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Social Work

Policy Last Updated: August 1, 2007

Subject: Social Work

Purpose

The Collection Development policy is used as a guide to shape relevant collections and to ensure consistency in collection development. The decision to purchase library materials is primarily the responsibility of the Collections Librarian in consultation with faculty in the Department.

This policy has been developed by Gina Matesic, the Collections Librarian, in cooperation with and endorsed by Martha Kuwee Kumsa, the Department Faculty Library Liaison and the Department Chair.

Focus

To support teaching, study and research up to the doctoral level, as well as to support faculty research.

Scope

  • Language: primary English language materials are collected; however, attention will also be given to relevant Canadian publications originating in French
  • Place of Publication: no area is excluded; internationally relevant and comparative materials are encouraged but the emphasis is place on Canadian and American publications, with U.K. and international publication in the second or third order of priority
  • Dates of Publication: emphasis is placed on recently published works
  • Chronological Period: both contemporary and historical works are to be acquired
  • Geographical Areas: no area is excluded; internationally relevant and comparative material is to be encouraged, whilst ensuring acquisition of relevant material on Canada
  • Publishers: works from scholarly and academic publishers is emphasized

Types, formats, and readership of materials collected

  • Materials with academic-level readership are selected
  • Web-based formats for reference sources, journals and indexing sources are preferred. Print and microform are considered for reason of cost, availability, expected use or long term access.
  • Single copies of books in print formats are generally selected. Web-based formats are selected on a title by title basis, especially if the title is of interest to users at multiple Laurier campuses. Duplication of print across Laurier campuses is generally avoided.
  • Excluded types include textbooks, abridgements, study aids, limited editions, works by vanity presses, juvenile literature, reprints and partial contents (eg. single issues of journals, electronic versions of single chapters of books).

Subjects collected and collecting priorities

Collecting priorities are categorized into 3 levels:

A - highest emphasis

The collection includes major published materials required to support the core teaching and research at the highest degree level offered by the Department.

B - secondary emphasis

The collection includes a selection of materials to complement the discipline as a whole, although it may not be a primary focus for courses.

C - selective emphasis

Materials, including reference materials and basic journals and indexes are collected to introduce and define an area.

Subjects collected

Classification

Collecting priority

Aboriginal Issues

  

Policy, History, Self-government

E91-E95; E78

A

Aging

  

Aging Process

QP86

C

Demographic Projections

HB849.53; HQ759.98; HB849.49

D

Home Care Provisions

RA645.3-RA645.37; HV1451

D

Institutionalization

HV1453

B

Policy

HQ1064

B

Elder Abuse

HV6626.3

B

Child Welfare

  

Alternate Care (Foster Care, Adoption, Group Homes, Institutions)

HV875-HV887; HV862-HV866

B

Child Protection, Prevention, Abuse & Policies

HV701-HV804

A

Child Development (Physical, Mental, Social)

HQ767.8-HQ792.2

D

Community Practice

  

Community Economic Development

HN90; HN49.C6

A

Social Economy

HB171

A

Civil Society

JC337

C

Community Capacity, Building & Mobilization

HN49

A

Community Policing

HV7936.C83

B

Social Movements & Planning

HT108; HN65

A

Social Citizenship

HN107; HN90

B

Practice Approaches

HV40

B

Family

  

Family Forms/Variations

HQ536

C

Children

HQ767.8-HQ767.9

C

Developmental Issues (Life Span/Cycle)

BF712 -BF724.92; HQ767.9; RJ506

C

Family Violence

HV6626-HV6626.23

B

Human Sexuality

HQ19-HQ21

B

Divorce & Single Parent Families

HQ811-HQ960; HQ759.915

B

Working Mothers

HQ759.48; HD6055

B

Income Maintenance/Social Assistance

  

Social Assistance, Welfare, Guaranteed Income Maintenance

HD7088-HD7096;

A

Employment & Labor Market

HD5724

B

Mental Health and Mental Illness

  

Incidence and Types of Mental Health Problems

RA790-RA790.05

D

Psychological Trauma

RC552

C

Psycho-social Treatments of Mental Health Issues

RC439; RC480

B

Individual and Community Approaches to Mental Illness

HV689-HV690

A

Consumer Rights

TX335

B

Social Work and Health ( Physical) Related Issues

HV687

A

Social Administration

  

Management of Social Service Organizations

HV108

B

Public and Social Policy/Development/Analysis/Implementation/Process

H97; H61

A

Nature of Social Service Organizations

HV40

A

Job Satisfaction (Burnout, Turnover)

HD5717;HV43

B

Social Change

  

Community Economic Development

HN49.C6;HT321

A

Socio-political Change

HM881

B

Anti-oppression; Racialization

HT1521;HM821

A

Constitutional Challenges

JF98

B

Social Issues

  

Substance Abuse

HV4997-HV5840

B

Crime

HV6251-HV6773.55

C

Disaster Relief

HV553-HV639

D

Housing

HF7291-HD7391

B

Delinquency

HV9069

C

Poverty

HC79;

A

Social Exclusion/Inclusion

HM1131-HM1136; HV40

B

Racism

HT1511-HT1595

A

Free Trade

HF1701; HV105

C

Development/Underdevelopment

HN980

C

Third World

HV525

D

Corrections and Imprisonment

HV8705

B

Sexual and Gender Diversity

HQ71-HQ270.9

B

Urban Planning

HT166

B

Urban-rural Migration

HB1956;HT381

B

Social Policy

  

Income Protection; Social Insurance

HD7088-HD7252

A

Immigration

HV4005-HV4013

B

Labor Market

HN65

C

Disability

HV1568

A

Housing

HD7287.3

A

Corrections

HV9950-HV9960

B

Taxation

HJ2240-HJ3192.7

B

Globalization

JZ1318; HN18

B

Nation State

JC507

B

Social Psychology

  

Attitudes, Opinions

BF327;HM1181

C

Culture

GN502

B

Group Interaction

HM716; HM711; -HM753

C

Leadership

HM1261-HM1263

D

Role Behaviour

BF697

D

Social Perception

HM251; HM131

D

Social Stratification

HM821

C

Social Work Clinical Practice and Research

  

Evidence Based Practice

HV40

B

Anti-oppression Approaches (i.e. Anti-racist; Feminist)

HQ1190; HV41;HT1521

A

Theoretical and Clinical Approaches to Social Work Practice

HV689;HV43

A

Individual, Family, Group Practice

HV697; HV40-HM40.35

A

Social Work Education and Training

  

History of the Profession

HV91

B

Teaching Practices; Placement/Practicum Issues

HV11-HV11.8; HV40-HV41

A

International Practice

HV544.5

B

Related programs and support

Consortial purchases with the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (Guelph, Waterloo, Laurier university libraries), with the Ontario Council of University Libraries, and on a national level, are pursued.