Offers a critical assessment of the need for HIV-AIDS information and education and considers how librarians can best respond to those needs. The book discusses co-operative approaches that libraries can undertake with other organizations and suggests models for HIV-AIDS services and programmes.
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From Library Journal
Picture this: a mild-mannered librarian sitting behind a reference desk at a local public library discussing safer sex techniques and dispensing AIDS information. This may be the last image one would have of an AIDS/HIV information provider, but Lukenbill tries hard to make a case for libraries as providers of HIV/AIDS information. He cites examples of libraries already doing such. Yet, the natural link between libraries and AIDS informaton is not really there. HIV/AIDs is not like geography. There are nagging questions of an adequately trained staff comfortable with discussing delicate and explicit matters, of the accuracy and completeness of the information, and of librarians providing medical information in general. Special libraries like Philadelphia's AIDS Information Network have staff trained to do all of that, but such institutions function more as special agencies. The cooperative role Lukenbill outlines may be the right balance (between doing nothing and handing out condoms). Libraries that cooperate with local AIDS service agencies and act as referral points will play an important role in the fight against AIDS. The day when one can walk into the local public library and discuss modes of sexual transmission is, perhaps sadly, not here yet. Recommended for library schools and libraries contemplating providing AIDS/HIV resources.
Lee Arnold, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Lee Arnold, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Luckenbill discusses the background of the AIDS crisis and describes types of information about HIV and AIDS as well as their audiences. He makes a good case for libraries becoming information providers in this area. Although the book reads more like a library science textbook than a useful practitioners' tool, Luckenbill brings together much useful information gathered from successful HIV and AIDS programs in libraries of all types--childrens', high-school, branch public library, community information centers, etc. His discussions of interagency communication and marketing of services will help librarians who are beginning or expanding such services. Further, because the table of contents is so detailed, readers can quickly turn to the sections most useful to them and ignore or read at their convenience such other aspects of the book as its consideration of academic communication models. Charles Harmon
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