Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons - Softcover

Wahler, Elizabeth A.; Johnson, Sarah C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440880832 ISBN 13: 9781440880834

Verlag: Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

A comprehensive overview of various services, programs, and collaborations to help libraries serve high-need patrons as well as strategies for supporting staff working with these individuals.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Elizabeth A. Wahler is Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, and founder of Beth Wahler Consulting. She has collaborated with libraries and library systems across the United States to conduct assessments of their patrons' psychosocial needs and staff challenges with these types of patron needs; provided training to library staff about trauma-informed librarianship and other approaches to addressing their patrons' needs; and created and piloted various interventions to address patron needs and support library staff. She is recognized internationally for her work on library and social work collaborations.

Sarah C. Johnson, MLIS, LMSW, is adjunct lecturer at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, where she teaches a course on library social work. She is a licensed social worker, and her research focuses on the impact of social work students conducting their field placements at public libraries. Her aim is to foster quality internships by building alliances among students, public librarians, and social work educators, with the goal of enhancing services to library patrons and their wider community.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1440880832
• ISBN 13: 9781440880834
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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