It Takes a Village – How Public Libraries Collaborate with Community Agencies to Serve People Who Are Homeless in the United States
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BOLT, Nancy (2015) It Takes a Village – How Public Libraries Collaborate with Community Agencies to Serve People Who Are Homeless in the United States. Paper presented at: IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South Africa in Session 100 - Library Service for People with Special Needs with Public Libraries.
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It Takes a Village – How Public Libraries Collaborate with Community Agencies to Serve People Who Are Homeless in the United States
This paper will cover the following: the status of homelessness in the United States; why people become homeless; how people experience homelessness; and the role of libraries in serving people who are homeless. At the conclusion of the article, there is a bibliography on recent articles on public library service to people who are homeless in the United States.Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) | ||||||
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Conference details: | IFLA WLIC 2015 - Cape Town, South AfricaSession 100 - Library Service to the Socially Isolated: Homeless Incarcerated and Mental Disorders - Library Service for People with Special Needs with Public Libraries |
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Divisions: | Division 1 Library Types > Public Libraries Section Division 3 Library Services > Library Services to People with Special Needs Section |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Homelessness, libraries and homelessness, United States and homelessness | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 05 Aug 2015 10:21 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2017 08:56 | ||||||
URI: | https://library.ifla.org/id/eprint/1260 |
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