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Public library programs and services offer opportunities to help immigrants navigate daily life in unfamiliar surroundings and a new language. For example, language classes address the social determinants of health as they encourage social participation and community ties and help develop friendships. The purpose of this research was to conduct a narrative literature review to understand how immigrants use public libraries and how public library services influence the social determinants of health for immigrant populations. Keyword searches were conducted on five databases to identify research papers that met the inclusion criteria: empirical studies published in English between 2000 and 2020 related to immigrants' use of public libraries. Thirty-one articles were included in the analysis. Thematic coding identified cross-cutting themes within the sample using the framework of the social-ecological model. Immigrants commonly use public libraries for programs (e.g., language learning), collections (e.g., borrowing books), and services (e.g., asking librarians questions). Immigrant patrons often reported satisfaction with library programs, services, and collections in the language of the host country. A frequent criticism was the relevance and accessibility of collections in their heritage language. In addition, library staff demographics often did not reflect those of immigrant patrons. Health-enhancing benefits associated with library use included increased confidence and self-esteem, cultural integration and preservation, trust and relationships (e.g., making friends), community awareness and engagement, and political integration. Future research and practice areas include collaboration between public health and library professionals to develop library programming that maximizes health and well-being among immigrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A growing body of research examines teens' use of digital technologies to meet their academic and personal information needs, but few studies have considered how public and school libraries fit into modern teens' information practices. This study uses data from surveys of and interviews with 25 teens enrolled in a highly technological urban US high school to consider how the prevalence of technology in their daily lives has influenced their perceptions and use of libraries. The results indicated that this group of students tended to think of libraries as largely outdated institutions with little connection to their technology-focused daily information practices. Thus, libraries might better serve teens with high levels of technology access by reframing their services in terms of promoting social interaction and community building as well as focusing less on providing materials and technology access and more on teaching how to search and evaluate information housed outside of libraries' physical and virtual boundaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses work of librarians as media advocates to find the media that satisfies their information needs, regardless of format. Topics discussed include importance of maintaining open dialogues in the media mentorship process; information on stratified random sampling, which works to identify a representative set of public library websites; and role of the librarian as mentor for parents and children.

Personal information management (PIM) is an interdisciplinary research area with established theoretical foundations from information science and applied empirical research from human‐computer interaction (HCI). The increasingly popular activity tracking technology (ATT) has given rise to a new type of personal information about one's daily physical activities, which has not been scrutinized under theoretical frameworks in PIM. This article presents an in‐depth qualitative interview study supplemented by participant‐driven photo elicitation with 20 long‐term activity tracker users about how they manage personal information generated by ATT. Key findings include the identification of two distinctive user groups (i.e., consistent casual users and powers users) among long‐term activity tracker users and an in‐depth portrayal of these groups' PIM behaviors with ATT. These behaviors include concurrent and subsequent PIM practices, 6 types of PIM activities, and the use of a spectrum of PIM tools. This research provides timely theoretical updates to PIM under the background of self‐tracking technologies, outlines empirical implications to improve ATT in support of PIM, and offers recommendations for incorporating participant‐driven photo elicitation as a supplementary method for qualitative interviews in information behavior research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Building on theoretical foundation of personal information management (PIM) in information science, this paper seeks to understand how activity tracker users manage their personal health information generated by their devices and to elucidate future activity tracking technology in support of personal health information management (PHIM). This paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a web survey study with a specific group of activity tracker users – amateur runners. This survey collected both quantitative and qualitative data on participants' engagement with activity tracking technology, their PHIM practices with the information generated by the technology and how their needs were being met by their activity tracking technology use and PHIM practices. Findings: Amateur runners surveyed in this study exhibit long-term engagement and frequent interaction with activity tracking technology. They also engage in PHIM practices by using a range of PHIM tools and performing various PHIM activities. Furthermore, they use activity tracking technology and engage in PHIM practices to meet various health/fitness-related needs and information needs, while some of these needs such as performance needs and overarching needs are only partially met or unmet. Originality/value: This research discusses amateur runners as power users of activity tracking technology, provides timely updates to PIM and PHIM research in light of a new type of personal health information, and generates design considerations for future activity tracking technology in support of PHIM. It also brings together previously disparate research regarding everyday life PHIM in information science, human–computer interaction and health informatics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information regarding the growing number of fake news occurring around the world. Topics include the approach of the Libraries Transform initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) to fight fake news through promoting information literacy skills, the threat provided by fake news among adults and youth who commonly used the Internet for news, and the need for libraries to promote actions against fake news.

