Creating a Person-Centered Library

Name: Creating a Person-Centered Library
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781440880834
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Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons

By Elizabeth A. Wahler and Sarah C. Johnson

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Summary

Creating a Person-Centered Library offers a thorough guide on services, programmes, and collaborations tailored for libraries serving high-needs patrons facing homelessness, food insecurity, mental health issues, substance abuse, and poverty. The authors blend insights from library science and social work to explore patrons' psychosocial needs and the societal shifts impacting library roles. Practical chapters present best practices for person-centred services, address specific patron populations, and highlight ways library organisations can support their staff.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for librarians and library students interested in enhancing support for high-needs patrons and the wellbeing of library staff.

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Creating a Person-Centered Library provides a comprehensive overview of various services, programs, and collaborations to help libraries serve high-needs patrons as well as strategies for supporting staff working with these individuals.

While public libraries are struggling to address growing numbers of high-needs patrons experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, mental health problems, substance abuse, and poverty-related needs, this book will help librarians build or contribute to library services that will best address patrons' psychosocial needs.

The authors, experienced in both library and social work, begin by providing an overview of patrons' psychosocial needs, structural and societal reasons for the shift in these needs, and how these changes impact libraries and library staff. Chapters focus on best practices for libraries providing person-centered services and share lessons learned, including information about special considerations for certain patron populations that might be served by individual libraries.

The book concludes with information about how library organisations can support public library staff. Librarians and library students who are concerned about both patrons and library staff will find the practical advice in this book invaluable.

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Noah Lenstra praises the book as a clear, timely, and practical guide for transforming libraries to better support patrons and staff, emphasising its basis in social work principles. Jane Garner highlights it as a compassionate and practical resource, well-timed and valuable for libraries worldwide.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781440880834

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 405g

Pages: 256

Collections

Education & Reference Elizabeth A. Wahler Non-Fiction Sarah C. Johnson Science & Nature

About the Author

Elizabeth A. Wahler is Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Sarah C. Johnson is adjunct lecturer at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.