Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781440834325)

Practical advice on how best to serve veterans, service members, and their families in your community, including effective ways to develop new outreach partnerships and collaborations.

Whether you work in a public library, an academic library, a school library, or any other type of library, you are likely to encounter members of the veteran and military communities. This book is a starting point to help librarians, library administrators, and all library employees understand how veterans, service members, and their families can be different from other patrons, recognize important elements of military and veteran culture, and identify strategies for effectively serving the veteran and military communities.

In this book, you find tips to help you determine the size and the needs of the veteran and military communities in your local area. You'll learn about some common information requests and information-seeking behavior of veterans and service members. You'll discover how to take the needs and also the unique strengths of the veteran and military communities into account when developing library outreach efforts, programs, services, and collections. And you'll gain insights to help you harness the knowledge, strengths, and experiences of the veteran and military communities in order to help them fulfill their potential as an asset to the library and to the community.

Author: Sarah Lemire, Kristen J. Mulvihill
ISBN-10: 1440834326
ISBN-13: 9781440834325
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2017
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Voice of Youth Advocates 06/01/2017
Library Journal 08/01/2017