Introduction. This exploratory study investigates the phenomenon of mobile information overload. We present a multi-faceted picture of smartphone users’ information tasks in relation to their experience of mobile information overload. Method. We used qualitative interviewing methods, incorporating a modified critical incident technique and elements of contextual inquiry, to collect data from nine smartphone users. Analysis. Interviews were audio recorded and transcribed, and notes from the contextual inquiry were added to the transcription. We used thematic analysis to identify significant themes in the data. Results. This study presents findings on the types, contexts and preferences of mobile information tasks reported by participants; their experiences of mobile information overload, including symptoms and causes; and their mobile information overload coping strategies. The findings indicate that: (1) mobile information tasks are closely related to the experience of mobile information overload; (2) mobile information overload is a prevalent phenomenon among smartphone users; (3) mitigating interventions for mobile information overload should aim at designing for personal boundaries and removing technological constraints. Conclusion. This study is an initial examination of smartphone users’ mobile information tasks and experiences of mobile information overload. We present implications for future mobile technologies to mitigate the negatives of mobile information overload. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Popular media often characterize youths’ use of social media as overwhelmingly negative, reporting that teens engage in reckless, unsafe behaviors with little thought to their online privacy or safety. Typically, these popular media accounts are based on adults’ prescriptive views of youths’ attitudes and behaviors. Using qualitative methods including background questionnaires and focus groups, we gathered older teens’ attitudes about online privacy and safety to provide a more complete narrative from a teen perspective. Findings suggest that older teens are concerned with their online privacy and feel discomfort with unintended audiences seeing their personal information, yet most feel tension to share personal information with friends. They are less concerned about safety, tending to feel safe online and to employ protective measures, but viewing older and younger generations as less knowledgeable about online safety. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for teaching teens about online privacy and safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from a talk she gave to an international conference in Seoul, South Korea, in July 2016, the author explores major changes in services for teens both now and those expected in the future. The two most important shifts are the increasing focus on what the librarydoesover what the libraryhasand the growing emphasis on information and information services in digital forms and formats. There are other future trends, but these are paramount. Libraries that keep up or move quickly to advance their work to fit such trends will do well; those that don’t, won’t. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the literacy benefits of storytelling which is a long-standing tradition in the U.S. public and school libraries. It mentions that the literary benefits of storytelling has been based on observations from practice rather than on research findings. It outlines the six categories emerged from the listeners' descriptions of the storylistening trance phenomenon which include realism, lack of awareness and control.

This article presents a brief overview of research relating to teens, libraries, and social media. It also summarizes a recent multimethod study of how public and school libraries fit into U.S. teens’ increasingly online information lives. The study results debunk five popular myths about teens and social media and reveal many positive ways that teens are using social media to connect with peers and adults and to seek and share information. The article concludes with a discussion of the role that libraries can play in designing services and programs to encourage teens to engage in positive social media use. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This study sought to collect data from teens and librarians about their preferences and recommendations for the effective design of physical library spaces for teens. Librarians and teens at twenty-two U.S. public libraries filmed narrated video tours of their young adult (YA) public library spaces. The researchers used qualitative content analysis techniques to analyze the video data and to develop a framework for guiding the design of effective YA public library spaces. In addition to providing specific recommendations for user-centered YA library space design, this study highlights the need for continued user input into the design and maintenance of YA public library spaces as teens’ needs evolve and vary across time and from community to community. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Library programming is one of the most important elements through which public libraries offer support for parents and families. Well-designed programming focused on implementing research findings can provide structured opportunities for socialization, education, and emotional support within families and among communities. Although family storytimes and book programs are fairly common in U.S. public libraries, fewer libraries offer programming to assist families in navigating the changing landscapes of digital media. In this article, we connect a research-based framework to the development of library programming based on projected social and learning outcomes. We recommend several types of programming models based on the framework for the development of a more intentional design of libraries and programming to support families and children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the results of the Young Adult Library Services Association's (YALSA) 2013 Teen Tech Week (TTW) survey. It notes that the results of the 2013 TTW survey was compared to that of the 2008 TTW survey. It elaborates on the reasons cited for TTW participation, the major categories of TTW programs offered, and the TTW budget comparison for 2008 and 2013. It also cites TTW Evaluation Task Force's expectation of more hands-on technology program offerings in succeeding events.

