Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Kim M. Thompson, PhD, is lecturer in the School of Information Studies of the Charles Sturt University and an affiliate faculty member of Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC) in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. Her research and teaching focus on information poverty and the physical, intellectual, and socio-cultural supports for and barriers to information access. Her articles are found in the Journal of Documentation, Public Library Quarterly, Library Quarterly, and Library and Information Science Research, among others.

Paul T. Jaeger is associate professor and diversity officer of the College of Information Studies and Co-Director of the Information Policy and Access Center at the University of Maryland. Dr. Jaeger's research focuses on the ways in which law and public policy shape information behavior, particularly for underserved populations. He is the author of more than one hundred and fifty journal articles and book chapters. This is his ninth book. His other recent books are Information Worlds: Social Context, Technology, & Information Behavior in the Age of the Internet (Routledge, 2010) with Gary Burnett; and Public Libraries and the Internet: Roles, Perspectives, and Implications (Libraries Unlimited, 2011) with John Carlo Bertot and Charles R. McClure; Disability and the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide (Lynne Rienner, 2012); Public Libraries, Public Policies, and Political Processes: Serving and Transforming Communities in Times of Economic and Political Constraint (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014) with

atalie Greene Taylor is a doctoral candidate at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, where she also received her Masters of Library Science, specializing in e-government and school library media. She is a Graduate Research Associate at the Information Policy & Access Center (iPAC) where her research has focused on partnerships between libraries and government agencies and the role of school libraries in improving adolescent health and information literacy. Her research interests also include the role of policy in limiting or promoting youth information access, and her dissertation explores adolescents' experiences with digital government health information. Shehas published articles in Library & Information Science Research, Public Library Quarterly, Information Polity, and International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age, among others, and co-authored the book Digital Literacy and Digital Inclusion: Information Policy and the Public Library. She is also an Associate Editor of Library Quarterly.

Mega Subramaniam,PhD, is assistant professor and associate director of the Information Policy and Access Center (iPAC) in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. She is the co-editor of School Library Research, and she has published articles in Library Quarterly, School Library Research, Library Trends, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, and many more.

John Carlo Bertot, PhD, is professor and co-director of the Information Policy and Access Center in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. He is president of the Digital Government Society of North America and serves as chair of the International Standards Organization's Library Performance Indicator (ISO 11620). Bertot is editor of Government Information Quarterly and Co-Editor of Library Quarterly.