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Brown, Tara M. – Journal of Access Services, 2006
This paper is drawn from an empirical, ethnographic study of information and communications technologies (ICT) use among thirteen, low-income twelfth-graders attending a large urban high school and focuses on participants' ICT access in the school library. It examines how library staff members' cultural and gendered perceptions shaped ICT…
Descriptors: Ethnography, School Libraries, Library Policy, Use Studies

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