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Moving Beyond “Outreach”: Reflections on Two Case Studies of Community Library Services in South Africa

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Abstract

The paper examines the contribution, real and potential, of public libraries in South Africa to social inclusion by means of so-called outreach programmes.The discussion is grounded in two case studies of two community libraries -one rural, one urban.The argument is that what are often viewed as "outreach" programmes point the way to new models of library and information services (LIS), which will be meaningful to far more than the present tiny minority of South African library users and which thus might fulfil the vision of the LIS Transformation Charter of the National Council of Library and Information Services (NCLIS) (2009).The paper explores the meaning of library outreach in the international literature and then uses the insights gained from the outreach literature to examine the two cases.

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2007The Library-Community Convergence Framework for Community Action: Libraries as Catalysts of Social Change 2007Your place or mine? Face‐to‐face reference services across campus 2010New vision, new goals, new markets? Reflections on a South African case study of community library services 2009Satellite Outreach Services Program to Under-Represented Students: Being in Their Space, Not on MySpace 2000Images of exclusion: user and community perceptions of the public library 2011The “Tricky Business” of Dual-use School Community Libraries: A Case Study in Rural South Africa 2009Why Librarians Matter to Poor People

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