Blended education, which mixes elements of face-to-face and online educational delivery, can occur at the activity, course, program, or administrative level. This study examined the use of student blogs to test the benefits of course-level blended educational delivery for LIS students enrolled in a face-to-face course. Data collected from students' blogs were also used to assess whether Zach and Agosto's (2009) framework for maximizing student collaboration and knowledge sharing in online courses can be applied to face-to-face courses. The study found that blogs successfully supported collaboration and community building because they were well-suited to sharing course-related knowledge and because students encountered few technical barriers. These findings support Zach and Agosto's proposed criteria for selecting technologies to foster increased collaboration and knowledge sharing, e.g., low learning curves and easily facilitated student interaction. The results suggest that blended education can bring many of the educational benefits of online learning to face-to-face students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the 2012 Public Library Association Public Library Data Service (PLA PLDS), which aimed to understand library collections, expenditures and services during the year. The PLA PLDS painted a mixed picture of the current state of the Young Adult services and that while many libraries are offering services to Young Adults, only a few have dedicated staff members. On comparison with the 2007 survey, the 2012 PLA PLDS also showed an overwhelming access to library programs for teens but only two-thirds of the respondents in both years had dedicated a portion of their library web pages for Young Adult services.

The article observes that the concept of literacy is changing for today's children. It explains how children's use of digital information resources such as online social networks, virtual worlds, and e-books, actually contributes to their development of both traditional literacy skills and new literacy skills. The article also suggests that librarians must continue to provide literacy support, especially to children from disadvantaged family backgrounds, which should include the provision of literacy materials.

Graphic elicitation techniques, which ask research participants to provide visual data representing personal understandings of concepts, experiences, beliefs, or behaviors, can be especially useful in helping participants to express complex or abstract ideas or opinions. The benefits and drawbacks of using graphic elicitation techniques for data collection, data analysis, and data display in qualitative research studies are analyzed using examples from a research study that employed data matrices and relational maps in conjunction with semi-structured interviews. Results from this analysis demonstrate that the use of these combined techniques for data collection facilitates triangulation and helps to establish internal consistency of data, thereby increasing the trustworthiness of the interpretation of that data and lending support to validity and reliability claims. Findings support the notion that graphic elicitation techniques can be highly useful in qualitative research studies at the data collection, the data analysis, and the data reporting stages. For example, this study found that graphic elicitation techniques are especially useful for eliciting data related to emotions and emotional experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The issue of how teens choose social networks and information communication technologies ( ICT's) for personal communication is complex. This study focused on describing how U. S. teens from a highly technological suburban high school select ICT's for personal communication purposes. Two research questions guided the study: (a) What factors influence high school seniors' selection of online social networks and other ICT's for everyday communication? (b) How can social network theory ( SNT) help to explain how teens select online social networks and other ICT's for everyday communication purposes? Using focus groups, a purposive sample of 45 teens were asked to discuss (a) their preferred methods for communicating with friends and family and why, (b) the reasons why they chose to engage (or not to engage) in online social networking, (c) how they selected ICT's for social networking and other communication purposes, and (d) how they decided whom to accept as online 'friends.' Findings indicated that many factors influenced participants' ICT selection practices including six major categories of selection factors: relationship factors, information/communication factors, social factors, systems factors, self-protection factors, and recipient factors. SNT was also helpful in explaining how 'friendship' was a major determining factor in their communication media and platform choices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses cyberbullying, the use of the Internet and similar digital technologies to deliberately and repeatedly harm others, and ways librarians can help prevent it. According to the article, cyberbullying is represented in behavior such as harassment, impersonation, and cyberstalking. The authors discuss which teens are most likely to be both victims of and participants in cyberbullying, noting that offline behavior is often an indicator. Suggested ways that librarians can help include emphasizing online disclosure of personal information, positive online social interaction, and online empathy. Also included are laws and policies regulating cyberbullying reporting, program ideas to educate and increase awareness, and a list of resources that provide further information.

