This 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 …

Objective–Across North America, public libraries have increasingly served their communities
by working with partners to connect patrons to essential healthcare services, including …

Heretofore, 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.) …

Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, this study explored how five public
librarians in the United States experience and understand their library work with children …

Public libraries are trusted community hubs that foster connections with individuals of
different socioeconomic statuses; ages; ethnic, linguistic, religious, and cultural …

Intersectionality can be applied as a practice-based lens through which to perceive 21st-
century public library services to adults. Intersectionality as a framework can facilitate the …

With the rise in numbers of people experiencing homelessness in our cities, towns and
regions, public libraries are seeing an increase in visits from members of this community …

Drawing on cultural capital theory, this study investigates the activities of the National
Taiwan Library (NTL) to understand how public libraries promote social inclusion by …

As knowledge workers, library staff are assumed to be highly autonomous, meaning that
they are in control of how work is done. Yet, this work is heavily influenced by the …

This study sought to explore if and how shelters and other temporary housing providers
receive library services from their local public libraries and to measure their satisfaction with …