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ALSC sets standards for library services to children through regular updates to its "Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries." The most recent competencies which was adopted in 2015, emphasized seven core areas of competence, including; services, programs, outreach, collection development, and administrative practices. [2]
In 2015, the findings of a two-year evaluation report into the Reading Well Books on Prescription scheme were published; it claimed that there had been a 97% increase in UK library loans of mental health self-help books, and a 346% increase in the number of books for people with dementia borrowed from libraries in England. [11]
It is the official journal of the Association of Library Service to Children, and a journal of American Library Association. [1] The journal was established in 2003 and succeeds the Journal of Youth Services (formerly Top of the News), which was published until 2002 in collaboration with the Young Adult Library Services Association.
The room is available by appointment during library business hours. [5] The Winter Haven Public Library began construction for a Sensory Garden and Discovery Space in 2023. The garden is designed for the “well-being, learning, and coping needs of children and adults with autism, sensory impairments, Alzheimer’s, and dementia”. [6]
Library, Mercy University Hospital; Dementia Services Library, St James's Hospital, Rialto; Health Library Ireland (Leabharlann Sláinte na hÉireann) (Health Library Ireland at the Health Service Executive, Dr Steeven’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland incorporates libraries located in hospitals across Ireland and an e-library). [3] [4] Adult ...
Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956) Wiegand, Wayne A. Main Street Public Library: Community Places and Reading Spaces in the Rural Heartland, 1876–1956 (University of Iowa Press, 2011) Wiegand, Wayne A. A Part of Our Lives: A History of the American Public Library (Oxford University press, 2015).
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
Lillian Helena Smith (17 March 1887 — 5 January 1983) was the first British Empire children's librarian. Over the course of her career, Smith established library spaces and services for children within the Toronto Public Library, Toronto schools, and at the Hospital for Sick Children.