The article addresses the perspectives of reference and information services (RIS) educators on the reference and information process of libraries. It focuses on a study involving focus group interviews and a meeting in which aspects of the RIS offerings of libraries, including trends in user behavior and librarian behavior and the model of the reference process in use in the early 21st century, were addressed. Topics include the impact of increasing availability of technologies on RIS, the use of multiple modes of reference, and the status of RIS in light of web 2.0 technologies. The role of the librarian as search and evaluator is also discussed.

This study investigated the teaching and learning barriers that prevent LIS instructors from achieving their goals in teaching reference and information services and considered what educators can learn from these barriers in order to improve the teaching of reference. The study methods involved focus group interviews with 16 LIS faculty members from 13 ALA-accredited LIS graduate programs in the U.S. and Canada. Data analysis uncovered three major categories of teaching and learning barriers: technological obstacles, student characteristics, and the nature of the field of reference. The article concludes with a discussion of the deeper themes that underlie the barriers identified and with ideas for reducing these barriers in order to increase the quality of reference and information services education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is widely recognized that the current and projected shortage of adequately-educated IT professionals could be greatly reduced if more female and minority students would major in IT disciplines, yet the dramatic under-representation of these populations appears to be worsening. This under-representation is reflected in Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology's undergraduate IT programs, which currently average just 9.7% female enrollment and just 9.7% non-Asian minority (Black, Hispanic, and Native American) enrollment. As an initial step in working toward redressing this under-representation, the authors present a theoretical framework for increasing marginalized students' (women and minorities) participation in the study of IT. The Changing Mental Models Framework builds on existing gender and IT research, applying research findings to the practical realm of students' everyday lives. Most studies of why women avoid IT have demonstrated that females who are making career choices care a lot about "solving problems" and much less about "technology." Studies of minority students' career decision-making have developed similar conclusions. The Framework proposes that universities partner with local schools and business organizations to demonstrate that IT careers are directly tied to solving real-life problems and to show female and minority students real IT professionals at work, solving real problems that affect real people like them. The Framework includes four distinct components: mentoring, social cohesion and peer support, role modeling, and curriculum redesign. The article includes a detailed literature review of research relating to each of these four areas. The Framework focuses on fostering positive and diverse mental models of IT careers and IT professionals. This goal is significant because female and minority students tend to view IT careers and the people who work in computing-related jobs as overridingly white, male, and technology-focused. Consequently, these student populations require active and ongoing mentoring, social support, role modeling, and curriculum redesign to help them understand that they possess similar qualities to IT professionals and managers, and that these career paths are open to them and to others like them. The next step in this process of working to increase female and minority IT enrollment and academic success will be to implement the proposed Framework and to monitor its effects on IT recruitment and retention. It is only through proactive social support measures such as the Framework proposed here that we can bring under-represented female and minority populations more equally into the IT world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article presents a study of source citing in telephone reference service at the twenty-five largest public library systems in the United States and Canada. The results showed that in eighty-six out of the 125 total reference transactions analyzed (68.8 percent of the cases), respondents gave no sources for their answers. The article also discusses a number of additional issues uncovered during the study that are not related to source citing but that have important implications for reference services. The authors conclude that best reference practices are not being followed in many instances of public library telephone reference, and they close with a number of simple suggestions for improving telephone, face-to-face, and digital reference services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports the results of a written survey of ninety-seven female and male adolescents, ages fourteen through seventeen, at two U.S. public libraries. In addition to exploring gender-related variance in the reasons for which teenagers use public libraries, the survey investigated how frequently the respondents needed information relating to twelve major topic areas and how useful they considered public libraries in helping them to find information relating to these topics. For the most part, the results indicated no significant gender difference in the respondents' reasons for using libraries or in their frequency of information needs. The only major gender difference was the girls' tendency to rate libraries as more useful in helping them to meet their personal information needs, making public libraries "female-friendly spaces" for adolescent girls. The authors conclude with suggestions for helping both female and male adolescents realize the full potential of public libraries and public library services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the availability of public libraries and scheduling of children's literacy programs to working parents' children in the U.S. Working parents can attend these programs with their children by offering library storytimes and other literacy programs in traditional off-work hours. Study reveals that most libraries recognize the need to accommodate the schedules of working parents with infants, toddlers or preschoolers through programs in the evening or on weekends. Here, the librarians indicated that the major impetus was a shift in community needs. The popularity of the children's programs varies from community to community in terms of attendance. However, some librarians reported that the numbers attending the programs do not match their weekday attendance.

