Social Exclusion Framework for Service. A Librarian at the Kitchen Table. No. 437.

John Gehner, Coordinator
Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force (HHPTF)
has written this post at the Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force site:

As our poverty task force has documented, U.S. libraries have been slow to adopt the social-exclusion framework for public service. See, for example, the "Open to All?" research.

Librarians who are seeking community-building models can benefit tremendously from projects launched in Great Britain and Canada. Through national campaigns, these countries promote relationships between library staff and traditionally excluded groups. The resulting collaborations create more useful programs and services and more cohesive communities.

Here are two new sites and two informative articles worth your time:

Canada's Working Together Project

Great Britain's Welcome to Your Library project

John Pateman
"Tackling Social Exclusion in Libraries" (2005) [pdf]
http://www.librarianactivist.org/socexclusion.pdf

Annette DeFaveri
"Breaking Barriers: Libraries and Socially Excluded Communities" (2005)
[pdf] http://libr.org/isc/articles/21/9.pdf

For more background on these and other resources, visit the Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force (HHPTF)website.
http://www.hhptf.org

John Gehner, Coordinator
Hunger, Homelessness & Poverty Task Force (HHPTF)
Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT)
of the American Library Association (ALA)
jgehner@hhptf.org
http://www.hhptf.org
http://www.libr.org/srrt



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