Why should the Library be a community center? Who approves this kind of funding? Why is the government hiring social workers in and outside of the library? Sounds like at least one org is accomplishing its mission.
Why should the Library be a community center? Who approves this kind of funding? Why is the government hiring social workers in and outside of the library? Sounds like at least one org is accomplishing its mission.
This тАЬcommunityтАЭ is already a lot of things, some good some bad, but can it please not become anti-library or anti-social worker? That plays right into the criticisms everyone already has of the heterodox left.
I'm not anti library...I may be anti social worker, as far as I have been able to tell they are mostly ineffective busy bodies. However, that's not the point I was making. I'm anti wasting money. And having Library social workers overseen by the Library (Which can't seem to even manage its own affairs let alone social workers) and Health and Human Services Social Workers seems like a waste and potentially hard to manage both.
I think the idea is that not everyone is going to want to go to a social work office or community center who might need those services. And some places donтАЩt have a community center, but almost everyone knows that a library is a safe place in their community they can go during the day. If someone comes in who might need help having a social worker there to offer them services is useful and could actually save money vs also building a community center.
Of course this will only really happen in communities of a certain size. ItтАЩs not like every library needs an on-staff social worker.
I donтАЩt care if social workers operate out of a library. Have your office at Home Depot. My point is, this seems like its own separate department and management structure.
Why should the Library be a community center? Who approves this kind of funding? Why is the government hiring social workers in and outside of the library? Sounds like at least one org is accomplishing its mission.
I agree with you. I really like libraries but I don't like that they become a de-facto community centre in the absence of proper public services.
This тАЬcommunityтАЭ is already a lot of things, some good some bad, but can it please not become anti-library or anti-social worker? That plays right into the criticisms everyone already has of the heterodox left.
It sounds like these homeless people and social workers are the ones trying to make it less of a library.
I'm not anti library...I may be anti social worker, as far as I have been able to tell they are mostly ineffective busy bodies. However, that's not the point I was making. I'm anti wasting money. And having Library social workers overseen by the Library (Which can't seem to even manage its own affairs let alone social workers) and Health and Human Services Social Workers seems like a waste and potentially hard to manage both.
I think the idea is that not everyone is going to want to go to a social work office or community center who might need those services. And some places donтАЩt have a community center, but almost everyone knows that a library is a safe place in their community they can go during the day. If someone comes in who might need help having a social worker there to offer them services is useful and could actually save money vs also building a community center.
Of course this will only really happen in communities of a certain size. ItтАЩs not like every library needs an on-staff social worker.
I donтАЩt care if social workers operate out of a library. Have your office at Home Depot. My point is, this seems like its own separate department and management structure.