World Library and Information Congress : 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council
"Libraries for the future: Progress, Development and Partnerships "
19 to 23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa
FAIFE (Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression) und AIDS / HIV
Bibliotheken überbrücken soziale Unterschiede, Informations-Zugangs-Hindernisse, transformieren Information, um soziales Verhalten zu ändern
Social inclusion: how can public libraries embrace the challenge of reaching out to serve all people in their community?Bridging the information gap - digital inclusion
WLIC 2007 - Konferenzbeiträge
Overview and information issues concerning the HIV/AIDS situation in Africa KINGO MCHOMBU and CHIKU MCHOMBU (University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia)
HIV/AIDS Information Seeking and Healthcare Communications in Sub-Saharan Africa KENDRA ALBRIGHT (University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
Information Literacy in Practice: engaging public library workers in rural South Africa KARIN DE JAGER and MARY NASSIMBENI (Centre for Information Literacy, Department of LIS, Cape Town, South Africa)
Braving Rapids, winding timber-tracks: towards equitable access to information for libraries in Sarawak RASHIDAH BINTY BOLHASSAN (Sarawak State Library, Malaysia)
What is Community Centre, Gallerup? LONE HEDELUND(Arhus Public Library, Denmark)
Serving Patrons in Their Language, Not Just Ours PAUL S. ULRICH (Berlin Central and Regional Library, Germany) and SUSAN McGlamery (Cooperative Services, OCLC)
Changing information behavior: education, research and relationships JUDITH BROADLY-PRESTON (University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK)
HIV / AIDS is one of the biggest problems of the entire African continent. Apart from access to health care and antiretroviral drugs, which is difficult enough and usually too expensive is it here, above all, to the social behavior that one of the factors for infection and spread of the pandemic of HIV / AIDS in Africa, is. Meanwhile, there is
addition to questions of how information is to be treated and what role can libraries play in theories also "learn", ie ways to take effect by providing information on changes in social behavior.
In the West, be considered in health campaigns now mainly psychological elements that cause it so that information is assumed to be true and may lead to subsequent changes in behavior - It would have to compare information campaigns and find out which elements to success.
libraries have this important role and are now developing theories and it can be reached as in social crisis situations or in crisis areas of the pure information transfer to actively influence the behavior.
be the basis of "Health Behavior Theories" should "Information Behavior Theories developed.
is certain is that experienced by the / d, which provides information about the inequality, you feel passively to authority, and therefore this situation is often rejected in principle as a whole.
Here's flexibility and imagination of the required information brokers. The information can also be packaged and indirectly in conversation often work better than the dry instructing top down. The most successful one will be if the material in many languages, especially the local native languages available, and if one is not limited to the written form of mediation, but radio programs, TV shows, such as soap operas, plays, songs, blogs, involving and recognized authorities wins - singer, actor, former child soldiers - are sometimes very popular ...
out by Wissensmanagemen explanatory information about certain desired actions.
-> see the book of the liberation theologians Paolo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed
The neglect of the issues arranged such as knowledge, can be transformed and gives explains why the awareness about HIV / AIDS in Africa is big now, but this knowledge has little effect on the behavior of men.
information must therefore convert, to be effective in Africa and that has to happen very soon.
The theoretically known written knowledge should be translated into experience.
The tools for this are already there, they do not have to be invented.
There are various corner points in the knowledge that must be respected, as the questions: Who
know something?
Why and where did he know?
How much is worth the knowledge? How is
it to?
It should be possible to control the pandemic through information and possess information must lead to the fact that people are actors, rather than seeing themselves as passive victims gelled.
AIDS requires constant agitation, for it is a very quiet and silent disease, which gradually takes possession of their victims.
Best practices are practices that have been under a great amount of practices in use already proven by testing different parameters than the best.
eg libraries have extensive experience with best practices for collecting, cataloging, evaluating and deploying knowledge.
The U.S. government tends
under the Bush administration to AIDS / HIV projects, in their concepts, the terms "condom" or "abortion" appear not to support and demand as the only strategy against AIDS, sexual abstinence and marital fidelity.
That's the reality over and information that is conveyed with such unrealistic demands, can not be accepted.
knowledge management would have to democratic and politically independent as possible to go forward and take into account local needs, cultural traditions and above all the local languages. The extent of the economic and social dependence of women, their socio-economic inferiority - is hard to imagine in the West and is therefore also in Western theories hardly noticed.
The Health and Information Behavior Theories should include the following
-> Gender difference regarding the knowledge and skill base - as long as fees must be charged and the gender differences are socially so large, are girls less willingly sent to school and get less well educated
-> boundaries of behavior, to learn how - native languages are often not taken into account, the official and school languages are the languages of the former colonizers
-> integration and use of all factors, such as Education, communication techniques, Psycholgie, public health care
The western Representations Health Behavior Theories are
- explanatory
- Change emphasizes
- message-oriented
- faith emphasizes
- intervention orient
All together, unfortunately, applies not simply to the special problem of AIDS HIV in Africa .
this - especially in developed countries - developed and implemented theories a little consideration, namely that human behavior is not necessarily rational, and certainly not in the area of sexuality. There is - apart from the cultural, and psychological and ideological factors that are not be considered by the Information Behavior Theories.
The role of each culture needs to be much more involved, health campaigns are otherwise completely past their target groups.
In Africa, one has to deal with cultures that are not oriented to the individual, but mainly in communities: there are families, tribal cultures.
integration of journalism and libraries :
The information must be integrated early on in their education. Verhaltensmotivierung must take place. Apart from funds had the propaganda and the manipulation of / the librarian as a trusted intermediary, as a curator and animator, opportunities influence on behavior.
We librarians need to know that without the recognition and empowerment of people as agents and managers, information is not accepted and does not lead to behavior change.
work in Africa so far in the course of the AIDS education Peer to peer groups, youth clubs, the recovery of the traditional authorities that are trusted, the inclusion of musicians, singers and actors as role models.
librarians can make this experience their own and try to experiment on their part with it - the one to find out the kind of information the user is really looking for, and for the right track, Information to convey.
librarians and patrons are partners in the common way of discovering knowledge - the role of the librarian as the owner of knowledge and guardian of access, impose the questioning and the waiting reader his language and his understanding of culture, definitely a thing of the past.
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