Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2024-2025, Part 6
This month ACLA Community Support Services is highlighting the work of our featured Fellows, Ariana and Jillian. Ariana has spent the 2024/2025 school year serving the patrons of Carnegie Free Library of Swissvale. Her most recent project, a 5 session Mindfulness and Coping workshop will explore creative ways to implement mindfulness practices and elicit more […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2024-2025, Part 5
ACLA Community Support Services is pleased to introduce this month’s featured Fellows, Betty, Olivia, and Sydney. Betty can usually be found in the graphic novels section of CLP Main where she has been providing caring support and practical assistance to patrons since September. Olivia is a newer addition to CLP’s Squirrel Hill branch. When not […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2024-2025, Part 4
This month ACLA Community Support Services recognizes Sam, Tamyah, and Devontae. Each of these Fellows is serving the community at a different branch of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. You can find Devontae at the Downtown and Business Library branch, Tamyah in the Hill District, and Sam in Knoxville. All three students are finishing BASW degrees […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2024-2025, Part 3
As 2024 comes to an end, we are just reaching the halfway point for our Social Work in Libraries Fellowship. This year students have been incredibly active throughout the county, participating in community food distributions, establishing new pantries, designing after-school tutoring programs, launching support groups, and more. We couldn’t be more thrilled with their efforts […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2024-2025, Part 2
This month ACLA Community Support Services is thankful for our amazing Social Work in Libraries Fellowship! Since the fall semester began in September, our Fellows have logged nearly 1000 patron interactions. Helping our neighbors find and access affordable housing continues to be a top concern, with employment, education, food security, and medical needs following just […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2024-2025, Part 1
Between summer and fall, ACLA Community Support Services has welcomed its largest cohort ever to the Social Work in Libraries Fellowship, with 20 social work students and 1 student specializing in both library science and social work! This summer, fellows engaged in research and planning toward long-term education and food security projects, organized a highly […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2023-2024, Part 3
As we reflect on the joys and challenges of 2023 and move forward into a new year brimming with promise, I am so inspired by the work of our Library Social Work Fellows. Each of the students featured below has been passionately dedicated to serving our communities this year. Throughout the county, at libraries big […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2023-2024, Part 2
It’s been a busy time for our Fellows! Megan has been promoting community health in Homestead; most recently by offering personal wellness groups for adults and hosting a special story time event encouraging our smallest patrons to take good care of their teeth! Selina assisted CLP East Liberty toward their goal of being a welcoming […]
Spotlight on Social Work Student Fellows 2023-2024, Part 1
ACLA’s Social Work in Libraries Program has grown by leaps and bounds this year. We’ve expanded our reach from seven communities to eleven, and our Fellows have been hard at work. From September through December they logged a combined total of 400 individual patron interactions, and an additional 444 interactions related to group programming and […]
Whole Person Librarianship: A National Movement
Whole Person Librarianship is an approach drawing from social work concepts, such as cultural humility and person-in-environment, to help librarians become more confident in learning from, interacting with, and serving diverse patrons. Sara Zettervall, MLIS, and Mary Nienow, MSW, started the movement in 2012, and since then dozens of libraries across the country have integrated […]
