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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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