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“Lose Your Time in a Useful Way”: Digital Inclusion of the Elderly at a Pensioners’ Club in Romania

“Lose Your Time in a Useful Way”: Digital Inclusion of the Elderly at a Pensioners’ Club in Romania
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Author(s): James M. Nyce (Ball State University, USA), Gail E. Bader (Ball State University, USA)and Cheryl Klimaszewski (Bryn Mawr College, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 17
Source title: Information Access and Library User Needs in Developing Countries
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mohammed Nasser AI-Suqri (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman), Linda L. Lillard (Clarion University, USA)and Naifa Eid AI-Saleem (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4353-6.ch012

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Abstract

This chapter looks at the experiences older adults have using computers and the Internet in the context of one e-inclusion effort in Romania. Biblionet – Global Libraries Romania is a project that provides computers to public libraries throughout that country. One of Biblionet’s first public access computer centers located outside of a public library opened at a pensioners’ club in the city of Zalau. Local librarians who have taken Biblionet-sponsored “train the trainer” courses have adapted instructional methods for older users. Ethnographic research at the pensioners’ club has uncovered a variety of experiences around new technology, especially in how computer use is both informed by and extended kin or family work. The project is discussed in the context of NGO-led development initiatives to illustrate the importance of including the wider ICT development landscape (and methods) when studying users, ICTs, and information use.

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