scholarly journals Library Service to Underserved Children and Their Caregivers Committee: It Takes Two (Or More): Developing Partnerships to Serve Marginalized Populations

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Melody Leung ◽  
Marika Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Library Staff

As our name suggests, the Library Service to Underserved Children and Their Caregivers (LSUCTC) committee seeks to help library staff better serve children and families who are often marginalized and overlooked by traditional library programs and services. A significant part of our committee’s work is focused on developing toolkits that provide resources and ideas for assisting a variety of these overlooked demographics, and we encourage readers to visit our toolkits here: tinyurl.com/lsuctctoolkit.

The Term “Library Service” in the Conceptual Framework of Library Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-363
Author(s):  
Yuri N. Stolyarov
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Library Science ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Service Information ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Different Content

The article considers the contradiction in concepts connected with key content of the library activity. Some fundamental documents use the term “library service”, others use “information and library service”, “library and information service” terms. The different content is also given to these concepts. The inconsistency is increased by the fact that since Soviet times the library services have often been understood as library activity in general. There is given the brief review of primarily positions on the conceptual framework of library service: library activity, work with readers, guidance of reading, library service, library and information service, information and library service. In violation of the Federal Law № 78-FZ “On Librarianship”, the term “library and information service” is enshrined in the names of textbooks, GOST R 7.0.103—2018 “Library and information service. Terms and definitions” and GOST R 7.0.104—2019 “Library and information services of scientific library. Types, forms and modes of delivery”. While library science is striving hard to integrate itself into information science, information science itself is far from recognising library and bibliographic science as an integral part of it. “Library service” is considered both as specific and general library science concept. The definition of “work” in relation to library science is given: it is the function of library staff to create values, provide benefits or meet the informational, cultural, educational needs of readers. The author proposes to intensify the concept of “library readers study”, to develop thoroughly its theory and methodology. The paper provides additional arguments in favour of the concept of “library readers study” in addition to the well-known ones. It is argued that in addition to revealing the links between the readers’ contingent and the library staff, it is necessary to reveal the links of the “readers’ contingent” subsystem with other subsystems of the first and second circuits of the library as a system.

scholarly journals The Impact and Effect of Learning 2.0 Programs in Australian Public Libraries

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Stephens ◽  
Warren Cheetham
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract Objective – With adoption of the program world-wide, the Learning 2.0 model has been lauded by library professionals as a mechanism to educate library staff and transform libraries. This study, part of the 2009 CAVAL Visiting Scholar project, seeks to measure the impact and legacy of the model within Australian public libraries to understand what benefits, changes and effects occur. Methods – A national Web-based survey for those who had participated in a learning 2.0 program. Results – The national survey had 384 respondents, and a total of 64 respondents were identified as the public library staff data set for this article. Public library staff reported success in the program and described feelings of increased confidence, inclusivity, and a move to use emerging technologies as part of library service. Conclusion – The analysis yields the following thematic areas of impact and effect: personal practice is enhanced with knowledge and confidence; impact is mainly personal, but organisational changes may follow; the library is using the tools to varying degrees of success, and organizational blocks prevent use of tools. These finding offer evidence that Learning 2.0 programs can have a positive effect on library staff and subsequently on the organization itself.

Celebrating a Century of Women in the Law: Using Historical Exhibitions to Enhance User Engagement and Promote a Library Service

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
Vanessa Curley ◽  
Sarah Foley
Keyword(s):  
Digital Archive ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law Library

AbstractIn 2019 the Bar of Ireland Law Library launched an online exhibition detailing the first one hundred years of women in the law in Ireland and the first one hundred women called to the Irish Bar. The online exhibition coincided with the centenary celebrations of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 and a physical exhibition curated in collaboration with the Honorable Society of Kings Inns and the Law Society of Ireland. This article by Vanessa Curley and Sarah Foley explores the background to how Law Library staff became involved in creating historical exhibitions, the development of a digital archive of The Bar of Ireland and curating online exhibitions to complement this. It will also discuss the benefits of such activities to the Law Library service and the wider Bar of Ireland.

scholarly journals Every Child Ready to Read: Building Bridges to Early Childhood Educators

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Saroj Ghoting ◽  
Pamela Rogers ◽  
Dorothy Stoltz
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
The Public ◽  
Library Staff

The more we librarians can be a part of [our partners’] world, the more our partners help us shape library services to be responsive to the community,” says Mary Hastler, CEO of Harford County (MD) Public Library.More than twelve years after its inception, the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library initiative (ECRR) continues to expand in response to our needs. To help library staff strengthen and deepen our connections with our community partners, the Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children have enhanced the content in a new downloadable toolkit (https://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=11997) targeting early childhood educators.

scholarly journals Serving Transgender Patrons in Academic Libraries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Gustav Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Library Staff

This essay explores library service to transgender patrons looking first at relevant federal legislation and library policies that support services and then discussing steps library staff can take to provide meaningful support for transgender patrons.

