... encourages libraries to advocate for community services for these populations (ALA, 1990). In 1996, members of the Social Responsibilities Roundtable (part of ALA) formed the Hunger, Homelessness and Poverty Task Force to promote and implement Policy 61 and to raise awareness of poverty issues...

... to the furtherance of social betterment, with particular reference to the situation in South Africa in the post‐apartheid era. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Public libraries Social inclusion Social responsibility Government policy South Africa Libraries are … essential...

... the search for new knowledge through adequate methods and theories. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Public libraries Information systems Social responsibility This paper examines the relations hips between the current situation in our societies, the role of the libraries and how education...

... it is only when we have a new breed of worker‐peasant‐based “barefoot” librarians that the profession will start to address the fundamental issues of inequality in the information field. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Equity Information Kenya Social responsibility The wealth of a nation...

... history and eventual preservation as well as the contents of the archive. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Archives Child care Fund‐raising Photograph Social responsibility United Kingdom Doctor Thomas John Barnardo (1845‐1905) founded his first home for destitute children in the East End...