Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Hart, Genevieve"
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Searching for new library models: Two South African case studies of services to youth
Hart, Genevieve (2012)South Africa is a youthful society with 54% younger than 24 years. South African young people face disproportionately high rates of unemployment, HIV-AIDS infection, and violent crime. Even in post-apartheid South Africa, ... -
Service learning in a course in children's & youth library & information services: a case study
Hart, Genevieve (Community High Education Service Partnership, 2008)The case study describes a service learning project in Library and Information Science. In 2002, 14 students enrolled for the service learning elective – the 4th year second semester module, Children’s and Youth Library ... -
Social capital: a fresh vision for public libraries in South Africa
Hart, Genevieve (Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2007)The article argues that the construct of social capital offers South African public librarianship fresh vision – urgently needed if it is to fulfil its potential role in social inclusion. Social capital refers to the ... -
South Africa’s LIS Transformation Charter: policies, politics and professionals
Hart, Genevieve; Nassimbeni, Mary (IFLA, 2014)The rhetoric of public librarianship includes many ringing claims for the role of libraries in democracy; and, on the 20-year anniversary of the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, it is an opportune moment to ... -
The “tricky business” of dual use school community libraries: A case study in rural South Africa
Hart, Genevieve (Walter de Gruyter, 2011)The article describes an interpretive case study of a group of six dual use school community libraries in one remote region of South Africa. Its focus is rather more on the libraries as school libraries than public libraries. ... -
The use of multipurpose community telecentres and their services in Malawi: the case of Lupaso Community Telecentre
Kapondera, Sellina Khumbo; Hart, Genevieve (LIASA, 2016)Telecentres aim to bridge digital divides between rural and urban communities. In many developing countries, like Malawi, the assumption is that once telecentres are established, people will adopt them. The purpose of the ... -
The value of information in South Africa’s new democracy
Hart, Genevieve; Nassimbeni, Mary (Emerald, 2018)PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to trace and analyse the relationship between information and democracy in the old and in the new South Africa. The authors interrogate the applicability to the situation of the ...