Community Information Services in Public Libraries-A solution to Information Poverty

Information explosion and the rapid growth in the field of Information and Community Information Technology have made tremendous changes in the life of human beings. Despite the fact that these developments have made many positive impacts on the society, they also created some undesirable impacts on the society, mainly the gap between the information haves and information have nots or otherwise called information rich and information poor. The information poor are the victims of insufficient resources, updated information, lack of basic training in retrieving the information. This paper provides an analytical overview of the existing literature on information poverty and explores strategies of reducing information poverty through Community Information Services in Public Libraries.