development in developing countries. Their role as providers and facilitators for the use of information is an important element in rural development. This potential has not been fully utilised. Using the above assumptions as a starting point, this …
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Brightening the Countryside - The Library Service in Rural Ireland, 1902 - 1935.
The thesis traces the development of the rural library service in Ireland between 1902 and 1935, with particular reference to the part played by Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, which he established in 1913, in that development. The first chapters explore the nineteenth …
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An exploration into the role of public libraries in the alleviation of information inequality and poverty in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… to explore and elucidate strategies for public libraries to support the alleviation of this type of inequality and poverty within their communities. In Chapters 1 and 2, in-depth discussions of information inequality and poverty are presented. An historical perspective of libraries in South …
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Epistemic entanglements in an age of universals: literacy, libraries and children's stories in rural Malawi
… and impact of the universal of literacy in rural Malawi, through the lens of globally circulating Anglophone children’s story books and the emergence of village libraries. While Africa in the twenty-first century is being seen as an emerging global player, many African countries are, …