[Libs-Or] Library Patrons' Psychosocial Needs: How Social Work Collaborations Can Help (Free Presentation)

[Max Macias]

[FYI]

This presentation will focus on the growing psychosocial needs of library
patrons, such as needs related to mental health, substance use, and
poverty, reasons for this shift in patrons' needs, and how these needs
affect libraries and library staff. The role of the public library social
worker will be discussed, including examples of social work and public
library collaborations in smaller or rural libraries.

Library Patrons' Psychosocial Needs: How Social Work Collaborations
Can HelpBETH
WAHLER, UNC CHARLOTTEMAY 4TH, 2:00 - 3:00

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*Talk Description:*

This presentation will focus on the growing psychosocial needs of library
patrons, such as needs related to mental health, substance use, and
poverty, reasons for this shift in patrons' needs, and how these needs
affect libraries and library staff. The role of the public library social
worker will be discussed, including examples of social work and public
library collaborations in smaller or rural libraries.

[image: Beth Wahler headshot]*About Beth Wahler:*

Beth Wahler, PhD, MSW, is the Director of the School of Social Work at UNC
Charlotte. Her main research interests involve helping public libraries
address the psychosocial needs of their patrons, and her work includes
conducting needs assessments, identifying strategies for improving
libraries' capacity to respond to patron needs, and piloting social work
practicum units or other social work collaborations. She has collaborated
with libraries across the country for this work, ranging from individual
libraries to regional or statewide library systems, and with urban,
suburban, and rural libraries.



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