The article discusses the collection of multicultural resources as a form of student advocacy and the ways in which students can benefit from a diverse school library collection. Moreover, it presents five criteria to use when evaluating multicultural resources. These include accuracy, expertise, respect, purpose and quality. It also concludes with a discussion of recommended resources for building library collections and a list of methods for integrating multicultural library resources into the school library curriculum. INSET: U.S. AWARDS FOR MULTI CULTURAL RESOURCES.

This is the second part of a two-part article that presents a theoretical and an empirical model of the everyday life information needs of urban teenagers. Part 2 focuses on the derivation of the empirical model and on its relationship to the theoretical model presented in Part 1. Part 2 also provides examples from the project data to support each of the components of the empirical model, which ties 28 information needs topics to the seven independent variables in the theoretical model. Comparison of the empirical model to the results of past youth information behavior research shows that the participants in this study tended to have the same types of information needs as previous researchers have found with more advantaged, nonminority groups of teens. This finding is significant because it suggests that teenagers have similar information needs across socioeconomic, ethnic, cultural, and geographic boundaries. Due to the exploratory nature of this study, however, additional research is necessary to confirm this possibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is the first part of a two-part article that offers a theoretical and an empirical model of the everyday life information needs of urban teenagers. The qualitative methodology used to gather data for the development of the models included written surveys, audio journals, written activity logs, photographs, and semistructured group interviews. Twenty-seven inner-city teens aged 14 through 17 participated in the study. Data analysis took the form of iterative pattern coding using QSR NVivo 2 software (QSR International, 2002). The resulting theoretical model includes seven areas of urban teen development: the social self, the emotional self, the reflective self, the physical self, the creative self, the cognitive self, and the sexual self. The researchers conclude that the essence of teen everyday life information seeking (ELIS) is the gathering and processing of information to facilitate the teen-to-adulthood maturation process. ELIS is self-exploration and world exploration that helps teens understand themselves and the social and physical worlds in which they live. This study shows the necessity of tying youth information-seeking research to developmental theory in order to examine the reasons why adolescents engage in various information behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents the author's analysis regarding the degree of variance in quality and quantity of digital resources in the U.S. urban public library system. Role of public libraries in reducing the digital divide for poorer populations; Uneven distribution of library resources among communities within the same public library system; Impact of private residents in communities with greater economic power on library-provided resources; Support of local commercial entities to libraries in communities with economic power.

This article presents preliminary findings from a research grant on the everyday life information-seeking (ELIS) behaviors of urban young adults. Twenty-seven teens aged 14 through 17 participated in the study. Qualitative data were gathered using written activity logs and semi-structured group interviews. A typology of urban teens' preferred ELIS sources, media types, and query topics is presented. The typology shows friends and family as preferred ELIS sources, cell phones as the preferred method of mediated communication, and schoolwork, time-related queries, and social life as the most common and most significant areas of ELIS. The results indicate a heavy preference for people as information sources and that urban teens hold generally unfavorable views of libraries and librarians. The conclusion lists questions that information practitioners should consider when designing programs and services for urban teens and calls for researchers to consider this often-ignored segment of the population as potential study participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines issues on gender and computer gaming. Negative representations of females in computer games; Suggestions for teacher-librarians in helping to counteract negative representations of females in computer games; Impact of computer confidence based in gaming experience on the success of girls in problem solving.

