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{"title":"A Public Library as a Gateway for Social Work Community Practice: An Information-in-practice from Kerala, India","authors":"Abshana Jamal, M.K. Joseph, P.V. Vijesh","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2271694","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2271694","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPlacing social work trainees in public libraries is a relatively new concept in India. Library social work offers a fresh perspective by locating social work activities in the public library setting. Integrating social work practices within public libraries facilitates community development and social change. This paper considers the unexplored opportunities related to library social work in India through Rajagiri’s Model of Library Social Work.KEYWORDS: Social workpublic librarieslibrary social workcommunity engagementKerala AcknowledgementWe are grateful to the Management and authorities of Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, the faculty members of the Department of Social Work and Library and Information Sciences, the students, the library council, and the members of Kairali Library for their wholehearted support and belief in this unconventional field placement.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAbshana JamalAbshana Jamal is a Doctoral Scholar (JRF) with the Department of Social Work, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Cochin. She has served as a faculty member of the Department of Social Work for two years. Her areas of interest are ecosocial work/ green social work, library social work, entrepreneurship development and community development.M.K. JosephDr M.K. Joseph is an Associate Professor at Rajagiri College of Social Sciences, Cochin. He was the former Head of the Department of Social Work and has taught social work students for over 20 years. His primary interests lie in developing partnerships for civil society organisations and rural producer organisations with governmental and other resource systems in addressing issues related to sustainable development.P.V. VijeshP.V. Vijesh is a librarian at the Rajagiri College of Social Sciences in Kerala, India. He has more than 15 years of experience in college library administration. His research interests include User studies, digital literacy, content analysis, and others.","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"46 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136102424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Librarian and Social Work Identity in an Online Interprofessional Community of Practice for Responsive Librarianship Training","authors":"Denise Shereff, Yiping Lou","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2271645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2271645","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis qualitative case study explored librarians’ and social workers’ experiences in an online scenario-game-based training program for Responsive Librarianship, a model for the delivery of personalised library services in response to a health or wellness concern. Analysis was conducted using the Community of Asynchronous Interprofessional Learning Model to determine how participants’ responses to course design and activities related to community of practice characteristics. Findings from this study explain how an online training program influences the development of professional identity among librarians and social workers in an interprofessional community of practice learning to provide Responsive Librarianship.KEYWORDS: Interprofessionaleducationasynchronousinstructiondesign AcknowledgementsFlorida’s Library Services and Technology Award program is administered by the Department of State’s Division of Library and Information Services. This grant was a one-year project for which the author (Shereff) was key personnel. The grant provided a mechanism for developing the Responsive Librarianship training curriculum and a basic prototype for testing.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe project on which much of this research is based was funded under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.Notes on contributorsDenise ShereffDenise Shereff, PhD, MLIS, AHIP is an Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Information at the University of South Florida. She teaches in the areas of consumer health information and health information literacy. Her research focuses on online interprofessional communities of practice for librarians and social workers using scenario-based games for Responsive Librarianship.Yiping LouYiping Lou, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Instructional Technology in the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies at the University of South Florida. She teaches courses on development of technology-based instruction, distance learning, and research in technology-supported learning. Her research interests centre on effects and factors impacting on technology-supported learning including online learning, inquiry-based science learning, scenario-based simulation and game-based learning.","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"47 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136102423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Work in Libraries Special Issue","authors":"Jane Garner, Monique Shephard, Kasey Garrison, Karen Bell, Sabine Wardle","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2272337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2272337","url":null,"abstract":"on a study exploring social workers and librarians ’ experiences of Respon-sive Librarianship training through online asynchronous scenario-game-based platform and how this in fl uenced their professional identity as members of a community of practice. Through journalling, the ten participants re fl ected on the training modules, interactions with other trainees and the scenario-based games related to professional identity. Interviews and surveys at points throughout the training were also conducted, and course documents collected and analysed concurrently. Coding and thematic analysis were undertaken, with concepts of identity de fi ned using the Community of Asynchronous Interprofessional Learning Model (CAIPLM). Results showed that the scenario-game-based platform for training within an interprofessional community of practice merited future exploration and re fi nement. The authors indicate that the","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135221499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Changing How Libraries Respond to Patrons Experiencing Homelessness in Crisis: How Library Social Workers are Perceived to Reduce Reliance on Law Enforcement","authors":"Mary A. Provence","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2270807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2270807","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhile early research on library social