O HC mandou o link da biblioteca do Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (“AIfIA”). Há montes de papers bacanas sobre coisas como usabilidade, taxonomia, estratégias de negócio, etc.
Por falar em bibliotecas, vale dar uma olhada tb nesta longa reportagem do New York Times sobre as informatização das bibliotecas públicas americanas.
At the New York Public Library's West Farms branch in the South Bronx, computers are rationed like treadmills at a busy gym, in half-hour intervals. More than 14 million Americans can gain access to the Internet at public libraries, according to the Commerce Department. On this weekday afternoon, the crowd is made up mostly of students. Clivel Charlton, the young-adult librarian at West Farms, says the most popular uses include sending e-mail, research for homework, playing games, and looking up the lyrics of songs by rap stars like Jay-Z, Nas and DMX.
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Studies have shown that minorities, immigrants, lower-income groups and people in rural areas rely more on libraries for access to computers and the Internet than do Americans in general. Of course, that does not mean that the digital divide has closed: a teenager waiting for a half-hour stint on a PC at the South Bronx library does not enjoy the same Internet access as a teenager with a PC with broadband service in the bedroom.
Longa vida aos telecentros, as bibliotecas públicas de baixo custo que, se bem usadas, vão ser fundamentais para o "grande salto" brasileiro.
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