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Reflection Blog: The Library can’t Be Everything – but it can Connect Everyone
In his article Healthy Library, Healthy Life, Cory Greenwood of State Library Victoria introduces a toolkit which helps libraries to identify the most urgent needs of their communities and their own institutional skills gaps (2023). This toolkit serves as a catalyst for building and fostering partnerships to bridge the gap and connect library users with wellbeing organizations. This is referred to as addressing the “whole person”. That is, creating a holistic, hyperlinked system of care, always with humans at the center, to address all of the factors that go into their well-being: housing, transportation, social isolation, health and mental health care, food security, and more. Libraries, first and foremost, support…