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Developing community-led public libraries : evidence from the UK and Canada / John Pateman, Thunder Bay Public Library, Canada, Ken Williment, Halifax Public Libraries, Canada.
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- ISBN: 9781409442066 (hardback)
- Physical Description: x, 243 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; [2013]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-234) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Consultation -- Needs assessment and research -- Library image and identity -- Outreach, community development and partnerships -- Information and communication technologies and social exclusion -- Materials provision -- Staffing, recruitment, training and education -- Mainstreaming and resourcing for social exclusion -- Standards and monitoring of services -- The community-led library service : a blue print for change -- A road map towards the community led library service. |
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Pateman and Williment synthesize their respective library experience to present a practical roadmap for library staff to integrate and sustain community-led development in their libraries. Their data is from the UK and Canada. It is in large part a review of Pateman's work studying public libraries and social exclusion in Open to All: the Public Library and Social Exclusion and Willament's work with the Working Together Project to foster community-led approaches to library operation in Halifax, Toronto, Regina, and Vancouver. They consider needs-based library service strategies comprehensively and holistically, stressing the need to meet many user-needs and not just those of core users. They examine approaches to community-driven approaches to consultation, assessing and prioritizing needs, library image and identity, outreach and community-led development, the role of new information technologies in tackling social exclusion, developing holistic collections policies that ensure community needs are reflected, staffing and related education or training, placing community needs at the center of organizational culture, and monitoring of service performance. A final chapter presents their blueprint for changing to a more community-led library. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - Taylor & Francis Publishing
This important book examines the potential for a new community led service model in public libraries. Using theoretical approaches to working with socially excluded community members, with a direct application of those approaches in Canadian public libraries, the authors offer a powerful and persuasive case for adopting the community led approach in libraries worldwide. The book showcases good practice and outlines the challenges to community development work. With public libraries facing budget cuts, this book offers an alternative way forward based on a community led approach to developing needs based library services. This book makes a unique contribution to public library thinking and policy, synthesising the outcomes of research and best practice at the cutting edge of library service delivery, and will be essential reading for all those researching and working in the public library sector. - Taylor & Francis Publishing
This important book examines the potential for a new community led service model in public libraries. Using theoretical approaches to working with socially excluded community members, with a direct application of those approaches, the authors offer a powerful and persuasive case for adopting the community led approach in libraries worldwide. The book showcases good practice and outlines the challenges to community development work. With public libraries facing budget cuts, this book offers an alternative way forward based on a community led approach to developing needs based library services.
