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Automating literacy : a challenge for libraries / Linda Main and Char Whitaker.

Title
Automating literacy : a challenge for libraries / Linda Main and Char Whitaker.
Author
Main, Linda.
Publication
New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.

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Whitaker, Char.
Description
vi, 133 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Series Statement
New directions in information management, 0887-3844 ; no. 24
Uniform Title
New directions in information management ; no. 24.
Subject
  • Libraries > Automation
  • Libraries and illiterate persons > Automation
  • Libraries and new literates > Data processing
  • Literacy programs > Automation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Literacy-What's Happening? -- Enter the Computer into Library Literacy Programs -- Implications of the Computerization of Library-based Literacy Programs -- Literacy Software: Implementation for Creative Learning, Part I -- Literacy Software: Implementation for Creative Learning, Part II -- The "Ideal" Computerized Literacy Lab in the Library -- The Process of the Future: Literacy in the Library in the Year 2000 -- Appendix 1. Libraries Using Computers in Adult Literacy Programs -- Appendix 2. Foundations Which Support the Use of Computers in Library-Based Adult Literacy Programs -- Appendix 3. Adult Literacy and Technology Project Consultants -- Appendix 4. Main Suppliers of Literacy Software Suitable for Adults.
ISBN
0313275289 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^90047285^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library