While there has been a notable increase in multicultural publishing over the past several years, this study indicates that the increase has not extended into genre fiction for middle-grade readers. The study entailed a content analysis of book reviews of fiction for the middle grades published between 1992 and 2001. A total of 4,255 reviews of genre fiction were analyzed. Although the 2000 U.S. Census indicated that about one third of the U.S. population of children is comprised of people of color, only 661, or less than one sixth, of the books were identified as containing at least one protagonist of color. In a more realistic representation of the world, about one third of the characters would be people of color. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article offers a theoretical model of the criteria young people use to evaluate websites. The model combines the concepts of personal preferences, object engagement characteristics, human processing constraints, and contextual constraints to predict a young person''s evaluation decision. The qualitative methodology used to gather data for the development and testing of this model included website evaluation sessions and group interviews with 11 young female students. Data analysis took the form of iterative pattern coding using QSR NUD*IST Vivo qualitative data analysis software. Data analysis uncovered strong support for the theoretical and empirical models. Related implications for website designers are discussed, with an emphasis on the importance of enabling users to modify website design to satisfy their personal preferences. Related implications for librarians and teachers are also discussed, with an emphasis on the importance of teaching young people to become more critical users of the Web. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Examines the relation of Simon's behavioral decision-making theories of bounded rationality and satisficing with decision making of youth in the world wide web. Role of personal preferences in Web-based decisions; Assessment of major satisficing behaviors; Implications of the study for Web site designers.

In most picture storybooks, the stories are told twice, once through text and once through illustration. The reader can comprehend such stories either through the words or through the pictures. Vandergrift called these books "twice-told tales"(68). Since both the texts and the illustrations of twice-told tales tell the same stories simultaneously, they employ parallel storytelling. Conversely, there exists a subset of picture storybooks for which the reader must consider both forms of media concurrently in order to comprehend the books' stories. Books belonging to this category employ interdependent storytelling. This paper presents a model and explicated examples of the major categories and subcategories of interdependent storytelling and a discussion of the role of interdependent storytelling in children's literary, artistic, and intellectual development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public libraries in the United States (U.S.) are important sources of health information. Immigrants comprise a large portion of the U.S. population, and research suggests that public libraries help immigrants adjust to life in a new country. Public libraries help immigrants access information directly related to health and provide programs that have indirect impacts on health outcomes, including learning a new language and forging social ties. The purpose of this paper was to examine perspectives from librarians related to interactions with immigrant patrons and how their library supports them in this role. Public librarians (n = 205) from two selected U.S. states completed an online survey focusing on how comfortable they were in helping immigrants with inquiries related to health and the role of the public library in supporting librarians in this endeavor. Respondents generally reported high levels of comfort interacting with immigrants, although there was limited interaction on potentially sensitive topics (i.e., immigration, health). Library staff perceived that libraries overall were not effective in meeting the needs of immigrant populations and that librarians were infrequently offered professional training related to cultural competency and diversity. The findings echo previous studies that demonstrate the need for professional development to ensure that librarians are aware of library resources available to assist immigrant patrons. Findings from this study suggest opportunities for public health professionals and public librarians to collaborate to ensure the provision of reliable resources, health information, and referrals to community-based services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior," by Raya Fidel.

Library websites are potentially important resources for parents and caregivers seeking guidance information regarding children's screen media use. This article analyzes a representative sample of 500 US public library websites to determine the discursive construction of children's use of screen media and the role of public libraries in providing guidance information. Descriptive analysis determined the presence of guidance information, qualitative thematic analysis examined the text identified as mediated information, and multimodal theory explored the communicative functions of the information. Forty-four sites (8.8%) contained guidance information, whereas 11 sites (2.2%) provided mediated information. Sites with mediated information position library staff as content curators as opposed to active media mentors. The information provided discursively constructs all media as internet-connected and risky while also positioning children as naive and unskilled. These connected constructions underestimate children's capacities, ignore beneficial and nuanced uses of screen media, and reinforce existing biases and hierarchies about "good parenting." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]