This dissertation study examines the role of the public library in fostering digital literacies in underserved Illinois communities. Over the course of two years I collected data on the library as an institution, and as a ...

In the summer of 2008 Rosalie C.F. Rippey, Director of Communications and Marketing, and Stephanie Brunner Lynge, Associate Director of Church and Community Relations, contacted members of the UIUC Graduate School of Library ...

A community engagement project with two sides: helping to create an orientation packet for students studying abroad in Sao Tome, Africa, and a bibliography of materials related to Malaria research.

The New Horizons Media Initiative is a multi-sponsor initiative to establish a unique educational, research, communication and outreach resource for the UIUC campus, East-Central Illinois, other U of I campuses, and ...

A community engagement project with the WRFU radio station at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.

This study is an investigation and analysis of the process of developing new partnerships among public service agencies and making more durable connections with local Spanish-speaking families that seeks to answer the ...

It is common today for scientists to conduct research in collaboration with their colleagues from different institutions and disciplines. This study collected a sample of 846 scientific research papers published in 1992, ...

This study examines learners and learning in the context of an established, multimodal graduate degree program originally developed as a distance education option. It is a learner-centered inquiry, building on Deweyan ...

The digital divide is a metaphor used by scholars and policy makers to refer to the problem of a lack of access to technology and the consequences associated with a lack of access for "have-not" groups. While typical digital ...