Civic partnerships: The role of libraries in promoting civic engagement

Resource Sharing and Information Networks

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 89-103

  Kranich, Nancy ^a,b  

^a American Library Association   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic engagement; Civic librarianship; Civic literacy; Civic partnerships; Public forums

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645237781     PISSN: 07377797     EISSN: 15411125     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J121v18n01_08     Document Type: Review

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2. Putnam, 2000, pp. 15-47.
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4. as quoted in: Jean Bethke Elshtain, "Families and Civic Goods: Connecting Private Lives and Civic Goods," http://www2.duq.edu/ familyinstitute/templates/features/conference/elshlain.html.
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8. Among the many works authored by Mathews, see: "The Public in Practice and Theory," Public Administration Review, 44, special issue (March 1984): 120-125; "
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10. Politics for People, 2nd ed., Champagne, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999; and Making Choices Together: The Power of Public Deliberation, with Noelle McAfee, Dayton, OH: Charles F. Kettering Foundation, 2001.
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19. Several recent titles focusing on electronic democracy include: Lawrence Grossman, The Electronic Republic: The Transformation of American Democracy, New York: Viking, 1995;
20. Roza Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambini, and Cathy Bryan, eds., Cyberdemocracy: Technology, Cities and Civic Networks, New York, Routledge, 1998;
21. Anthony G. Wilhelm, Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace, New York: Routledge, 2000;
22. Peter Levine. "Can the Internet Rescue Democracy? Toward an On-line Commons," in Democracy's Moment: Reforming the American Political System for the 21st Century, edited by Ronald Hayduk and Kevin Mattson, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishiers, 2002, pps. 121-137; Douglas Schuler and Peter Day, eds., Shaping the Network Society, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004;
23. and Bruce Bimber, Information and American Democracy Technology in the Evolution of Political Power, NY: Cambridge U. Press, 2003.
24. See, "The New Information Commons: Community Information Partnerships and Civic Change," by Lew Friedland and Harry Boyte, University of Minnesota Hubert Humphrey Institute, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, January 2000, http://www.publicwork.org/pdf/workingpapers/ New%20information%20commons.pdf;
25. Peter Levine, "Building the Electronic Commons," The Good Society, vol. 11, #3, 2002: 4-9, http://www.peterlevine.ws/goodsociety.pdf
26. Peter Levine "Civic Renewal and the Commons of Cyberspace," National Civic Review, vol. 90, #3, (Fall 2001): 205-12, http://www.ncl.org/ publications/ncr/90-3/chapter1.pdf;
27. and Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland, Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal, Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2001. Projects testing these ideas include: St. Paul Community Information Corps, http://www.stpaulcommons.org,
28. which uses technology tools to involve young people in work on different types of community projects like mapping, creating a learning directory, and computer training; and The Prince Georges County Information Commons, http://www.princegeorges.org, a democratic, participatory, nonprofit association that produces Web sites, e-mail discussions, databases, digital maps, streaming or broadcast videos, tutoring services, Internet access, free software, and local policy initiatives as a service to the community.
29. Ronald McCabe, "Civic Librarianship," in Libraries and Democracy, edited by Nancy Kranich, Chicago, IL, American Library Association, 2001, pp. 60-69.
30. Redmond Kathleen Molz and Phyllis Dain, Civic Space/Cyberspace: The American Public Library in the Digital Age, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999;
31. Kathleen de la Pena McCook, A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building, Chicago: American Library Association, 2000;
32. Ronald B. McCabe, Civic Librarianship: Renewing the Social Mission of the Public Library, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001;
33. and Nancy Kranich, Libraries and Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty, Chicago: American Library Association, 2001.
34. Cynthia Gibson and Peter Levine, The Civic Mission of Schools, New York: Carnegie Corporation and CIRCLE, February 2003, http://www.pewtrusts.org/pdf/ public_policy_circle_mission_schools.pdf.
35. Paul Gagnon, Educating Democracy: State Standards to Ensure a Civic Core, Washington, DC: Albert Shanker Institute, September 2003, http://www. shankerinstitute.org/Downloads/gagnon/contents.html.
36. Collaborative Communications Group, New Relationships with Public Schools: Organizations That Build Community by Connecting with Public Schools, Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation, May 2003, http://www.publicengagement.com/ practices/publications/newrelationshipssummary.htm.
