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Beckerman, Edwin P. – School Library Journal, 1976
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act personnel were used to provide tutorial services in the public library. (PF)
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Library Extension, Library Services, Public Libraries
Peer reviewedChatman, Elfreda A. – RQ, 1987
This test of theory of opinion leadership in a low-income environment addressed three questions: (1) whether opinion leaders exist, their characteristics, and their role in information dissemination; (2) what the information world of this population is; and (3) whether this population views the library as a source of useful information. (EM)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Information Dissemination, Information Needs, Information Seeking
Peer reviewedChatman, Elfreda A. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Reports on a study of the awareness, use, and diffusion of job information in a low-income population as a test of diffusion theory. A review of the literature is included and major models are reexamined with information rather than technology as the innovation. Implications for librarians are discussed. (EM)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Diffusion (Communication), Economically Disadvantaged, Information Seeking
