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Community Building by Connecting Local Skills and Knowledge


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1 Department of Library and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Jnana Sahyadri, Shimoga, Karnataka, India
2 Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand
     

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In this emerging knowledge society libraries should extend their services and outreach programs to the rural dwellers in real sense. For the same, department of Public libraries need to plan about capturing of local skill and knowledge for extensive utilization by rural dwellers. Therefore this paper concentrates mainly on community building What? Why? and How. Much emphasis is given on role of community information centres in community building.

Keywords

Knowledge Society, Community Information Service.
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About The Authors

B. S. Biradar
Department of Library and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Jnana Sahyadri, Shimoga, Karnataka
India

Sujjin Butdisuwan
Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham
Thailand


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Authors

B. S. Biradar
Department of Library and Information Science, Kuvempu University, Jnana Sahyadri, Shimoga, Karnataka, India
Sujjin Butdisuwan
Mahasarakham University, Mahasarakham, Thailand

Abstract


In this emerging knowledge society libraries should extend their services and outreach programs to the rural dwellers in real sense. For the same, department of Public libraries need to plan about capturing of local skill and knowledge for extensive utilization by rural dwellers. Therefore this paper concentrates mainly on community building What? Why? and How. Much emphasis is given on role of community information centres in community building.

Keywords


Knowledge Society, Community Information Service.

References