Saturday, February 27, 2016

Community Building-10 Years Ago in RUSQ.




It has been ten years since the Reference and User Services Quarterly ended the "Community Building" column. Some important topics to remember.

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Volume 40, Number 1
“Librarians and Comprehensive Community Initiatives”
Kathleen de la Peña McCook

Volume 40, Number 2
“Service Integration and Libraries: Will 2-1-1 be the Catalyst for Renewal?”
 McCook

Volume 40, Number 3
“Community Building and Latino Families”
Marcela Villagrán, Guest Columnist

Volume 40, Number 4
“Community Indicators, Genuine Progress, and the Gold Billion”
 McCook and Kristen Brand, Guest Columnist


Volume 41, Number 1
“Collaboration Generates Synergy: Saint Paul Public Library, the College of St. Catherine, and the ‘Family Place’ Program”
Carol P. Johnson, Ginny Brodeen, Helen Humeston,
and Rebecca McGee, Guest Columnists

Volume 41, Number 2
“Authentic Discourse as a Means of Connection Between Public Library Services Responses and Community Building Initiatives”
 McCook

Volume 41, Number 3
“Service to Day Laborers: A Job Libraries Have Left Undone”
Bruce Jensen, Guest Columnist

Volume 41, Number 4
“Cultural Heritage Institutions and Community Building”
 McCook and Marla A. Jones, Guest Columnist


Volume 42, Number 1
“The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center
of the Broward County Library”
Henrietta M. Smith, Guest Columnist

Volume 42, Number 2
“Alaska Resources Library and Information Services: Building Community in the Forty-Ninth State”
Juli Braund-Allen and Daria O. Carle, Guest Columnists

Volume 42, Number 3
“Sustainable Communities and the Roles Libraries and Librarians Play”
Frederick W. Stoss, Guest Columnist

Volume 42, Number 4
“Using a Homeless Shelter as a Library Education Learning Laboratory: Incorporating Service-Learning in a Graduate-Level Information Sources and Services in the Social Sciences Course”
Lorna Peterson, Guest Columnist


Volume 43, Number 1
“Suppressing the Commons: Misconstrued Patriotism vs. a Psychology of Liberation”
 McCook

Volume 43, Number 2
“Transformations of Librarianship in Support of Learning Communities”
Eino Sierppe, Guest Columnist

Volume 43, Number 3
“A Passion for Connection: Community Colleges Fulfill the Promise
of Cultural Institutions”
Carmine J. Bell, Guest Columnist

Volume 43, Number 4
“Community, Identity, and Literature”
Elaine Yontz, Guest Columnist


Volume 44, Number 1
“Public Libraries and People in Jail”
 McCook

Volume 44, Number 2
“A Digital Library to Serve a Region: The Bioregion and First Nations Collections of the Southern Oregon Digital Archives”
Mary Jane Cedar Face and Deborah Hollens, Guest Columnists

Volume 44, Number 3
“The Homeless and Information Needs and Services”
Julie Hersberger, Guest Columnist

Volume 44, Number 4
“Building Lead-Free Communities”
Frederick W. Stoss, Guest Columnist


Volume 45, Number 1
“Human Rights and Librarians”
 McCook and Katherine J. Phenix, Guest Columnist

Volume 45, Number 2
“Poverty, Poor People, and Our Priorities”
John Gehner, Guest Columnist

Sunday, February 21, 2016

Loss of a Library-Venice, Florida



The Venice, FL branch of the Sarasota Public Library has been closed. It was deemed a public health concern.   The next closest library is just over five miles away--a huge hindrance to people who rely on public transportation. The community is much poorer for the lack of this library and the fact that it has been weeks and probably will be months before a temporary location is found and years before a permanent location is established just hurts my heart.  The Sarasota County Government  (Links to an external site.)
 website has a lot of information.
 This video is a little long, and there are a lot of emotions running high, but I advise anyone who thinks that libraries will be obsolete or have little importance for the future at least skip around in this video a little.  There are lots of people who are very passionate about their library.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLSZMMAUTI (Links to an external site.)
"Pages - Venice Library Update." Pages - Venice Library Update. Web. 19 Feb. 2016.

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Routledge Human Rights collection-Until 3.31.2016


Routledge Human Rights collection. Here you will find over 100 research articles divided between sections inspired by the two International Covenants on Human Rights: the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
This collection will be running until 31st March 2016. Browse it today, and don’t forget to bookmark the page.

Friday, February 5, 2016

Loss of Libraries= Inequality-Mary O'Hara

loss of libraries=inequality

The loss of libraries is another surefire way to entrench inequality



 The UK’s library service has for decades been one of its great, tangible symbols of social justice and has adapted admirably to changing demand. It is something we should all stand up for, whether we use what’s on offer or not. I still have my first library card. What have we become if in the years ahead far fewer people are able to say the same thing?