Social work interns open for business!

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Even during the current pandemic, social work library interns continue to provide services remotely to patrons in need. View links below learn about the work students are doing, such as providing information on employment, ways to cope with stress and anxiety, and offering emotional support to patrons:

Forest Park Public Library (IL), Elmhurst Public Library (IL), Northlake Public Library (IL), Baldwin Library (NY), Jacksonville Public Library (IL), Center Moriches Public Library (NY)

Source: https://www.fppl.org/2020/04/01/virtualsocialwork/

Welcome!

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This website is featured in Sara Zettervall and Mary Nienow’s new book Whole Person Librarianship in which they dedicate a full chapter (#3) to social work student placements. You can access resources they provide here.

The aim of this site is to raise awareness about social work student/public library partnerships currently taking place throughout North America and the need for such collaborations to increase in order to better meet the needs of library patrons.

Celebrating interns
Two MSW interns from Southern Illinois University wrap up their placements at Carbondale Public Library (IL).

 

If you know of an existing collaboration between schools of social work and public libraries, or you would like your own school or library featured here, please contact me.

“Having the services of a social work student available to our patrons is an example of how libraries are changing and expanding services” – Cindy Mangel, Bound Brook Library branch manager (Somerset County, NJ).

Source

Carbondale Public Library. (2019, May 8). Facebook post. Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/TheCarbondalePublicLibrary/photos/pcb.2441735252503801/2441731819170811/?type=3&theater

TapInto Staff. (2018, January 28). Rutgers Social Worker Provides Assistance at Somerville Library. Retrieved from https://www.tapinto.net/towns/somerville/articles/rutgers-social-worker-provides-assistance-at-some

Zettervall, S. K., & Nienow, M. C. (2019). Whole person librarianship: A social work approach to patron services. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.