Blurring the Borders with Anzaldúa in Context-Informed, Anti-Oppressive Research: The Case of Bedouin Women

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibtisam Marey-Sarwan ◽  
Dorit Roer-Strier ◽  
Roni Strier
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Marginalized Populations ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Negative Role ◽  
History Of Social Work

Abstract Studies show that context-blind, quasi-universalist professional discourses may engender oppressive social work practices with excluded populations. For example, research confirms that social work with children and families, overtly or covertly embedded in Eurocentric, binary discourse of risk and protection, has played a highly negative role in the history of social work with non-Western populations. Based on Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of the border, the article proposes context-informed, anti-oppressive social work research as a strategy to deconstruct binary and essentialist social work discourses with marginalized populations. Exemplified by a research project conducted in partnership with thirty-three Bedouin women in the southern part of Israel, the article offers a platform for the examination of the border as a liminal arena in which change took place by blurring theoretical, methodological and practical borders.

scholarly journals May I Borrow a Stapler? Is This All Students Ask at the Service Desk in a University Library?

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 32-45
Author(s):  
Liv Inger Lamøy ◽  
Astrid Kilvik
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Service Desk ◽  
Document Delivery ◽  
University Library ◽  
Lost And Found ◽  
The Future ◽  
Library Staff

Objective – The objective of the study is to increase the knowledge about what questions students ask at the library desk and what the purpose is of their use of the desk. Our focus has been on the physical meetings with the students. The aim is to contribute to the discussion on the future development of the library service desk.   Methods – We recorded questions asked at the desks to explore how students use the library service desks. The recording, where library staff sorted questions into predefined categories, took place over four weeks between the years 2017–2018. Results – Our recording showed that 63% of the questions asked at the library service desks were about loan services, document delivery, and access to physical and electronic collections. Practical things such as opening hours, lost and found items, and the location of the group study rooms, accounted for 16% of questions. Questions about information technology (IT) made up 8% of questions. Finally, the results showed that 8% of the questions from the four weeks of counting were counselling and guidance questions, and 2% were about literature lists, reference management, and reference management tools. We found more questions about counselling and guidance in the spring weeks and more practical questions in the fall. We did not find any clear connection between the number of questions and the size of the branch libraries. Conclusion – By conducting this study, we have learned more about why students use the library desk. Our study shows that students come to the library desk to ask about a lot more than just borrowing staples. The results from the study will inform the development of the library desk service going forward.  

scholarly journals Whose Safety is the Priority?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allie Fry ◽  
Jeanie Austin
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Grassroots Activism ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Critical Engagement ◽  
International Scale ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
The U.S

Police and policing have tacitly, and at times explicitly, been normalized as aspects of library service in the U.S. As American forms of policing are exported at an international scale, this has international implications. Justification for embedded policing inside library walls has turned upon librarian and library staff conceptions of safety. This essay posits that a lack of critical engagement with the topics of policing and safety reflects the deficit of substantive discourse around antiracist pedagogy within library and information science (LIS) education and practice. The paper pairs critical research on safety and criminalization with patrons’ comments on policing and grassroots activism by LIS professionals to rethink safety as something shared between librarians, staff, patrons, and potential patrons (the community). Ongoing, organized campaigns around policing and security within libraries are documented so that their efforts, trials, and successes will engender further research and set a marked precedent of how LIS education and professions can reevaluate the role of policing and police in library settings everywhere.

scholarly journals Where Are We Now? The Evolving Use of New Media with Young Children in Libraries

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Kathleen Campana ◽  
J. Elizabeth Mills ◽  
Marianne Martens ◽  
Claudia Haines
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Young Children ◽  
New Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Library Service ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Apply Research ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Library Staff ◽  
Research Based Practices

The topic of using new media with young children (zero to five years old) in the library has been a focus of conversations in the field for several years. An Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) survey, administered to children’s library staff from across the United States in 2014, provided a foundation for these conversations by revealing how library staff were using new media with young children and their families. The results of the survey, which revealed widespread inclusion of new media in library spaces, along with the innovative work of library staff and community needs, spurred profession-wide initiatives to apply research-based practices to how libraries support the literacy and media needs of families.

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