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Public Law Libraries as Community Self Care

Friday, October 18, 2024
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
Room/Location: 212/214

  • Amreet Sandhu

    Librarian
    Sacramento County Public Law Library
    Sacramento, CA

  • Aaron Dahlstedt

    Librarian
    Sacramento Public Library
    Sacramento, CA

  • Pauline Afuso

    Public Services Librarian
    Alameda County Law Library
    Oakland, CA

  • Selena Lee

    Reference and Catalog Librarian
    Law Library for San Bernardino County
    San Bernardino, CA

Libraries provide greatest public benefit when they impact those beyond library users. Public law libraries are an example of that. When a member of the public is able to access legal information otherwise unavailable to them, be they a tenant or landlord, a small business owner or employee, a contractor or consumer, a person seeking to enter or exit a marriage, someone contesting a citation or an inmate, all communities connected to the person facing a legal issues benefit from the issue being resolved. Law libraries make this access to justice possible.

Some of questions addressed by this panel will be:
• What is community resilience?
• What differences exist between the reference interview in public v law libraries?
• Self-care: What do emotional boundaries look and sound like in a public law library?
• Shelf-care: What resources are available at law libraries?