Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0208435

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0208435

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Multiliteracies, libraries and cybraries: Comparative case studies of Australia and the United States. Libraries are key sites for literacy learning. Commonwealth and state government policies stress the significance of libraries and ?information literacy?, and have called for the integration of new technologies into libraries. Despite an ongoing multi-million dollar investment in books and online connectivity, there are no large-scale studies of school libraries? transition into cyber libraries, or ?cybraries.? This project examines the impact of online information technologies on school libraries in two comparative sites in Australia and the US. It describes new forms of text, knowledge and literacy enabled by networked cybraries, and documents how educational systems enable and impede such developments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2002

End Date: 06-2005

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $75,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Educational Technology And Media | Specialist Studies in Education | Education Studies Not Elsewhere Classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Library and related information services | Secondary education |

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