On the Front Lines: Serving Ohio's Best

Veteran Views of the Library: A Qualitative Study

“…Atwood et al's article details how the state of Ohio's academic libraries are serving veterans through a discussion of the experiences of each of the article's authors as they highlight their individual outreach projects towards veterans. 6 Roy et al took a broader view by examining outreach efforts towards veterans through searching the websites of public libraries state by state throughout the United States. 7 The researchers then listed each individual outreach initiative.…”

Supporting Our Troops: Library Services and Support for Veterans

“…Some libraries with a significant population of active duty service member students have developed strategies for supporting these students, such as embedding in Blackboard or partnering with a local military base to develop joint programming (Landers & Youngman, 2009;Whited & Frederick, 2015). Other academic library efforts include developing or participating in orientation sessions for veterans, embedding in programs such as the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans, developing veteran-oriented displays and programs, and building veteran-oriented collections (Atwood et al, 2016;Hudson, 2016;Hoppenfeld, Wyckoff, Henson, Mayotte, & Kirkwood, 2013;LeMire, 2015;Sopiarz, 2016).…”

“…Librarians have begun presenting about their efforts to support veteran and military-affiliated populations at conferences such as the American Library Association Annual Conference, Public Library Association Annual Conference, Association of College and Research Libraries Conference, and Texas Library Association Annual Conference (Blansett & Blansett, 2012;Fawley & Krysak, 2013;LeMire, 2015;LeMire, 2017;Roy, Mulvihill, Rickard, Taft, & Olney, 2016;Tinoco & Hoppenfeld, 2015). Other librarians have written up their efforts in journals such as Public Libraries, Reference Services Review, and Journal of Academic Librarianship (Atwood et al, 2016;Mills, Paladino, & Klentzin, 2015;Taft & Olney, 2014). However, there is little research that has examined the approaches employed across multiple types of libraries to respond to veteran and military-affiliated patrons.…”

Student Veteran Engineers and Academic Libraries: A Review of Recent Literature

“…• Establish a network among other campus academic/student services departments and form a discussion or interest group [19][20]. • Circulate mobile devices that are programmed with apps specific to the academic and personal needs of student veterans.…”

“…• Organize library staff development programs that describe and celebrate student veteran diversity [19]. • Collaborate with veterans to create an oral history project or special exhibits [20][21].…”