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A health education outreach partnership between an academic medical library and public library: lessons learned before and during a pandemic. [PDF]

J Med Libr Assoc, 2022
Background: Public libraries serve as community centers for accessing free, trustworthy health information. As such, they provide an ideal setting to teach the local community about health and health literacy, particularly during public health crises ...
Swanberg SM, Bulgarelli N, Jayakumar M, Look E, Shubitowski TB, Wedemeyer R, Yuen EW, Lucia VC.   +7 more
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Public Library-Based Social Work Field Placements: Guidance for Public Libraries Planning to Become a Social Work Practicum Site

Public Library Quarterly, 2022
Public libraries are increasingly faced with patron psychosocial needs, including mental health problems, substance use, homelessness, or poverty-related needs.
E. Wahler, J. Ressler, Sarah C. Johnson, Colleen Rortvedt, Tasha Saecker, J. Helling, Michael A. Williams, Danielle Hoover   +7 more
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Retooling the public library as social infrastructure: a Dutch illustration

Social & Cultural Geography, 2021
Public libraries are more than information providers; they increasingly serve as key social infrastructures. Financial pressures, decreasing membership and digitalisation require libraries to reinvent themselves as primarily spaces of an encounter.
Rianne van Melik, M. Merry
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The Jewish Public Library

Canadian Jewish Studies, 2014
Irving Layton
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Science in Libraries

Библиосфера, 2022
The discussion reflects the points of view of doctors of sciences from the Russian State Library, the Russian National Library, the Saint-Peterburg State Institute of Culture and the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of the Siberian Branch of
A. Yu. Samarin, E. A. Pleshkevich, N. K. Lelikova, M. Ya. Dvorkina, G. V. Varganova, O. I. Lavrik   +5 more
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THE PUBLIC LIBRARY [PDF]

Religious Education, 1918
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openaire   +3 more sources

Evolution of an academic-public library partnership. [PDF]

J Med Libr Assoc, 2016
A partnership to improve access to health information via an urban public library system was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2011. A multiyear project was outlined that included an information needs assessment, a training class for public library ...
Engeszer RJ, Olmstadt W, Daley J, Norfolk M, Krekeler K, Rogers M, Colditz G, Anwuri VV, Morris S, Voorhees M, McDonald B, Bernstein J, Schoening P, Williams L.   +13 more
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Diverse Populations in Saskatchewan: The Challenges of Reaching Them

Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2010
Saskatchewan is more diverse than it was even 5 years ago. Although historically Saskatchewan has always had a diverse immigrant population with new immigrants coming from many European and Eastern European countries, recently there are large immigrant ...
Maha Kumaran, Lorraine Salt
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Scientific Bibliography in the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Stages of Development, Modern Realities and Prospects

Библиосфера, 2023
The article objective is to show the bibliographic activity development on information research support in the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPSTL SB RAS).
T. V. Busygina, L. A. Mandrinina, V. V. Rykova, N. A. Balutkina   +3 more
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Building Our Future: The Public Library Leadership Fellows Program

Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2012
As the 21st Century unfolds, public libraries and their leaders will face unique issues that warrant focused thought, research, discussion and visioning.
Lita Barrie, Rebecca Raven
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