Creating a person-centered library : best practices for supporting high-needs patrons
Wahler, Elizabeth A.2024
Book
"Public libraries are struggling to address growing numbers of high-need patrons experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, mental health problems, substance abuse, and poverty-related needs. Creating a Person-Centred Library 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-centred 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 organizations 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
Creating a person-centered library : best practices for supporting high-needs patrons / Elizabeth A. Wahler and Sarah C. Johnson.
Author:
Wahler, Elizabeth A., authorJohnson, Sarah C., author
Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited, 2024.©2024
Collation:
xii, 242 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781440880834 (pbk)9781440880834 (pbk)9781440880834 (paperback)
Dewey class:
027.473
LC class:
Z716.4
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
799463
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| City Library | -Society | SOCIETY 027.473 WAHL | Available |
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Society | SOCIETY 027.473 WAHL | On loan - Due: 10 Jul 2026 |
| Southbank Library | Library Professional Development | LPD 027.473 WAHL | Available |