This study highlighted the gap between rural communities’ psychosocial needs and libraries’ responses, based on mixed-method findings from a large interprofessional collaboration between social work and library sciences. The results provide important implications for social work practice and education in the emerging field of library social work.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
Participants will be able to identify key challenges in addressing the psychosocial needs of rural communities.
Participants will be able to recognize the increasing need for interprofessional collaboration between social work and libraries.
Participants will be able to describe the role of library social work in supporting the psychosocial needs of rural communities.
