IU research team, Dr. Ayoung Yoon (Luddy Indy) and Dr. Michin Hong (School of Social Work), received a new three-year IMLS grant of $498,000, titled Developing a Social Service Model in Rural Libraries.
They plan to develop a social service prototype for rural libraries based on multistep studies to explore rural communities’ social needs and libraries’ current practices. This project will provide a new way of serving rural communities for social work practitioners and for library information science education by broadening the role of library and information professionals in social services, identifying the skills and knowledge to perform this new role.
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