Social Inclusion for Older People Through Library Services

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.34How to use a DOI?

Keywords

social inclusion, library services, older people, inclusive library

Abstract

Social inclusion becomes a global issue as people’s awareness of equality increases. The growth of international interest to inclusion is a result of globalization, liberalization, and democratization. United Nation promotes the issue on inclusion through the agenda of 2030 Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) consisting of 17 goals. Goal 10 states the need to authorize and raise the social, economic and political inclusion of all, without considering age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status. This aim calls people to actively participate and prepare agenda to implement that goal. One of key issues we may address is about older people. Older people are at risk of being in social exclusion due to their decreasing ability to be more actively involved in social activities for some reasons, such as health problem. In some cases, older people do not either have adequate access for various information (Digital divide). This limited information access may lead to the misunderstanding the global issues they receive and even worsen their quality of life. On the other hand, they have opportunity to be active aging persons when they have good quality of life. This study focused on social inclusion of older people through library services. It made of the library method by investigating some documents related to the social inclusion and the role of library for the community. The data were qualitatively analyzed to find the basic concepts or insights to answer research problem. The study revealed that the library has a mandate to serve people with providing information access regardless of religion, language, race, gender, disability and age. The library played an important role by inviting older people to participate actively in social spaces developed by the library. The library provides collections, services and facilities for all types of users as regulated in standards developed by library associations.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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