...Cecilia Andersson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of smartphones among young people in everyday life, focusing on the activity of online search. This paper addresses the following research questions: What framings of the smartphone can be identified in the way...

... towards school libraries simply declined the opportunity to participate in the work. Practical implications – Although the attitudes of the young people who contributed data were to an overwhelming degree constructive, key gaps were evident in their awareness of the potential of a school library...

... of a virtual library, heavily controlled, classified and indexed, in order to satisfy the young adults’ needs and desires, outside the physical space of the library, © MCB UP Limited 2002 Public libraries Young people Market segmentation Classification Internet Spain Four years ago...

... the service and its performance by strategic management. Blanshard is obviously a person who has attended lots of management courses and has read all the latest techniques – and is trying to apply them to the world of librarianship for young people. The work is often a quagmire of management jargon...

... library services for children and young people include no specific advice on the teenage years[ 3 ]. However, they suggest that the needs of the target group should be considered in selecting stock for it. Further, they state that stock should be chosen after balancing adult judgements of needs...

... into effect, begin to put right these glaring gaps in provision. For example,recommendation 1 urges each local education authority to “publish an integrated strategy for delivering library services to children and young people throughout its area, taking into account the roles,relationships...