Serving Those Who Served: Librarian's Guide to Working with Veteran and Military Communities

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Library & Information Services

• Author: Sarah LeMire, Kristen J. Mulvihill
• ISBN: 9781440834332
• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Publication: February 6, 2017
• Imprint: Libraries Unlimited
• Language: English

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.

• The first guidebook of its kind, intended to support librarians, administrators, and library employees of all types better serve the veteran and military communities

• Presents insights from authors who are both Army veterans as well as professional librarians engaged in working with the veteran and military communities in libraries

• Explains how to estimate the number of veterans, service members, and their families in your library community and provides an overview of the types of issues and questions they may have

• Provides recommendations to help librarians coordinate their efforts with existing military and veterans' organizations in order to provide the best, most efficient programs and services for veterans, service members, and their families

• Offers concrete ideas and suggestions related to outreach, programming, services, and collection development for the veteran and military communities