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Reaching Out to Vulnerable Groups in China: a broad library with social inclusion

Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province, 213 Wenming Road, Guangzhou 510110, China, zhaochun{at}zslib.com.cn

Huang Qunqing

Sun Yat-sen Library of Guangdong Province, 213 Wenming Road, Guangzhou 510110, China, qunqing{at}zslib.com.cn

In developing China, groups of people are facing social exclusion. They are citizens unemployed or with ill health, laborers with poor skills, teenagers in prisons, residents suffering a disaster, and peasants in remote country-side. Library service is crucial for these vulnerable groups. The Sun Yat-sen Library has been active in providing services to these vulnerable groups, creating 56 branch libraries countrywide. The paper describes innovative services provided to residents of a special community for families with financial difficulties, to prisoners — especially juveniles and prisoner students — to a library devastated by flooding, and to two remote mountain communities in Tibet.

Key Words: Public libraries • social inclusion • disadvantaged groups • prison libraries • children's libraries • flood damage • Guangdong • Tibet • China

IFLA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 1, 13-19 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0340035208088572


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