Developing Community-Led Public Libraries : Evidence from the UK and Canada /

Developing Community-Led Public Libraries : Evidence from the UK and Canada / by John Pateman and Ken Williment.

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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 com...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Pateman, John, 1956-
Other Authors: Williment, Ken
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, UK : Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
Subjects:
Libraries and community > Great Britain.
Libraries and community > Canada.
Libraries and society > Great Britain.
Libraries and society > Canada.
Public libraries > Great Britain > Administration.
Public libraries > Canada > Administration.
Public services (Libraries) > Great Britain.
Public services (Libraries) > Canada.
Libraries and community.
Libraries and society.
Public libraries > Administration.
Public services (Libraries)
Canada.
Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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