Libraries’ Role in Public Health

Libraries have long been trusted sources for reliable health information. In recent years, partnerships with public health nurses and social workers have brought preventative healthcare and behavioral health referrals into the library, along with connections to fresh food and exercise programming. Learn how recent innovations are going even further, addressing mental health—even loaning lamps to […]

Library Journal Panel Discussion: Supporting Staff

In the wake of COVID-driven shakeups, much of the U.S. workforce is reevaluating what they need and want from work, and library staff are no exception. Increasingly library workers are sharing their trauma, burnout, and low morale on-the-job experiences and asking for more and different policies and support structures from their libraries to support their […]