Objective
DERAL sets out to encourage public libraries to play an increasingly important part in transferring information, knowledge and education to users who have difficulty in following normal courses of study. This frequently applies to those living in rural areas as well as to the unemployed and to elderly or disabled people who cannot normally attend university, college or high school.
Guidelines will be drawn up for librarians and a set of tools based on Internet technology and video-conferencing will be developed allowing libraries to act as brokers between the providers of distance learning courses and users. The ultimate aim is to raise the level of education in rural areas and, by doing so, to help people to remain and work in their places of residence.
Technical approach
DERAL will provide a gateway to distance learning resources on the Web. Guidelines will be prepared for librarians and library users. Content to be delivered will include: multimedia learning resources geared to national curricula; self-training packages for core skills; networked encyclopaedic databases; specialist resources on topics for leisure and learning; e-mail; networked electronic journals; digitised collections of images, film, video and sound recordings; and public library catalogues in the five partnership countries and also in other countries (e.g. Library of Congress). Digital library resources will also be included.
Service will include: support in accessing and searching global resources; guidance on the reliability of databases; access to and participation in special-interest Internet communities; access to specialist libraries and collections, and to virtual visits to exhibitions; information and guidance on educational and learning opportunities; interactive communications with educational institutions; access to local education authorities and information on finance for learning, grants, awards, etc; online application facilities; access to the library network and networked resources; and the relationship between all of these and access to the general facilities of a public library.
The work will require use of the two most powerful tools in distance education: the Internet and ISDN-based video-conferencing. If possible, TV-screen access to these resources will also be tested.
Key issues
In exploiting new technologies through the networked library, priority must be given to:
enhancing education and lifelong-learning opportunities for children and adults;
supporting training, employment and business, to foster economic prosperity;
nurturing social cohesion through fostering a politically and culturally informed society.
The main results from the DERAL project will be guidelines for public librarians throughout Europe on support for library users wishing to participate in distance learning and related information searching.
Impact and expected results
The overall benefit will be that citizens in remote areas will have improved mediated access to distance learning resources via their public libraries. This will not only improve the quality of living in general but will assist in creating new jobs and new participation in the evolving information society.
DERAL will serve as a prototype in four, widely differing regions of Europe and, if successful, will become a model for Europe-wide access to distance learning through public libraries.
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Coordinator
39129 Kalmar
Sweden
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