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Social inclusion and libraries - a resource guide
Subject: Social inclusion and libraries - a resource guide
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Social inclusion and libraries
a resource guide
Introduction
Using this site
News
Background Reading
Cabinet Office Social Exclusion Unit Web Site
Research reports
LIC Policy
Open for All?
The Network Society
National Policy initiatives
European action
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Social Exclusion Action Planning Network
Training and Development
References
Introduction
This new resource is intended for all public library professionals,
particularly those whose role is to put policy into practice. It aims
to provide an easy way in to recent publications, research and
networked resources about social inclusion that might be relevant to
public libraries.
A policy dimension
Since the election of the New Labour government in 1997, social
inclusion has been one of the key concepts underpinning many of its
actions. One of the first was the establishment of the Social
Exclusion Unit (SEU) within the Cabinet Office, which has set about a
programme aimed at dealing with the problems of poor and isolated
communities. The SEU website contains up to date information about its
work: there is no mailing list so it may need to be checked regularly.
Social inclusion?
So what is `social inclusion'? The problem of definition was tackled
in the Department for Media Culture and Sport (DCMS) report Libraries
for all : social inclusion in public libraries. The Library and
Information Commission (LIC) published, just before its demise,
Libraries: the essence of inclusion, and gave a definition showing the
variety, complexity and subjectivity of social inclusion.
LIC, under its own research strategy, commissioned a core policy
research project, published as Open for All? The Public Library and
Social Inclusion. This is a start point for any reading on the issues.
The project report deals with the problems of definition (the
differences between social exclusion inclusion and cohesion). Its
reading list appears with additions and amendments here. A summary of
the report appears here.
Other reports talk of the `digital divide' and `digital exclusion' -
that is being unable to take part in the benefits of the `Network
Society'. Another way of looking at exclusion is by its defining
characteristics - the habit of non-participation, the habit of
isolation and a perceived lack of opportunity and choice. In Scotland
the talk is of `social justice'.
Last updated: Friday, 24 August, 2001
Compiled by Research and Innovation Services on behalf of the
Community Services Group of The Library Association
in conjunction with the Community Development Foundation
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