Democracy, Literacy and Poverty: “Can Text Messages Bring the Academic Library to African Civic Leaders?”
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2011
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In the spring of 2009, our Canadian team of 2 Librarians and a professor, s, a professor anpent a month in Africa collaborating with Tanzanian academics to understand the information environment of villagers at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro where 3 years of drought was hitting families hard. We were working with our Tanzanian counterparts on the initial stages of developing a way to ensure that remote communities can have access to information related to government services and entitlements. Although this may seem a stretch for an academic librarian, maintaining access to information is at the core of librarianship.
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Phillips, C., 2011. Democracy, literacy and poverty–can text messages bring the academic library to African civic leaders?. Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 5(2).