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Libraries Strive to Keep Pace with Family Structures

This article enumerates the efforts of school libraries to keep pace with the ever changing trends in the family structures. Family structures are consistently being comprised of single parents raising kids without the help of male counterpart, interracial marriages, people that live together without marrying each other and gays as well as lesbians raising kids. Thus, it is important for school libraries to identify these trends and help in fostering the sense belonging among the students.

School Libraries Strive to Keep Pace With New Family Structures

There has been increased changes in family trends as reported by the Pew Research center. Family structures are continually being comprised of single parents raising kids without the help of male counterpart, interracial marriages, people that live together without marrying each other and gays as well as lesbians raising kids. As a result, there exist a need for libraries to get books that show relation to the family situations as well as backgrounds.

Libraries aim to attend to urgent student needs

Beside, one of the main aims of school libraries is to be able to attract attention with regard to urgency of student concerns. Dr. Valerie Maholmes is the author of Fostering Resilience and Well-being in children and pertinent in poverty: Why Hope Still Matter? He states that research in recent times points out to students from the non-traditional families as having difficulties in the bid to make friends, better school performance as well as may be fighting with health issues.

Collaboration Among the Stakeholders

Additionally, Maholmes says that the leaders of education as well as academics have the mandate towards the provision of workshops, avail data and allow it easily accessible to librarians to enhance in informing their activities of book selection. Thus, it is important for administrators, parents, librarians, state education boards as well as school officials to collaborate towards the acquisition of latest e-books and prints for the schools’ libraries.

Updating Book Collections

It is important for libraries to keep updates of recent of their book collections despite the tight budget. Regarding this, books on non-traditional families should be updated to ensure students from these family structures are well represented. As a result, it lead to increased sense of belonging as well as feeling of acknowledgement from their schools.

Although a great number of school libraries welcomes a real-time check on the inventories of books, being on the frontline for social change can be challenging for others. Despite this, school libraries should try to be in the frontline to spearhead the acknowledgement of these changes in family structures.

Author Bio:

Bella Liam the Author of this article. She is a renowned article writer for the National Education Association ally NEA. I work for an essay writing company from five years. and now i am the Sr. Writer in my company. You can also follow her at different social networks like Facebook, G+ and Twitter.

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