Reaching Out to Vulnerable Groups in China: a broad library with social inclusion  

Oleh:

Li, Zhaochun ; Huang, Qunqing

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: IFLA Journal vol. 34 no. 1 (Mar. 2008), page 13-19.
Topik: Public libraries; social inclusion; disadvantaged groups; prison libraries; children’s libraries; flood damage; Guangdong; Tibet; China
Fulltext: 13IFLA341.pdf (496.22KB)

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In developing China, groups of people are facing social exclusion. They are citizens unemployed or with ill health, laborers with poor skills, teenagers in prisons, residents suffering a disaster, and peasants in remote country-side. Library service is crucial for these vulnerable groups. The Sun Yat-sen Library has been active in providing services to these vulnerable groups, creating 56 branch libraries countrywide. The paper describes innovative services provided to residents of a special community for families with fi nancial diffi culties, to prisoners – especially juveniles and prisoner students – to a library devastated by fl ooding, and to two remote mountain communities in Tibet.

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