As you all know, we've been talking about Whole Person Librarianship and the relationship between social work and library work for a good year now. We've visited area social service agencies, attended WPL training online, and taken opinion surveys about the role of the public library in this type of work. This morning we received word that we'll have Savannah Bezotte, a social work student from Carthage, doing her field placement project at Simmons and Uptown for the coming semester. Savannah is here to learn as well as teach us the most effective ways to refer people to the social service help they need. We'll bring her around when she arrives so you have the opportunity to meet her.
If you're interested in learning more about social workers in libraries and Whole Person Librarianship in general, our City Library Collective has created a new website to provide public libraries with a "toolkit" that includes background and sample projects from the 11 mid-size Wisconsin libraries involved in this Resilience Project. The website is under construction, so it's constantly being updated , but there's already good stuff there.
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