Intersecting disciplines: Should LIS competencies include social work?

Chancellor, Renate; Crooks, Shannon

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Title

Intersecting disciplines: Should LIS competencies include social work?

Author(s)

Chancellor, Renate
Crooks, Shannon

Issue Date

2024-10-16

Keyword(s)

community engagement
curriculum
pedagogy
information seeking
education programs
LIS curriculum
public libraries
social work
assets based theory
information seeking behavior

Abstract

Social work in librarianship is a phenomenon that has gained momentum in public libraries since the first known social worker began working at the San Francisco Public Library in 2009. Few LIS programs offer courses to address this evolving phenomenon, yet librarians and library staff nationwide have expressed the need to have training in social work to help them meet the needs of their users. To date, there are only three universities (Dominican University, University of Michigan and Middle Tennessee State University) that offer dual degree programs and even fewer universities that offer social work librarianship courses. With the concern of librarians not feeling equipped to address the social needs of library users (eg. depression, anxiety, suicide, health issues, substance abuse, poverty) this paper emphasizes the critical need for LIS programs to adapt their curriculum to adequately prepare future librarians for public librarianship.

Publisher

Association for Library and Information Science Education

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2024

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper
Presentation

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/130758

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2024.1649

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Copyright 2024 Renate Chancellor, Shannon Crooks.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference: ALISE 2024 PRIMARY

The Ethics and Evolution of Truth and Information