work has described the broad role of social workers and included some aspects of crisis response, no study has given an in-depth explanation of how social workers are changing libraries’ response to crisis with patrons experiencing homelessness. This embedded multiple-case study across three U.S. urban libraries includes the perspectives of 107 unique participants across six broad roles – patrons experiencing homelessness, library police/security, front-facing staff, social workers, branch managers and chief executive officers. With 46 in-depth Zoom interviews and 91 Qualtrics surveys, this study provides extensive qualitative support that library social workers are perceived to reduce libraries’ reliance on law enforcement to handle crises with patrons experiencing homelessness. Three key themes of how social workers influenced libraries’ responses were found: being an option, running interference and buffering. In addition, a comingled rival was identified: the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement.KEYWORDS: Crisisde-escalationhomelessnesslibrary social workBlack Lives Matterpolice brutality Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsMary A. ProvenceMary A. Provence, PhD is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Social Work at Ball State University and is a Licenced Clinical Social Worker. In her early career, she spent four years as an outreach social worker on the streets of Indianapolis with youth experiencing homelessness. With 31 years of practice across the micro and macro spectrum, Mary is an avid researcher of the emerging field of public library social work as a response to homelessness.","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"48 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136102422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Three Models of Practice: Impacts on the De-escalation Role of Library Social Workers During Crises with Patrons Experiencing Homelessness","authors":"Mary A. Provence","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2262074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2262074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTHeretofore, models of library social work have primarily been described in terms of the employment status of the social worker (full or part time, employed by library or agency, etc.) rather than the programmatic structure of the services. This research study identifies and describes three different models of public library social work practice: The Signup and Summon Model; The Outreach and Summon Model, and the Social Work Center Model. Next, it explains how each model impacts the de-escalation role of the social worker during crises with patrons experiencing homelessness. The perceived impact of the social worker’s de-escalation role included patrons experiencing homelessness being less likely to interact with security and police and less likely to be excluded, arrested, or jailed. Using an embedded multiple-case study approach, the larger study from which this study is drawn spanned across three United States’ urban libraries with 107 distinct participants, 91 surveys and 46 in-depth interviews. Taking a comprehensive look at the role of social workers during the crisis, the views of six different roles are included: patrons experiencing homelessness, front-facing library staff, library police/security, chief executive officers, branch managers, and social workers.KEYWORDS: Crisisde-escalationhomelessnesslibrary social work Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 This author chose the term ‘people experiencing homelessness’ as it is recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA) style guidelines (APA, Citation2020, p. 148) and was used in the data collection instruments. The author is also aware that there is no consensus around the use of this term. In the use of this term, it was the author’s intent to emphasize personhood and avoid objectification.Additional informationNotes on contributorsMary A. ProvenceMary A. Provence, PhD is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Social Work at Ball State University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. In her early career, she spent four years as an outreach social worker on the streets of Indianapolis with youth experiencing homelessness. With 31 years of practice across the micro and macro spectrum, Mary is an avid researcher of the emerging field of public library social work as a response to homelessness.","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135923547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Serving patrons with disabilities: perspectives and insights from people with disabilities","authors":"E. Boamah","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2272314","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2272314","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"11 1","pages":"509 - 510"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Libraries and sanctuary: supporting refugees and other new arrivals","authors":"Caroline Beatty","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2272727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2272727","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"26 1","pages":"512 - 512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Anticipating and Overcoming Common Challenges for Library and Social Work Collaborations","authors":"Sarah C. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Wahler","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2261598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2261598","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe growing popularity of interdisciplinary partnerships among social workers and public libraries on a global level has resulted in the need to clarify common challenges that team members frequently encounter. Currently, many new library/social work collaborations are ‘reinventing the wheel’ as they design a new partnership, unaware of and unable to anticipate barriers. Based on the emerging research primarily stemming from the United States, information is presented in this article to guide public libraries and social workers across the globe to understand and navigate these common challenges. Authors of this manuscript note the benefits of cross-disciplinary partnerships and outline five prevalent obstacles both public librarians and social workers face when joining forces. Recommendations for anticipating and responding to these challenges are presented to libraries interested in social work partnerships and to branches that already collaborate with social service professionals. To prepare emerging professionals for such collaborations, guidance is also offered for modifying existing curricula to both social work and library and information sciences graduate education.KEYWORDS: Public librariessocial workinterdisciplinary collaborationslibrary social work Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsSarah C. JohnsonSarah