The main purpose of this section is to provide tools and resources to assist libraries to convey to the media and the general public the important role that they play as a source of information about children and the Internet.

A series of short texts have been developed, using the tag-line: “Internet facts from your public library” to facilitate this purpose.

They are:

• What kids really do on the Internet
  
  
• What kids do most online: not what their parents think!
  
  
• Age does make a difference
  
  
• Telling fact from fiction

In them you will find the facts and figures on Internet use by children, drawn from the Media Awareness Network’s research initiative Young Canadians in a Wired World.

Download these documents (linked to in the right sidebar) and send them as they are to the media. Use them to enrich your own documents. Print them for distribution when you are presenting Web Awareness workshops or meeting with other community groups. They may also be made available to the general public at the circulation desk.

At the bottom of each text you may add the name and address, with the e-mail of your library or your library association. You can also personalize the title of the series: for example – [Name of your library] has the facts and figures.

Managing the Internet in the Library

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