| Autor: |
Tyler W.S. Nagel |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Facts & Frictions, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 68-75 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2816-2366 |
| DOI: |
10.22215/ff/v3.i2.01 |
| Popis: |
This research note describes a new role for the public library: a knowledge base of community media information in the context of a larger journalism research project. In rural areas of the Canadian province of Alberta, professional journalism has been struck by a series of cutbacks as newspaper titles have closed or merged to form regional publications. In studying this, efforts to generate a census of Alberta newspapers were stymied by incomplete search results when looking online to identify the titles of publications in scores of rural towns. Public libraries provided the solution: they were easily locatable online, and the library workers were aware of their community’s information ecosystem and were eager to help the researcher in a quest for information on local journalism. This article describes the process and outcome, and encourages further partnerships between small town libraries and academic research. |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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