Public libraries in the information society: the role of information policies

Abstract

This paper examines the roles of public libraries in broader public policy, and addresses their social impact towards the “information society”. Despite the difficulties of conceiving a national policy towards public libraries, the overall approach that a government makes toward them is an important measure of its commitment to information policy as a whole. The place public libraries have in a government's priorities is a good measure of that government's commitment to an informed and educated citizenry. The theme of the paper was mainly inspired by independent work done by the author at the University of Library and Information Science in Tsukuba City, Japan as a research student in 1998.

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