C. Johnson, MLIS, LMSW, is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois where she teaches a graduate 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.Elizabeth A. WahlerElizabeth Wahler is research faculty affiliate and previous director of the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and founder of Beth Wahler Consulting. She is a researcher, educator, consultant, and social worker that has collaborated with individual libraries, large library systems, and statewide library organisations throughout the U.S. to conduct needs assessments of their patrons’ psychosocial needs and staff challenges with these types of patron needs, provide training to library staff about trauma-informed approaches to address their patrons’ psychosocial needs and reduce staff stress, and has created and piloted various interventions to address patron needs while also supporting staff. She has presented internationally on these topics and has published numerous articles on library patron and staff needs in peer-reviewed journals. She is co-author of “Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons,” published by Bloomsbur","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135769260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Work in Public Libraries: An International Scoping Review","authors":"Monique Shephard, Jane Garner, Karen Bell, Sabine Wardle","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2255940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2255940","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis article reports on findings of an international scoping review of literature on social work in libraries. The review explored how social work is practised in libraries, and barriers and facilitators to embedding professional social work within public libraries. Using a literature search protocol, databases were systematically searched, and results refined through several phases of data screening, resulting in 16 articles eligible for inclusion. The dataset was thematically analysed by the research team. Data analysis revealed that most articles emanate from research undertaken in metropolitan settings in the United States, and that empirical research has typically been small-scale, using qualitative or mixed methods. Most articles described social work as multidimensional, including direct contact roles with library visitors, as well as indirect practice with library staff for professional development purposes. In the dataset, authors acknowledged the changing role of libraries that sees a greater focus on addressing social justice issues with increasingly diverse populations of library visitors and their evolving needs – a focus in common with social workers’ practice. Authors identified opportunities and challenges regarding interprofessional collaboration between social workers and library staff, including role boundaries and sustainability. Building on these themes, implications for future research and interprofessional practice are discussed.KEYWORDS: Public librariessocial workinterprofessional partnershipssocial justicepsychosocial needs AcknowledgementsThis research was supported by funding from the Charles Sturt University Future of the Professions Research Group. The initial database searches were carried out by Research Assistant, Dr Sue HenczelDisclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Charles Sturt University.Notes on contributorsMonique ShephardMonique Shephard, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Future of the Professions Research Group at Charles Sturt University. Monique’s academic experience spans 10 years across the disciplines of social work, teacher librarianship, English, and in PhD candidate training. Her PhD from Charles Sturt was interdisciplinary, grounded in knowledge from the social work, English and librarianship disciplines. Monique also has experience in private child and adolescent psychology practice, and in public libraries with a focus on the youth literature collection. Monique is a member of the Libraries Research Group, the Environmental and Social Justice Group, and the Social Equality Intersectionality & Inclusion Research Group at Charles Sturt. Her current research includes projects on adolescent mental health in schools, environmental practice in social work, disaster resilience and open access training for doctoral students.Jane GarnerJane Garner, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer with the S","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135011541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Perceptions of Supervisors of Library Social Work Interns: Challenges and Recommendations","authors":"Mark Giesler, Sarah Johnson, Margaret Ann Paauw","doi":"10.1080/24750158.2023.2255941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/24750158.2023.2255941","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThough the number of public libraries that host student interns is increasing around the world, there is a paucity of research about the experience of supervisors in these placements. This study addresses that absence through qualitative interviews with fourteen individuals with experience supervising library-based social work students. An iterative data analysis elucidated four challenges connected to their roles: (1) philosophical differences between libraries and social work; (2) navigating structural/bureaucracy issues in the library system; (3) managing ethical considerations in students’ work; and (4) negotiating the lack of precedence of the library/social work collaborative. Participants further identified specific tactics they took and/or recommended in response to these challenges. The study concludes with recommendations made by the authors based on the study and the research literature.KEYWORDS: Social work supervisionlibrary internslibrary-social work collaboration Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsMark GieslerMark Giesler, PhD, LMSW, is Professor of Social Work at Saginaw Valley State University. His research agenda includes qualitative studies of marginalized groups, including LGBT individuals and homeless populations, and most recently, studies of the intersection of public libraries and social work. He currently is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative Research.Sarah JohnsonSarah Johnson, MLIS, LMSW, is an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois where she teaches a graduate 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.Margaret Ann PaauwMargaret Ann Paauw, is an assistant professor at Eastern Michigan University and licensed clinical social worker. Paauw has been practicing social work since 2012, working mainly with people experiencing homelessness/housing insecurity and serious mental illness. Dr. Paauw's research background includes social work practice in libraries and multidisciplinary treatment for youth with first episode psychosis.","PeriodicalId":53976,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135488624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}