ABSTRACT

While research on media literacy education has focused on varying professional sectors, the role of public libraries in supporting media literacy has yet to be fully explored. This article reports on a university-public library collaboration between University College Dublin, the Libraries Development unit of the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA), the National Adult Literacy Agency (NALA), Meath County Council Libraries and Meta (formerly Facebook). This collaborative partnership sought to develop and pilot a cutting-edge curriculum, incorporating a creative and flexible approach to media literacy training for public library staff. This article details the partnership between the university and the stakeholders toward the common goals of assessing the media literacy training needs of public library staff, and piloting an online professional development course to address these needs. The paper makes several observations on the university-public library collaboration, and proposes that such strategic partnerships might be a key intervention in delivering media literacy education training to the public library sector more broadly.

摘要

虽然媒体素养教育的研究集中在不同的专业领域，但公共图书馆在支持媒体素养方面的作用尚未得到充分探索。本文报道了都柏林大学学院、地方政府管理机构 (LGMA) 的图书馆发展部门、国家成人扫盲机构 (NALA)、米斯县议会图书馆和 Meta（前身为 Facebook）之间的大学-公共图书馆合作。这种合作伙伴关系旨在开发和试点尖端课程，将创造性和灵活的方法纳入公共图书馆工作人员的媒体素养培训。本文详细介绍了大学与利益相关者之间的合作伙伴关系，以实现评估公共图书馆工作人员媒体素养培训需求的共同目标，试行在线专业发展课程以满足这些需求。该论文对大学与公共图书馆的合作进行了一些观察，并提出这种战略伙伴关系可能是更广泛地向公共图书馆部门提供媒体素养教育培训的关键干预措施。