Communicating with the Poor

Block, Carl E.

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Title

Communicating with the Poor

Author(s)

Block, Carl E.

Issue Date

1971

Keyword(s)

• Libraries and community
• Social service --Information services
• Reference services (Libraries)
• Community information services

Abstract

This paper has two primary objectives. The first is to summarize the results of a study of the general informational search behavior of a sample of 350 low-income households in St. Louis in August 1968. 1 In this study data were gathered on the types of information ordinarily sought, the sources of information used, and the relative importance that the poor themselves place on the various sources prior to making product selections in the marketplace. The second major objective of this paper is to try to place these findings in the broader context of communicating with the poor generally. As part of the second objective attention will be given to considering the neighborhood information center as a possible contributor to this communication process. Initially, however, it should be helpful to put the whole subject of communicating with the poor in a proper setting by spending some time on a brief review of the communication process itself, i.e., to lay a theoretical basis for further examination of the theme of the article.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (17th : 1971)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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