Allen, Bryce. 2003. "Public Opinion and the Funding of Public Libraries." Library Trends 51, no. 3: 414. MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 20, 2011).
This study focuses on the theory of public choice as a driving factor for library funding. The author finds that positive public opinion about library services appears to have no impact on public library funding. While the library has a positive reputation for service, there are other services that may be deemed to have higher priority in funding.
Weiss, L. (1996). Buildings, books, and bytes: Libraries and communities in the digital age: A report on the public's opinion of library leaders' visions for the future. Washington, DC: Benton Foundation.
Although this article is written in 1996, it still provides some interesting insight into the future of the Library, as envisioned by library leaders and the general public. Weiss finds that the public envisions the library of the future more as a museum than a place to seek current information.
Lagoze, Carl Jay. 2010. "Lost Identity: The Assimilation of Digital Libraries into the Web." ProQuest LLC, 2010. ERIC, EBSCOhost (accessed July 20, 2011).
The adoption of the Web 2.0 model for the exchange of information, and the increased evidence of the efficacy of this model for activities such as learning and scholarship, make this author question the viability of the library information model and the digital libraries that were meant to instantiate that model online.
Niemi, William L., and David J. Plante. 2008. "Democratic Movements, Self-Education, and Economic Democracy: Chartists, Populists, and Wobblies." In Radical History Review, 185-200. Duke University Press, 2008. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 21, 2011).
Democratic movements drive change towards more egalitarian treatment of all people, creating support for libraries.
Roe, George. 2010. "Challenging the Control of Knowledge in Colonial India: Political Ideas in the Work of S. R. Ranganathan." Library & Information History 26, no. 1: 18-32. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 22, 2011).
Ranganathan's pioneering work of the 1930s challenged the ideological structures of colonial rule, advocating libraries and librarians as agents of a national political awakening, especially amongst the rural poor. However, the potential to spread mass self-education across India was lost through Ranganathan's simultaneous reliance on the state to deliver social reforms following Indian independence.
Bracha, Oren. 2007. "Standing Copyright Law on Its Head? The Googlization of Everything and the Many Faces of Property." Texas Law Review 85, no. 7: 1799-1869. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 21, 2011).
Google announced the Google Print Library Project which makes texts of book digitally searchable online. The project is in partnership with five major libraries including Harvard and Oxford libraries. According to the author, two separate copyright infringement lawsuits against Google were filed by the Authors Guild and a group of copyright owners. An opt-out option was given to authors wherein their works will not be included in the database if they do not give their permission.
Hall, Rachel. 2010. "Public Praxis: A Vision for Critical Information Literacy in Public Libraries." Public Library Quarterly 29, no. 2: 162. MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed July 21, 2011).
Public libraries in the United States have a radical opportunity to incorporate information literacy into their service missions. This article explores the reasons why public libraries are not addressing information literacy and engages the educational theories of John Dewey, Paolo Freire, and New Literacy studies to argue that critical information literacy in public libraries is essential to the vitality of democratic societies. In order to deliver these services to their communities, public libraries must provide not only the technologies and instruction for information literacy, but also the impetus for action—what Freire called “praxis.”
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