Study Guide

Objective

After the course, the student is able to tell the meaning of outreaching services in a library work. S/he is able to separate different patron groups in outreaching work. The student is able to use different working methods in planning and implementing library services to different patron groups. The student can analyze special characteristics of mobile library, institutional libraries and home delivery services

Content

- reaching and meeting new patron groups
- co-operation with local, regional organizations and other partners
- domiciliary and institutional services
- home delivery service
- mobile library service
- illustrations of projects and experiments (e.g. pop-up libraries)
- international guidelines of outreaching library services
- evaluation of the effectiveness of outreaching library services

Qualifications

No prerequisites.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Satisfactory (1-2)
The student has completed all the course tasks but hasn't always followed the timetables or instructions. S/he is able to tell the most important tasks and customer groups of the outreaching library services in a public library. S/he is able to tell the most important partners in co-operation and what kind of co-operation is done.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3-4)
The student has completed all the course tasks according to the timetables and instructions. The student is able to analyse the tasks of outreaching library services in a public library. The student is able to identify the important organizations of co-operation and s/he is able to tell what kind of co-operation is done. S/he is able to tell some new possibilities of co-operation.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5)
The student has completed all the course tasks according to the timetables and instructions. The student is able to tell a diversified analysis of the tasks and the future of outreaching library services in a public library and also as a part of society. The student is able to identify the important organizations of co-operation and s/he is able to tell what kind of co-operation is done. S/he is able to tell some new possibilities of co-operation.

Materials

Guidelines for libraries serving hospital patients and the elderly and disabled in long-term care facilities. International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions IFLA Professional Reports, Nr. 61/2000.

Librarians as community partners: an outreach handbook. Edited by Carol Smallwood. American library Association 2010.

Mobile Library Guidelines. IFLA Professional Report No. 123 / 2010.

Other materials to be announced at the beginning of the course.