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Among Americans ages 16 years and older, 80 percent say borrowing books is a "very important" service libraries provide, and 80 percent say reference librarians fall into the same "very important" category. [47] Library Journal noted a small but marked decrease in print circulation in 2012, and suggested that changing information behavior, an ...
Human rights is a professional ethic that informs the practice of librarianship. [8] The American Library Association (ALA), the profession's voice in the U.S., defines the core values of librarianship as information access, confidentiality/privacy, democracy, diversity, education and lifelong learning, intellectual freedom, preservation, the public good, professionalism, service and social ...
As federal support for libraries expanded, the idea of promoting adult education became the focus in public libraries. In 1924, "the report to the Carnegie Corporation, The American Public Library and the Diffusion of Knowledge, included the observation that 'the free public library is already an accepted and cherished figure in American ...
State library associations also work with state libraries, whose budgets directly affect local libraries, to maintain their awareness of important amendments and bills; this cooperation is especially essential in states where state libraries are prohibited from influencing legislation.
In 2023 the report, Overdue: The Case for Canada’s Public Libraries, was released by The Canadian Urban Libraries Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada. The report on the work of 652 library systems and 3350 branches makes the case that investment in public libraries will create social cohesion, contribute to economic growth ...
In 1935 the Free Library Movement was established in New South Wales advocating for free public libraries to be supported by municipal authorities. [71] A similar movement was established in Victoria within a couple of years. [72] Pre-Independence libraries in India have been discussed by R.K. Bhatt and K. Kandhasamy. [73]
Research libraries can be either reference libraries, which do not lend their holdings, or lending libraries, which do lend all or some of their holdings.Some extremely large or traditional research libraries are entirely reference in this sense, lending none of their material; most academic research libraries, at least in the U.S., now lend books, but not periodicals or other material.
Library science (previously termed library studies and library economy) [note 1] is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the political economy of information.