Inspiring Examples and News
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Wisconsin News
- Kenosha Public Library
- La Crosse Public Library
- Oshkosh Public Library
- Oshkosh Library staff to get social work training as part of the CLC ARPA Grant (2022 Feb)
- Comfort Cabinet
- How the Comfort Closet came to be at the Oshkosh Public Library (2022 May, article)
- How the Comfort Closet came to be at the Oshkosh Public Library (2022, May, video)
- Comfort Cupboard lends a helping hand to those in need (2022 June)
- Racine Public Library
- Students, faculty, and alumna present on social work practices in libraries at national conference (2022 Oct)
- Litigants need help? Send them to the library (really)! (2022 Apr, podcast)
- Racine Public Library: All-Ages Sensory Room, Social Services Offered (2022 Feb)
- Racine & Me: Racine Library Adds Social Worker (2021 Nov)
- Now you can get help from a social worker at the Racine Public Library (2021 Nov, video)
- Racine library adds social worker (2021 Oct, video)
- Journal Times editorial: ‘Libraries are in the human business:’ Social workers in libraries is a good model (2021 Oct)
- Wisconsin public library adds part-time social worker (2019 Sept)
Inspiring Examples from Elsewhere
- Indianapolis Public Library: Why your local library might be hiring a social worker (2022 Jan)
- DC Public Library
- Pioneering a New Approach to Serving Customers without Homes (2014 Oct)
- Social Workers DC Public Library (2019 Jan, podcast)
- Denver Public Library
- Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD: Social Worker in the Library Initiative
- Greater Victoria Public Library, BC, Canada: Libraries are open to all, but are library staff equipped to help everyone who comes through the doors? (2022 May)
- Long Branch Free Public Library, Long Branch, NJ: Social Work Office
- Public Library Association: Social Work Interest Group
- Social Work Students & Public Libraries (librarian blog)