Information for Social Change - No. 26 Winter 07- 08

No. 26, Winter 2007- 2008 (all in PDF Format, formatted for A4 paper).

Information for Social Change is an activist organisation that examines issues of censorship, freedom and ethics amongst library and information workers.

“The ways by which information is controlled and mediated has a serious influence on the ways people think, how they communicate, what they believe is the ‘real world’, what the limits of the permissible are. This applies equally to information that comes through the channels of the mass media, through our bookshops or through our libraries.”

World Book Day - 6th March 2008

                  

Visit the Official site to see whats going on!

Call into the Library to pick up some freebies, postcards, see the new Quick Reads and take out something new!

Whats happening in Wales and around Conwy? Why not send an e-card to let everyone know???

See what the Welsh Books Council have chosen as their top reads in the

Whay does reading mean to you?

A recent BBC article suggested that half of all men in the UK aged 16-24 haven’t read a single book in the past 12 months……and others argue that you don’t have to read books to be intelligent and knowledgeable because we now get our information in other ways….

BUT

Last year people in the UK bought an estimated 338 million books, thats 13% higher by both volume and value than five years ago! And that the bedroom was the preferred location for reading by 45% of general readers….

AND

the greatest growth in value for 2006 in the UK came from the academic/professional (+7.1%) and non-fiction/reference (+4.7%) while in America the greatest growth came from the religious category (+5.6% on 2005) and the adult trade (+3.9%) - what can we make of that?

HOWEVER

A recent survey by the American IMLS/PEW Foundation also found that Internet users were more likely than nonusers to go to the library and the report concludes that Internet use isn’t making libraries less relevant

REMEMBER

Becuase the way we produce and gather information has changed and many more people are logging in to get their daily information fix, it’s more important than ever to develop both general literacy and computer literacy skills  ………                                       

Your library & IT Workshop are here to help you achieve both