37. Kathryn Montgomery, Barbara Gottlieb-Robles and Gary Larson, Youth as E-Citizens: Engaging the Digital Generation, Washington, DC: American University, Center for Social Media, March 2004, http://www. centerforsocialmedia.org/ecitizens/youthreport.pdf.
38. Harry C. Boyte, "The Struggle Against Positivism." Academe 86, no. 4 (July/ August 2000): 46.
39. For more information about Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement, see: http://www.aacu.org/civic_engagement/objectives.cfm.
40. An up-to-date list of signatories to the Declaration is available at: http://www.compact.org/presidential/plc/signatories.html.
41. More information about the Kettering Foundation is available at: http://www.kettering.org.
42. For a complete listing of available discussion guides as well as recent network news, events and other information, see the NIF web site at http://www.nifi.org/.
43. For a useful manual about deliberation, see: Missouri Deliberates, Discovering Common Ground-Deliberation and Your Community: How to Convene and Moderate Local Public Forums Using Deliberative Decision-Making (training manual), Columbia, MO: Community Development, University of Missouri Outreach and Extension, 2003. http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/commdev/pubdelih/trainmat.htm.
44. Study Circles Resource Center, http://www.studycircles.org/;
45. The Choices Program, Brown University Watson Center for International Studies, http://www.choices.edu/index.cfm:
46. Community Conversations. Inc., http://www.nifi.org/news/news_detail.aspx? itemID=1403&catID=24:
47. Texas Forums, http://www.texasforums.org/
48. and the Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center Civic Engagement Initiative. http://www.pcrcweb.org/civicengagement/civic.asp.
49. Virginia Beach, Citizen Communication and Interrelationships Workgroup, Connections for a Lifetime: Building Community Trust and Relationships, Final Report, Virginia Beach. VA: March 2001. http://www.vbgov.com/city_hall/docs/ communitytrust.pdf.
50. Joan Durrance et al., "Libraries and Civil Society," in Libraries and Democracy, edited by Nancy Kranich, Chicago, IL, American Library Association, 2001, pp. 49-59.
51. Putnam and Feldstein, 2003, p. 53.
52. Pennsylvania State University Public Broadcasting, Digital Alliances-Partnerships in Public Service: Models for Collaboration, Washington, DC: Benton Foundation, 2002, http://www.benton.org/publibrary/partners/pips.pdf, p. 12.
53. American Library Association, Public Programs Office, One Book, One Community, (CD-Rom), Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2003.
54. Pennsylvania State University, 2002.
55. Institute for Museum and Library Services, The 21st Century Learner, Washington, DC: IMLS, 2001, http://www.imls.gov/pubs/pdf/pub21cl.pdf.
56. See also IMLS, The 21st Century Learner Resource Listing, (web site), http://www.imls.gov/whatsnew/21cl/21clrsc.htm.
57. Urban Libraries Council. Urban Libraries/Urban Assets Strategy Group, http://www.urbanlibraries.org/standards/cassets.himl.
58. American Library Association, Presidential Committee on Information Literacy: Final Report. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1989, http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Publications/ White_Papers_and_Reports/Presidential_Committee_on_Information_Literacy.htm.
59. American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the Association for Educational Communication and Technology, Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1998;
60. American Library Association, A Library Advocate's Guide to Building Information Literate Communities, Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2000, http://www.ala.org/Content/ContentGroups/Advocacy/informationliteracy.pdf;
61. Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Instruction Task Force, Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, 2000, http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ACRL/Standards_and_Guidelines/ Information_Literacy_Competency_Standards_for_Higher_Education.htm.
62. For more background about the civic literacy movement, see Michael H. Parsons and C. David Lisman, (eds), Promoting Community Renewal through Civic Literacy and Service Learning, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996;
63. Henry Milner, Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2002;
64. and Elizabeth Marcoux, "Information Literacy for the Twenty-First Century Citizen, in Libraries and Democracy, edited by Nancy Kranich, Chicago, IL, American Library Association, 2001, pp.70-80.
65. Council for Excellence in Government, "Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Knight Foundation Fund New Campaign to Put Civic Education Back in the Schools," Press Release, May 2004, http://excelgov.org/displayContent. asp?NewsItemID=5198.
66. First Amendment Center and Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, First Amendment Schools: Educating for Freedom and Responsibility, http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/.
67. The September Project, "What's Your Library Doing on September 11?" http://www.theseptemberproject.org/index.htm.
68. Putnam, 2000, p. 341.